Dictionary of Bible Themes Dictionary of Bible Themes » 7000 God's people » 7300 Institutions and culture of OT » 7350 drink offering 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 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 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 Of devotion and sacrifice Philippians 2:17 See also 2 Samuel 23:15-17; 2 Timothy 4:6-8 See also
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