Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes—for the showbread, as previously appointed (Exodus 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (I Chronicles 9:32; I Chronicles 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Leviticus 2:13).
two tenth deals—that is, of an ephah—thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was strewed, which, being burnt, led to the showbread being called "an offering made by fire." Every Sabbath a fresh supply was furnished; hot loaves were placed on the altar instead of the stale ones, which, having lain a week, were removed, and eaten only by the priests, except in cases of necessity (I Samuel 21:3-6; also Luke 6:3-4).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Leviticus 24:5:
Matthew 12:5
1 Corinthians 11:26
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