Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Numbers 8:4
Of beaten gold — Not hollow, but solid gold, beaten out of one piece, not of several pieces joined or soldered together.
Of beaten gold — Not hollow, but solid gold, beaten out of one piece, not of several pieces joined or soldered together.
Verse Numbers 8:4. _THIS WORK OF THE CANDLESTICK, C._] See many curious particulars relative to this candlestick, See Clarke on Ex 25:31 and _"_Exodus 25:39_"_. The _candlestick_ itself was an emblem...
The actual lighting of the lamps (compare the marginal references) was to be done to set forth symbolically the special presence which God had now Numbers 7:89 actually established among His people....
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...
DIRECTIONS RELATING TO THE CANDLESTICK. An account of the candlestick (really a lampstand) is contained in Exodus 25:31 *. NUMBERS 8:2. LIGHTEST: render as in _mg._ (and so in Numbers 8:3). give ligh...
UNTO. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Onkelos Manuscript, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "and unto"....
_beaten work Repoussé_work, hammered out of a solid plate of gold (Exodus 25:31; Exodus 25:36; Exodus 37:17-22). This work was employed also for the Cherubim ...
_The Lampstand_ The golden lampstand (not -candlestick" E.VV. [Note:.VV. The English Versions, i.e. Authorised and Revised.]) stood in the Holy Place, on the south side, i.e. on the left of one enter...
IX. ASSORTED LAWS AND INSTRUCTIONS (NUMBERS 8; NUMBERS 9; NUMBERS 10:1-10) A. ON LIGHTING THE LAMPS IN THE TABERNACLE vv. 1-4 TEXT Numbers 8:1-4.
_AND AARON DID SO; HE LIGHTED THE LAMPS THEREOF OVER AGAINST THE CANDLESTICK, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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
AND THIS WORK OF THE CANDLESTICK... — Better, _And this was the work of the candlestick, i.e.,_ the material of which it was made. BEATEN GOLD. — Better, _turned_ (or _twisted_)_ gold._ UNTO THE SHAF...
וְ זֶ֨ה מַעֲשֵׂ֤ה הַ מְּנֹרָה֙ מִקְשָׁ֣ה זָהָ
2. THE CANDELABRUM Numbers 8:1 The seven-branched candlestick with its lamps stood in the outer chamber of the tabernacle into which the priests had frequently to go. When the curtain at the entrance...
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...
And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: (b) according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made t...
What a beautiful though short description, is given of the candlestick; namely, of beaten gold: intimating most probably, the GODHEAD and glory of Him, who is as the church describes him in himself, a...
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 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...
AND THIS WORK OF THE CANDLESTICK [WAS] OF BEATEN GOLD,.... As it is also said to be; Exodus 25:31; and Exodus 25:36: UNTO THE SHALT THEREOF, UNTO THE FLOWERS THEREOF, [WAS] BEATEN WORK; of which, se...
And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the c...
_Of beaten gold_ Not hollow, but solid gold, beaten out of one piece, not of several pieces joined or soldered together....
[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...
And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, of fine chased work, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work, Exodus 25:31; according unto the pattern which the Lord had...
THE LIGHTING OF THE SANCTUARY LAMPS...
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...
1-4 Aaron himself lighted the lamps, thus representing his Divine Master. The Scripture is a light shining in a dark place, 2 Peter 1:19. A dark place even the church would be without it; as the tabe...
BEATEN GOLD, not hollow, but solid and massive gold, beaten out of one piece, and not of several pieces joined or soldered together. See EXODUS 25:18,31 EXODUS 37:17....
"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 8:4 workmanship H4639 lampstand H4501 hammered H4749 gold H2091 shaft H3409 flowers H6525 work H4749 pattern...
CHAPTER 8 YAHWEH'S FURTHER RESPONSE. The One represented by the Voice now set aside three things in order to manifest Himself to His people, the lampstand, the Levites and the Passover. The lampstand...
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...
_When thou lightest the lamps._ THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK AN EMBLEM OF THE CHURCH OF GOD I. The preciousness and sacredness of the church of God. II. The light of the church of God. III. The minister...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:1__ The lampstand is described more fully in Exodus 25:31. Its construction is explained in...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...
EXPOSITION THE LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS (Numbers 8:1). NUMBERS 8:1 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. It does not appear when. The attempt of modern commentators to find a real connection be
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 28:11; Exodus 25:18; Exodus 25:31; Exodus 25:40;...