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
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
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