Dictionary of Bible Themes: 7364 fellowship offering

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Dictionary of Bible Themes

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Sacrificial meals shared by offerer, people and priests. The name of these offerings is related to the Hebrew "shalom", meaning "wholeness" or "peace", and they are therefore also known as "peace offerings".

Fellowship offerings were required by God

Exodus 20:24
Leviticus 7:11-18

Their purpose was thanksgiving, vow fulfilment or freewill offering

Leviticus 3:1,6,12

Regulations for making a fellowship offering

The animal

Leviticus 3:2,8,13; 17:5-6

Its slaughter

Leviticus 19:5; 22:21
Joshua 22:29

All requirements must be fulfilled for the offering to be acceptable

Amos 5:22,24

A right attitude:

Leviticus 3:3-5,9-11,14-16

The fellowship offering was shared

God received the best

Leviticus 7:29-34

The priests received their share as food

Leviticus 10:14

The people ate the rest

Exodus 20:24; 24:4-6

Fellowship offerings affirmed the covenant relationship

Joshua 8:31-32

The Sinai covenant with Israel:

1 Samuel 10:8; 11:15
1 Kings 9:25

God's covenant with the king:

Leviticus 23:19

The celebration of fellowship offerings

At seasonal festivals

Numbers 29:39

the Feast of Weeks

the Feast of Tabernacles

Numbers 6:14,17-18

On other religious and national occasions

Numbers 10:10

At the completion of the time of separation of a Nazirite:

Numbers 7:17,23,29

at New Moons and other festivals

Numbers chapter 7 contains many examples of the offerings made at the dedication of the tabernacle:

Numbers 15:8
Deuteronomy 27:7

On entering the promised land:

2 Samuel 6:17-18
2 Samuel 24:25

on bringing the ark to Jerusalem

1 Kings 8:63-64

on locating the site for the temple

pp 2Ch 7:7

2 Chronicles 29:35; 30:22; 31:2; 33:16

at the dedication of the temple

Proverbs 7:14

Re-establishing the ordinances of the temple:

Ezekiel 45:15,17; 46:2,12

Ezekiel's vision of the restored temple includes the re-establishing of offerings:

Exodus 32:6

Fellowship offerings in idolatrous worship