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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...
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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...
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TABLE OF SHEWBREAD. See Exodus 25:30 and Leviticus 24:6.
DISHES. In ch App-4 rendered "charger" throughout.
SPOONS. dishes.
BOWLS. pans.
COVERS. bowls.
TO COVER. to pour. continual. Compare...
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_shewbread_ PRESENCE-BREAD, i.e. bread that is placed in the divine
Presence. 1 Samuel 21:6 is evidence that the practice was observed in
early times. It was probably a relic of the primitive heathen...
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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...
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The Kohathites and their duties....
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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...
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_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...
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THE CONTINUAL BREAD] i.e. the shewbread: see on Leviticus 24:5....
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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...
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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
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AND COVERS TO COVER WITHAL. — Better, _and the cups for the
drink-offering_ (or _libation_).
AND THE CONTINUAL BREAD. — The shew-bread is so called because it
was renewed every Sabbath day, and was co...
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וְ עַ֣ל ׀ שֻׁלְחַ֣ן הַ פָּנִ֗ים
יִפְרְשׂוּ֮ ב
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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...
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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...
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And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and
put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to
cover (d) withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:...
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_Loaves. Some imagine this precept was not observed in the desert, as
the people fed on manna. But might not they procure some flour of the
neighbouring nations? and do not the princes offer flour, ch...
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Was not this continual bread typical of JESUS? John 6:51....
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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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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...
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AND UPON THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD THEY SHALL SPREAD A CLOTH OF BLUE,....
That that also might not be seen nor touched by the Levites:
AND PUT THEREON THE DISHES, AND THE SPOONS, AND THE BOWLS, AND THE...
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_The dishes_ Upon which the show-bread was put. _Continual bread_ So
called because it was continually to be there, even in the wilderness;
where, though they had only manna for themselves, yet they r...
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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...
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And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, as
in the case of the ark, to distinguish it in a similar manner, AND PUT
THEREON THE DISHES, the large bowls, AND THE SPOONS, AND TH...
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THE WORK OF THE KOHATHITES...
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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...
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COVER WITHALL:
Or, pour out withal...
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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...
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OF SHEW-BREAD, Heb. _of faces or presence_, for of the bread of faces
or presence, i.e. of the bread which was continually standing in the
presence of the Lord. THE DISHES, upon which the shew-bread w...
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Numbers 4:7 table H7979 showbread H6440 spread H6566 (H8799) blue
H8504 cloth H899 put H5414 (H8804) dishes...
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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 ...
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SHEWBREAD
(_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 25:30). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Exodus 25:23; Exodus 37:10; Leviticus 24:5...