Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 8:6
Or, wash or purify them, which was also done with the priests and others when they were to approach to God and his service. See Exodus 19:10,14 Le 14:9.
Or, wash or purify them, which was also done with the priests and others when they were to approach to God and his service. See Exodus 19:10,14 Le 14:9.
The Levites could only undertake their duties Numbers 3; Numbers 4 after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-born Numbers 3:44. The distinction between the “consecration” of the pr
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...
THE PURIFICATION OF THE LEVITES. This differed from that of the priests (Exodus 29, Leviticus 8), for the Levites (_a)_ were only sprinkled with water instead of being washed altogether and anointed w...
CHILDREN. sons....
_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...
B. CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES FOR SERVICE vv. 5-22 TEXT Numbers 8:5. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6. Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7. And thus shalt...
_TAKE THE LEVITES FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND CLEANSE THEM._ Take the Levites ... and cleanse them. This passage describes the consecration of the Levites. Although the tribe was to be dev...
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...
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
קַ֚ח אֶת ־הַ לְוִיִּ֔ם מִ תֹּ֖וךְ בְּנֵ֣י
This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....
LIGHTS IN GOD'S HOUSE; CLEAN WORKMEN Numbers 8:1 It is strange to come on this paragraph about the candlestick amid the preparations for leaving Sinai. But typically it is appropriate, because the p...
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...
The Levites were before appointed to this service, and here is the form of their ordination. See Numbers 3:6, etc. But let the Reader remark with me, the gospel feature strongly pointed out. The Levit...
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...
6._Take the Levites from among. _To take them from among the children of Israel, is equivalent to subtracting them from the number of the people, that they might not be included in the general _census...
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...
TAKE THE LEVITES FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Among whom they were mixed, as were all the tribes mixed together as Aben Ezra says, before they took their journey from Mount Sinai; however, f...
[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...
THE PURIFYING OF THE LEVITES...
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. This was done in order to take from them any Levitical defilement and to set them apart as a body of servants for the ministry of...
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...
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...
"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...
Numbers 8:6 Take H3947 (H8798) Levites H3881 among H8432 children H1121 Israel H3478 cleanse H2891 (H8765)...
THE DEDICATION OF THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 8:5). The voice has spoken to Moses, Yahweh's chosen; the light, lit by Aaron and his sons, Yahweh's chosen, shines on the bread that symbolises Yahweh's people;...
Numbers 8:5. _And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them._ These men were to be the servants of God; they are the type of God's elect,...
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...
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...
_Take the Levites and cleanse them._ THE DIVINE PRINCIPLE OF CLEANSING Here we have, in type, the only Divine principle of cleansing. It is the application of death to nature and all its habits. It i...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:5__ The Levites took the place of the firstborn Israelites (vv. Numbers 8:16). Their cleansing made them fit to be offered to God. The leaders then laid hands on them, symbol
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:1; Exodus 19:15; James 4:8...