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 years.] See Trapp on " Num 4:30 "
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....
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
_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...
FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD— See the note on ch. Numbers 4:3....
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...
_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:_ From twenty-five years old ......
8:24 labour (a-18) See ch. 4.23....
TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS] see on Numbers 4:3....
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
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...
זֹ֖את אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַ † לְוִיִּ֑ם מִ בֶּן֩...
This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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 AGE AT WHICH THE LEVITES SERVED...
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...
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...
FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD. SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 4:3"....
"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 8:24 Levites H3881 twenty-five H6242 H2568 years H8141 old H1121 above H4605 enter H935 (H8799) service...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
1 Chronicles 23:24; 1 Chronicles 23:3; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:13;...