Resultados para: "Kettle"

<p>they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance--(See Exo 12:7-9). This mode of preparation was prescribed by the law exclusively for the paschal lamb; the other offerings and thank offerings were cooked in pots, kettles, and pans (Sa1 2:14).

divided them speedily among the people--The haste was either owing to the multiplicity of the priests&#039; business, or because the heat and flavor of the viands would have been otherwise diminished. Hence it appears that the meal consisted not of the paschal lambs alone, but of the meat of the thank offerings--for part of the flesh fell to the portion of the offerer, who, being in this instance, the king and the princes, were by them made over to the people, who were recommended to eat them the day they were offered, though not absolutely forbidden to do so on the next (Lev 7:15-18).</p>

<p>Music was common at ancient feasts (Isa 24:8-9; Amo 6:5-6).

viol--an instrument with twelve strings [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 8.10].

tabret--Hebrew, toph, from the use of which in drowning the cries of children sacrificed to Moloch, Tophet received its name. Arabic, duf. A kettle drum, or tambourine.

pipe--flute or flageolet: from a Hebrew root &quot;to bore through&quot;; or else, &quot;to dance&quot; (compare Job 21:11-15).

regard not . . . Lord--a frequent effect of feasting (Job 1:5; Psa 28:5).

work . . . operation--in punishing the guilty (Isa 5:19; Isa 10:12).</p>

<p>Enflaming yourselves--burning with lust towards idols [GESENIUS]; or else (compare Margin), in the terebinth groves, which the Hebrew and the parallelism favor (see on Isa 1:29) [MAURER].

under . . . tree-- (Kg2 17:10). The tree, as in the Assyrian sculptures, was probably made an idolatrous symbol of the heavenly hosts.

slaying . . . children--as a sacrifice to Molech, &amp;c. (Kg2 17:31; Ch2 28:3; Ch2 33:6).

in . . . valleys--the valley of the son of Hinnom. Fire was put within a hollow brazen statue, and the child was put in his heated arms; kettle drums (Hebrew, toph) were beaten to drown the child&#039;s cries; whence the valley was called Tophet (Ch2 33:6; Jer 7:3).

under . . . clifts--the gloom of caverns suiting their dark superstitions.</p>