Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 1:51
The stranger elsewhere is one of another nation, here one of another tribe, one no Levite. That cometh nigh, so as to do the offices mentioned Numbers 1:50.
The stranger elsewhere is one of another nation, here one of another tribe, one no Levite. That cometh nigh, so as to do the offices mentioned Numbers 1:50.
When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for se...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY 1. The People Numbered CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 1:1)_ 2. The appointed helpers for the work (Numbers 1:5) 3. The...
PUT TO DEATH. Probably by Jehovah. Compare 1 Chronicles 13:10....
The Levites were not to be numbered as fighting men, but were assigned other duties on the march. These duties are stated more fully in chs. 3, 4....
_the stranger_ Not a -foreigner," but one who does not belong to the particular class mentioned in the context here and in Numbers 18:4, the Levites; in Numbers 3:10; Numbers 3:38;...
III. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 1:47-54) TEXT Numbers 1:47. But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48. For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, sa...
_BUT THE LEVITES AFTER THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHERS WERE NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM._ But the Levites ... were not numbered. They were obliged to keep a register of their own. They were consecrated to the...
STRANGER] here one who is not a Levite: cp. Numbers 3:10 and Exodus 29:33....
THE FIRST NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE At Sinai Moses receives the command to take the number of the males over twenty years of age in the eleven secular tribes, the tribe of Levi being enumerated separate...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF NUMBERS The first 5 books in the Bible are called the ‘5 Books of Moses’. The Book of Numbers is the 4th...
AND THE STRANGER THAT COMETH NIGH SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH. — The word _zar_ (stranger) here denotes one who was not of the tribe of Levi (Leviticus 22:10; Leviticus 22:12)....
וּ בִ נְסֹ֣עַ הַ מִּשְׁכָּ֗ן יֹורִ֤ידוּ אֹתֹו
2. THE TRIBE OF LEVI Numbers 1:47 The tribe of Levi is not numbered with the rest. No warlike service, no half-shekel for the sanctuary, is to be exacted from the Levite. His contribution to the gene...
NUMBERED FOR WAR; SET APART FOR WORSHIP Numbers 1:1 This book records two numberings of the host; the first, at Sinai; and the second, thirty-eight years after, on the threshold of Canaan. It is als...
The Book of Numbers deals with the wilderness. It is the story of a long discipline resulting from disobedience. History moves forward, for God ever protects His own purposes from the failure of His c...
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the (h) stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to de...
_Stranger, even of any other tribe. (St. Augustine, q. 3.) (Worthington)_...
The separation of the Levites had certainly some very important signification. Perhaps to manifest the distinguishing tokens of grace. And it is probable, that it meant to show, that as in profession...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. The first thing to be noticed is, that God numbers His people exactly, and arranges them, once thus recognised, around His tabernacle: sweet thought,...
AND WHEN THE TABERNACLE SETTETH FORWARD,.... Or was about to set forward; that is, the congregation were about to journey, and take the tabernacle with them, as they always did, when and wherever they...
_The tabernacle of testimony_ So called here, and Exodus 38:21, because it was made chiefly for the sake of the ark of the testimony, which is often called _the testimony._ The _stranger_ elsewhere is...
1 God commaundeth Moses to number the people. 5 The Princes of the Tribes. 17 The number of euery Tribe. 47 The Leuites are exempted for the Seruice of the Lord. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses in...
The Levites Set Aside for God's Service....
And when the Tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down, for it was constructed with this object in mind; AND WHEN THE TABERNACLE IS TO BE PITCHED, THE LEVITES SHALL SET IT UP; AND THE...
THE FIRST CENSUS OF ISRAEL (vs.1-46) After Israel's leaving Egypt, over a year passed before we read of this census being taken. In David's time, when he determined to number the people (2 Samuel 24:...
47-54 Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular services shall be recompensed by singular honours. It was to the...
& Numbers 2:1-34. We now enter upon the study of the fourth grand division of the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses; and we shall find the leading characteristic of this book quite as strongly marked...
Numbers 1:51 tabernacle H4908 forward H5265 (H8800) Levites H3881 down H3381 (H8686) tabernacle H4908 up H2583 ...
THE LEVITES' RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DWELLINGPLACE (NUMBERS 1:47). Numbers 1:47 ‘But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.' But the Levites were not numbered amon...
CONTENTS: Moses commanded to take census. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The Lord knows all those that are His (2 Timothy 2:19) by name (Php_4:3) and even the hairs of their heads are nu...
Numbers 1:2. _Take ye the sum._ The Israelites had been numbered, for the purpose of subscribing half a shekel towards the erection of the tabernacle. Now they are numbered for war; and were afterward...
_The Levites. .. were not numbered._ THE LEVITES AND THEIR SERVICE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY The Levites were exempted from military service, and set apart for the service of the tab...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:47__ The LEVITES, the priestly tribe, were not included in the census because they were responsible for the TABERNACLE, the most vital part of the whole camp. They dismantled...
THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE (_Numbers 1:1_) “The object of the encampment at Sinai,” says Perowne, “has been accomplished. The Covenant has been made, the Law given, the Sanctuary set up, the Priests...
EXPOSITION THE LEVITES (Numbers 1:47-4). NUMBERS 1:47 NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM. They _were _numbered (Numbers 3:39)
This time lets turn to the book of Numbers, so called because twice in the book the children of Israel were numbered. Once at the beginning of their forty years of wandering in the wilderness and then...
1 Samuel 6:19; 2 Samuel 6:7; Leviticus 22:10; Numbers 10:11;...
That cometh nigh — The stranger elsewhere is one of another nation, here one of another tribe. So as to do the offices mentioned, Numbers 1:50....