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Exodus 30:8

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Exodus 30:8

Theological / Devotional

Perpetual incense. Incense was to be offered twice daily, at the hours of morning and evening prayer (Ex. 30:7, 8). The altar of incense represented continual intercession in the same way that the altar of burnt offering represented continual atonement (PP 353).

There is, however, no clear statement as to whether incense was burning continuously upon this altar “before the vail,” though the implication that it was is strong (PP 348). Its “continual” burning teaches us that day by day we are to come before the Lord in prayer (Ps. 16:8; 55:17; 1 Thess. 5:17, 18; PP 354). We are to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17).

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