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You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
(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…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall offer no strange incense. —By “strange incense” is meant any that was composed differently from that w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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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…
