Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The feasts - literally, the appointed times. So in Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:37, etc. This section Lev. 23:1-38 sets forth for practical guidance the relation in which the appointed times of the Lord, weekly as well as annual, stood to the ordinary occupations of the people.
Holy convocations - Days of sabbatical rest for the whole people; they owed their name to gatherings for religious edification, which, in later times, were probably held in every town and village in the holy land. There were in the course of the year, besides the weekly Sabbaths, seven days of holy convocation Exodus 12:16; Numbers 28:18, Numbers 28:25-26; Numbers 29:1, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:35, with a distinction between them as regards strictness of observance (compare Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:28 with Leviticus 23:7).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Leviticus 23:2:
Exodus 12:16
Leviticus 23:44
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
Psalms 74:8
Psalms 102:13
Isaiah 4:5
Lamentations 1:12-16
Daniel 7:23-27
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