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Worship on God's Terms
Commentators explain that the strict prohibition against "strange incense" or other sacrifices on this altar reveals that God is specific about how He is to be approached. Everything in worship had its proper place and order. This reminds believers that true worship is not self-designed but is an obedient response to God's revealed will.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 30:1–10
18th Century
Theologian
(Exodus 37:25–28; Exodus 40:26–27). The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood ([Reference Exodus 25…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 30:9
19th Century
Bishop
You shall offer no strange incense. —By “strange incense” is meant any that was composed differently from that w…
John Gill
On Exodus 30:9
17th Century
Pastor
You shall offer no strange incense on it
Which had not the same, but was made of other materials, or had more or few…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 30:1–10
17th Century
Minister
The altar of incense represented the Son of God in his human nature, and the incense burned on it typified his pleading for his people. The continu…