THE INIQUITY OF THE SANCTUARY - i. e. the guilt of the offences which
an erring people would be continually committing against the majesty
of God, when brought into contact, through the ordinances, with the
manifestations of His presence. Compare the marginal reference.
THE INIQUITY OF YOUR PRIESTH... [ Continue Reading ]
A STRANGER - i. e. every one not a Levite. So in Numbers 18:7, it
denotes each one who was not a priest: compare Numbers 3:10; Numbers
16:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord instructs here the priests that the office which they fill,
and the help which they enjoy, are gifts from Him, and are to be
viewed as such.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY REASON OF THE ANOINTING - See Leviticus 7:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE - Rather, “among the most holy things;” as
in Numbers 4:4 : i. e. “As the most holy of things shalt thou eat
it.” Accordingly, only the males of the priestly families could eat
of the things here specified.... [ Continue Reading ]
SURELY REDEEM ... REDEEM - A stronger expression is intentionally used
in reference to the redemption of the first-born of man than in
reference to that of unclean beasts. For the rule as to the former
admitted of no exception: the owner of the latter, if unwilling to
redeem, might destroy the beast... [ Continue Reading ]
A COVENANT OF SALT - Compare the marginal reference. covenants were
ordinarily cemented in the East by the rites of hospitality; of which
salt was the obvious token, entering as it does into every article of
diet. It indicates perpetuity: compare Leviticus 2:13 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THY PART AND THINE INHERITANCE - Compare the marginal references.... [ Continue Reading ]
Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek: Jacob had promised the tithe of
all wherewith God blessed him if he should return in peace to his
father’s house. But now first the Lord’s tithes are assigned to
the Levites for their support (compare Leviticus 27:30). The payment
of tithes to them is recognized i... [ Continue Reading ]
BEAR THEIR INIQUITY - The words probably refer to the iniquity of the
people; who would, had they approached the tabernacle have fallen,
from their proneness to transgress, into overt acts of offence.
Against such a result they were, through the ministrations of the
Levites, mercifully protected. Co... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the tithes (and in Numbers 18:26 the priestly tithes) are to be
dedicated to their purpose by the ceremony of heaving them to the
Lord. The tithes, being solemnly set apart for sacred purposes, became
virtually a heave-offering, like the gifts for the tabernacle Exodus
25:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
RECKONED UNTO YOU - Or, by you. The Levites were, of their tithes, to
pay tithe to the priests, just as other Israelites paid tithe to the
Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF ALL YOUR GIFTS - The spirit of this law would extend to all the
revenues of the Levites; of the increase of their cattle, as well as
of their tithes, a tithe would be paid by them for the Lord’s
service.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SHALL YE POLLUTE ... - Rather, and by not polluting the holy
things of the children of Israel, ye shall not die.... [ Continue Reading ]