Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 20:3

"Remember all thy offerings, And accept thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah" — Psalms 20:3 (ASV)

All your offerings. —The king is sacrificing according to custom before battle (1 Samuel 13:9). This includes the burnt offering (ôlah, from a root meaning “to go up,” i.e., referring to the smoke) and the bloodless offering (minchah, from a root meaning “to portion out”) of fine flour .

The word translated in our version as memorial (Leviticus 24:7), which is a derivative of the verb translated here as “remember,” has been shown by eminent scholars to mean “incense.” Therefore, we may believe the psalmist meant—

“Accept the incense of all your minchah,
And the fat of your ôlah”

Indeed, Mr. Burgess would translate this as “smell” and “relish.”

Accept. —Literally, make fat (Psalms 23:5, anointest); i.e., regard or receive as a fat or worthy offering. The objection to the alternative translation, “turn to ashes,” i.e., “consume” (Leviticus 9:24; 1 Kings 18:38), is that the Hebrew word never elsewhere has that sense, but only that of “cleansing from ashes.”