Related commentaries – Sacrifice

The Altar of Burnt Offering – Exodus 27:1 – 27:21

The Mother Who Gave The Ultimate Sacrifice - David Lloyd George

Many years ago, a young mother was making her way on foot across the hills of South Wales, carrying her infant son. A blinding blizzard overtook the pair, and the mother never reached her destination. Searchers found her lifeless body, with the baby snuggled beneath her, warm and alive. She had wrapped her outer clothing and scarf around the boy and then covered him with her own body. That baby grew up to be David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister and one of England’s greatest statesmen. (Today in the Word, January, 1998, p. 10).