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Verse Numbers 8:24. _FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD_] Numbers 4:3,
where the two terms of twenty-five and thirty years are reconciled....
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TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD - The permanent limit as
distinguished from the temporary Numbers 4:3, Numbers 4:23, Numbers
4:30, though David found it necessary to extend the period of the
Levi...
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6. THE CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES
CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The lighting of the candlestick (Numbers 8:1)_
2. The consecration of the Levites (Numbers 8:5)
3. The charge to the Levites repeated (Numbers 8:2...
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THE AGE-LIMIT FOR THE LEVITES'SERVICE. The limits here given (25 and
50) differ from those fixed in ch. 4 (where they are 30 and 50).
NUMBERS 8:24. THIS IS THAT WHICH BELONGETH UNTO: read (Vulg.), T...
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TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD. This was the commencement of. five years'
probation. The age, thirty, was the age of their numbering. See note
on Numbers 4:3.
TO WAIT, &C. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (Ap...
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_The Levites_
Numbers 8:5. Their purification and dedication, Numbers 8:23. The age
of service. The passage is an expansion of Numbers 3:5-13, with the
addition of the rite of purification. The Levit...
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_that which belongeth unto the Levites_ An elliptical expression:
_that which_[_thou shall do_ WITH REGARD _to the Levites_.
_from twenty and five years old_ In Numbers 4:3 the age is from
_thirty ye...
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FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD— See the note on ch. Numbers 4:3....
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C. LIMITS OF AGE AND SERVICE FOR THE LEVITES vv. 23-26
TEXT
Numbers 8:23. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 24, This is it
that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and
upwa...
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8:24 labour (a-18) See ch. 4.23....
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THE LIGHTING OF THE GOLDEN LAMPS. THE CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES
1-4. See on Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 27:21.
5-26. This is the fulfilment of the injunetion in...
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TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS] see on Numbers 4:3....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 8
AARON SETS UP THE LAMPS – NUMBERS 8:1-4
V1 The *LORD said to Moses, V2 ‘Speak to Aaron. Give these instr
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FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. — This regulation may be
understood as referring to the age at which the Levites were to enter
upon their duties after the people had taken possession of the...
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זֹ֖את אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַ † לְוִיִּ֑ם מִ בֶּן֩...
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This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for
Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....
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CONSECRATED TO GOD'S SERVICE
Numbers 8:14
The Levites may be taken to represent the Church as distinguished from
the rest of mankind, or the little band of pastors, teachers, and
missionaries, set ap...
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Having recorded the acts of the princes in offering their substance,
the record proceeded to deal with the setting apart of the Levites as
the special order of men whose persons and time were to be gi...
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The age of twenty five, from whence this dedication to the LORD'S
service began, was meant no doubt, to point out the ripeness of age,
required for his sacred employment. The apostle hath given the li...
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It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without
feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And
this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
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24._This is it, that belongeth to the Levites. _The age is here
prescribed when the Levites should begin and end the execution of
their office. God commands them to commence in their 25th year and
gra...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8 AND 9.
Chapter 8 speaks of the candlestick. [1] The lamps were to make the
light shine from it, and cause that light to be diffused around and
before it. Th...
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THIS [IS IT] THAT [BELONGETH] UNTO THE LEVITES,.... The fixed and
settled time for their service, as is after related:
FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, THEY SHALL GO IN TO WAIT
UPON THE SER...
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This [is it] that [belongeth] unto the Levites: from twenty and five
years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
Ver. 24. _From twenty-five y...
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[THE CLEANSING THE LEUITES.]
1 How the lampes are to be lighted.
5 The consecration of the Leuites.
23 The age and time of their seruice.
1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying,
2 Speake vnto Aar...
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This is it that belongeth unto the Levites, this is the special
regulation fixing the age limit of the Levites: FROM TWENTY AND FIVE
YEARS OLD AND UPWARD THEY SHALL GO IN TO WAIT UPON THE SERVICE OF T...
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THE AGE AT WHICH THE LEVITES SERVED...
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THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LAMPS
(vs.1-4)
It may seem strange that this one subject of the lampstand and the
arranging of the lamps should be introduced in this place. But the
previous Chapter s have bee...
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5-26 Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the
Levites. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to
themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they
wer...
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FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD. SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 4:3"....
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"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and say unto
him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light
over against the candlestick. And Aaron did so; he lighted th...
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Numbers 8:24 Levites H3881 twenty-five H6242 H2568 years H8141 old
H1121 above H4605 enter H935 (H8799) service...
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LIMITS ON LEVITE MINISTRY (NUMBERS 8:23).
The soldiers of Israel commenced their responsibilities at twenty
years old, but the work of the Levites was so sacred that they had to
be more mature before...
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CONTENTS: Cleansing of the Levites for the ministry of the tabernacle.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron.
CONCLUSION: All Christians, and especially ministers, should cleanse
themselves from all filthin...
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Numbers 8:7. _Water of purifying,_ or _the water of sin,_ made with
the ashes of the red heifer. Numbers 19:9.
Numbers 8:19. _To do the service._ The great and awful work of
expiation belongs solely t...
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_The Levites; from twenty and five years._
SERVICE
I. The service God demands of all levites.
1. Burden-bearing.
2. Singing.
3. Study of the law, “Search the Scriptures.”
4. Attendance on the or...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:23__ At age 50 Levites were to retire from
THE DUTY OF THE SERVICE because carrying the tabernacle was too hard
for older men. They could continue as guards (vv....
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...
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EXPOSITION
THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 8:5-4).
NUMBERS 8:5
THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. At some time subsequent to the command
given in...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and say unto
him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps that shall give light
there in the candlestick. And so Aaron lighted the lamps of t...
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1 Chronicles 23:24; 1 Chronicles 23:3; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1
Chronicles 28:13;...