Dictionary of Bible Themes: 7364 fellowship offering

7364 fellowship offering

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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

See also

Exodus 20:24

Their purpose was thanksgiving, vow fulfilment or freewill offering

Leviticus 7:11-18

Regulations for making a fellowship offering

The animal

Leviticus 3:1,6,12

Its slaughter

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

All requirements must be fulfilled for the offering to be acceptable

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

A right attitude:

Amos 5:22,24

The fellowship offering was shared

God received the best

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

The priests received their share as food

Leviticus 7:29-34

The people ate the rest

Leviticus 10:14

Fellowship offerings affirmed the covenant relationship

The Sinai covenant with Israel:

Exodus 20:24; Exodus 24:4-6; Joshua 8:31-32

God's covenant with the king:

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

The celebration of fellowship offerings

At seasonal festivals

Leviticus 23:19 the Feast of Weeks; Numbers 29:39 the Feast of Tabernacles

On other religious and national occasions

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

Numbers 6:14,17-18 Numbers 10:10 at New Moons and other festivals

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

Numbers 7:17,23,29

On entering the promised land:

Numbers 15:8; Deuteronomy 27:7 2 Samuel 6:17-18 on bringing the ark to Jerusalem; 2 Samuel 24:25 on locating the site for the temple 1 Kings 8:63-64 pp 2 Chronicles 7:7 at the dedication of the temple

Re-establishing the ordinances of the temple:

2 Chronicles 29:35; 2 C 22; 2 C 2; 2 C 16 Proverbs 7:14

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

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

Fellowship offerings in idolatrous worship

Exodus 32:6