Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The very ancient Jewish tradition has been widely adopted that the sacred fire of the altar originated in this divine act, and that it was afterward preserved on the altar of the tabernacle until the dedication of the temple, when fire again "came down from heaven." II Chronicles 7:1. But according to the sacred narrative the altar-fire had been lighted in a natural way before this occasion. (Compare Leviticus 8:16; Leviticus 9:10, Leviticus 9:13, etc.; Exodus 40:29.) It would therefore seem that the fire which "came out from before the Lord" manifested itself, according to the words of Leviticus 9:24, not in kindling the fuel on the altar, but in the sudden consuming of the victim. For the like testimony to the acceptance of a sacrifice, see Judges 13:19-20; I Kings 18:38; I Chronicles 21:26, and probably Genesis 4:4. The phrase to turn a sacrifice to ashes, became equivalent to accepting it (Psalms 20:3, see the margin). The fire of the altar was maintained in accordance with Leviticus 6:13.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Leviticus 9:24
Leviticus 10:1
1 Kings 18:24
2 Chronicles 7:1
Psalms 84:2
Isaiah 6:6
Isaiah 12:6
Daniel 2:46
Hebrews 11:4
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