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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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AS. according as....
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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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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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_AND MOSES, AND AARON, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, DID TO THE LEVITES ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED
MOSES CONCERNING THE LEVITES, SO DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL UNT...
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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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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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וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּ
אמֹֽר
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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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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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AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... At the same time he gave the
instructions about the consecration of the Levites, the time of their
entrance on their service, and of leaving it, was fixed:
SAYING;...
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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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THE AGE AT WHICH THE LEVITES SERVED...
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,...
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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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"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 8:23 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8762) Moses H4872 saying H559
(H8800)...
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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...