Hitherto the levitical law had been chiefly conversant about holy persons, holy things, and holy places; in this chapter we have the institution of holy times, many of which had been mentioned occasionally before, but here they are all put together, only the new moons are not mentioned.

Here is, I. A general account of the holy times which God appointed , and it is only his appointment that can make time holy; for he is the Lord of time, and as soon as ever he had set its wheels a-going it was he that sanctified and blessed one day above the rest, Gen. 2:3.

Here again the feasts are called the feasts of the Lord, because he appointed them. Jeroboam’s feast, which he devised of his own heart , was an affront to God, and a reproach upon the people.

Here is the institution of the feast of pentecost, or weeks, as it is called , because it was observed fifty days, or seven weeks, after the passover. It is also called the feast of harvest, Ex. 23:16.

Here is, I. The institution of the feast of trumpets, on the first day of the seventh month, Lev. 23:24–25. That which was now the seventh month had been reckoned the first month, and the year of jubilee was still to begin with this month , so that this was their new year’s day.

We have here, I. The institution of the feast of tabernacles, which was one of the three great feasts at which all the males were bound to attend, and celebrated with more expressions of joy than any of them. 1.