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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Numbers 4:6

and shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, that of leather made from the skins of sea-cows, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, of costly hyacinth-colored material, and shall put in the staves thereof, in the rings applied to the corners for that purpose.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOLLY OF BLUE - Compare Exodus 25:4 note. The third and external covering of the ark only was to be of this color. The table of showbread had Numbers 4:8 an outer wrapping of scarlet; the altar Numbe...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 The Service of the Levites and their Numbering _ 1. The children of Kohath; their service (Numbers 4:1)_ 2. The sons of Gershon; their service (Numbers 4:21) 3. The sons of Merari; their...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A CENSUS OF THE LEVITES QUALIFIED TO SERVE ABOUT THE TABERNACLE, AND THE APPORTIONMENT OF THEIR DUTIES. This census includes all males between 30 and 50 (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 23:3). In Numbers 8:23 the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Kohathites and their duties....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    When finally ready for the march the burden of the Kohathites would be seen simply as six large packages as follows. (i) The _Ark_(Numbers 4:5 f.), covered with the -veil of the screen" (see on Number...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VI. MARCHING DUTIES ASSIGNED TO THE LEVITE FAMILIES (NUMBERS 4) A. THE KOHATHITES vv. 1-20 TEXT Numbers 4:1. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2. Take the sum of the sons of Levi, afte...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THIS SHALL BE THE SERVICE OF THE SONS OF KOHATH IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, ABOUT THE MOST HOLY THINGS:_ This shall be the service ... The Kohathites are mentioned first, from their close...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES ON THE MARCH 2. Kohath seems to have been the second son of Levi (Numbers 3:17), but his family is mentioned first, because Moses and Aaron belonged to it (Numbers 3:19 cp. E...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE DUTIES OF KOHATH’S *CLAN – NUMBERS 4:1-20 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, V2-3 ‘K

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND SHALL PUT IN THE STAVES THEREOF. — The staves had been removed whilst the Ark was being covered; otherwise they remained in their places (Exodus 25:15). (Comp. 2 Chronicles 5:9.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָתְנ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּסוּי֙ עֹ֣ור תַּ֔חַשׁ ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. LEVITICAL SERVICE Numbers 3:14; Numbers 4:1 The sacred service of the Levites is described in detail. There are three divisions, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites. The Gershonites, fr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Continuing the instructions concerning the Levites, we have a minute account of their work in connection with the movement and marching of the people. The family of Kohath were made responsible for ca...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in (c) the staves thereof. (c) That is, put them on their shoulders to carry it:...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Put in the bars. Hebrew, "place the bars," upon the shoulders of the Levites; for they were never taken out of the sides of the ark, Exodus xxv. 15. Other bars, like hand-barrows, were used to carry...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was not this continual bread typical of JESUS? John 6:51....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Next in order come the arrangements prescribed for the carrying of the things which the tabernacle contained, as well as their coverings, when the camp journeyed in the wilderness. I shall point out w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SHALL PUT THEREON THE COVERING OF BADGERS' SKINS,.... Not that which covered the tabernacle, for that was committed to the Gershonites, Numbers 4:25; but a covering made of these on purpose for th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They shall take down_ For upon this necessary occasion the inferior priests were allowed to come into the holy of holies, which otherwise was peculiar to the high-priest. _The covering veil_ The seco...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The age and time of the Leuites seruice. 4 The carriage of the Kohathites when the Priestes haue taken downe the Tabernacle. 16 The charge of Eleazar. 17 The office of the Priests. 21 The carria...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SERVICE OF THE KOHATHITES (vs.1-20) Moses and Aaron are instructed in verse 2 to take a census of the sons of Korath, those males 30 to 50 years of age. In verses 21-22 the same is said as to th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-20 The Kohathites were to carry the holy things of the tabernacle. All the holy things were to be covered; not only for security and respect, but to keep them from being seen. This not only marked t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By THE COVERING OF BADGERS SKINS the ark was secured from the injuries of the weather:. OBJECT. How could these staves be put in, when they were never to be taken out, EXODUS 25:15, compared with 1 KI...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 4:6 put H5414 (H8804) covering H3681 badger H8476 skins H5785 spread H6566 (H8804) over H4605 cloth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 4 THE TASKS OF THE LEVITES. In this chapter the special tasks allotted to the priests and to each of the sub-tribes of Levi are described, and the number of Levites between thirty and fifty ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Numbers 4:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,_ There were th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The service of the Kohathrites, Gershonites and Merarites. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: There is a service appointed to each of God's people in connection with His Church, an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 4:3. _Thirty years old._ We read in chap. 8., that the levites began to learn as is understood, at the age of twenty five. From 1 Chronicles 23., we learn that the census was taken at the age...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 4:1 Levites between 30 and 50 years old were responsible for moving the tabernacle from campsite to campsite. This chapter specifies what each Levitical clan must do (vv. Numbe...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Critical Notes.— Numbers 4:3. צָבָא, _host_, “signifies military service, and is used here with special reference to the service of the Levites as the _militia sacra_ of Jehovah.”—_Keil and Del_. Numb...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 4:1). NUMBERS 4:2 TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF KOHATH. The Levites having been separated from the other tribes, the Kohathites are now

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter four we find that from the tribe of Kohath the men that were to actually do the service of carrying and all, of course they numbered them from a month old upwards. It's obvious that lit...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:7; 1 Kings 8:8; Exodus 25:13; Exodus 35:19; Exodus 39:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Badgers — skins — Whereby the ark was secured from the injuries of the weather....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Were the staves to remain in the Ark or to be removed? PROBLEM: According to Exodus 25:15, “The poles shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.” But, in the Numbers passage i...

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