7350 drink offering
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A sacrificial offering of wine poured out at the foot of the altar, to accompany a burnt, fellowship or grain offering.

The drink offering was an ancient custom

Genesis 35:14

Drink offerings were proportionate to the size of animal sacrificed

See also

Numbers 15:5,7,10

Drink offerings were required on feasts and sacred days

As part of the daily offerings:

Exodus 29:41; Numbers 28:7-8 Leviticus 23:13 Firstfruits

Feast of Weeks:

Leviticus 23:18; Numbers 28:31

Feast of Tabernacles:

Leviticus 23:37; Numbers 29:30-31 Numbers 28:24 Passover; Numbers 28:9-10 Sabbath offerings; Numbers 28:14 monthly offerings; Numbers 29:6 Feast of Trumpets; Numbers 29:11 Day of Atonement

Occasions for making a drink offering

To accompany sacrifices for unintentional sins

Numbers 15:24

To mark special occasions

Numbers 6:17 after taking a Nazirite vow; 1 Chronicles 29:21 at the accession of a king; 2 Chronicles 29:35 during a religious reformation; Ezekiel 45:17 in Ezekiel's vision of restored worship

God's displeasure when drink offerings were poured out to idols

Jeremiah 7:18 See also Isaiah 57:6; Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Jeremiah 44:17-19,25; Ezekiel 20:28

Drink offerings as a symbol

Of restoration after a locust plague

Joel 2:13-14

Of devotion and sacrifice

Philippians 2:17 See also 2 Samuel 23:15-17; 2 Timothy 4:6-8

See also

4544  wine
7302  altar
7322  burnt offering
7364  fellowship offering
7368  grain offering



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