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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 16:37

Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron... — Aaron was shortly to be employed in an act of sacerdotal ministration and intercession, for which he would have become disqualified had he been ceremonially defiled by contact with things pertaining to the dead.

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See also Numbers 16:37 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 37. _THE CENSERS - ARE HALLOWED._] קדשו _kadeshu_, are _consecrated_, i. e., _to the service of God_ though in this instance improperly employed....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Aaron as High Priest and as one of those that offered incense Numbers 16:17, could not be defiled by going among the dead. The censers were not to be used again for censers, nor the coals on them for...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. THE REBELLION OF KORAH CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The rebellion of Korah (Numbers 16:1)_ 2. The punishment (Numbers 16:20) 3. Eleazar and his work (Numbers 16:36) 4. The murmuring of the whole

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NUMBERS 16. THE REBELLION OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM (JE and P). The narrative fuses together accounts of distinct revolts led by different individuals and inspired by different motives. The first ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BURNING. Hebrew. _saraph._ See App-43. e from among those that were burnt. THE FIRE. Compare Numbers 16:7, not accepted by Jehovah. HALLOWED. set apart. See note on "holy". Exodus 3:5...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _out of the burning_ From the heap of burnt corpses. _for they are holy_ These words probably belong to the next verse (see n. there). The fire-pans had previously been the private property of the 250...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. REVOLT AND PUNISHMENT OF KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM (NUMBERS 16:1-40) TEXT Numbers 16:1. Now Korah, the son if Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SPEAK UNTO ELEAZAR THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, THAT HE TAKE UP THE CENSERS OUT OF THE BURNING, AND SCATTER THOU THE FIRE YONDER; FOR THEY ARE HALLOWED._ Speak unto Eleazar. He was selected lest the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REBELLION OF KOKAH, DATHAN, ABIBAM, AND ON This incident is similar to that recorded in Numbers 12, and while it illustrates the difficulties Moses encountered in his leadership, owing to the jeal...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM OPPOSE MOSES – NUMBERS 16:1-35 V1-2 Korah, Izhar’s son, belonged to Levi’s *tri

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Numbers 17:2]_ אֱמֹ֨ר אֶל ־אֶלְעָזָ֜ר בֶּן ־אַהֲרֹ֣ן...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM Numbers 16:1; Numbers 17:1 BEHIND what appears in the history, there must have been many movements of thought and causes of discontent which gradually led to the events we n...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING” Numbers 16:36 The censers served as plates for the altar. Even evil men and evil things will be made to subserve the divine purposes. See Acts 2:23. What a wonderful...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the story of perhaps the strangest and most fully organized opposition that Moses had to encounter. Two elements were at work. The first was ambition and the second was dissatisfaction. Th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This may serve to teach us how jealous the LORD is of his honour. But chiefly no doubt, with an eye to the everlasting priesthood of JESUS, to point out its vast importance. Dearest LORD! be thou my h...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    37._Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron. _Since there is no manifestation of God’s wrath so conspicuous as not to be forgotten too often by man’s stupidity, God was willing to anticipate this evil, an...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 16 contains the open rebellion against Moses of Dathan and Abiram, but especially the pretension of the ministry in Israel to arrogate priesthood to itself. Some of the chiefs of the people we...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SPEAK UNTO ELEAZAR THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST,.... His eldest son, that was to succeed him as high priest, and who perhaps was upon the spot to see the issue of things; and who, rather than Aaron, is...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. Ver. 37. _For they are hallowed._] And therefo...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents, 31 The earth swalloweth vp Korah, and a fire consumeth others. 36 The censers are reserued to holy...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Speak unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, out of the midst of those that had been destroyed by the fire of the Lord, AND SCATTER THOU THE FIRE Y...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Punishment of the Rebellious Faction...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REBELLION OF KORAH (vs.1-15) The rebellion of Korah and a large company with him is significant of a dreadful revulsion against Christ both as Lord and High Priest of His people, and the awesome...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    35-40 A fire went out from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense, while Aaron, who stood with them, was preserved alive. God is jealous of the honour of his own in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    UNTO ELEAZAR, rather than to Aaron, partly because the tronblesome part of the work was more proper for him, and partlly lest Aaron should be polluted by going amongst those dead carcasses; for it is...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The chapter on which we have just been dwelling, is what may be called a digression from the history of Israel's wilderness life, except indeed the short paragraph respecting the Sabbath-breaker, It l...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 16:37 Tell H559 (H8798) Eleazar H499 son H1121 Aaron H175 priest H3548 up H7311 (H8686) censers...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE METAL OF THE CENSERS TO BE USED TO COVER THE ALTAR (NUMBERS 16:36). Numbers 16:36 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' Numbers 16:37 “ Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The gainsaying of Korah. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Korah, Dathan, Abriam. CONCLUSION: Proud and ambitious men projecting their own advancement by thrusting themselves into a place to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 16:1. _Korah._ One of the firstborn, a very old man, and grandson of Levi by his father Jahar. _Dathan_ and _Abiram_ were descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; these according to the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Take up the censers._ DIVINE ECONOMY What God has kissed must not be lost; what God has consecrated must be preserved. The two hundred and fifty men may be burned up, the censers may be scorched, bu...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the history of the rebellion of Korah and his company. The time and place of this event are not recorded. It is probable that it occurred in one...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    VINDICATION OF THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD. EXPOSITION THE GAINSAYING OF KORAH (Numbers 16:1). NUMBERS 16:1 Now K

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we get to chapter sixteen and this guy Korah, who is brought into mention in the book of Jude, has gotten the conspiracy together. He is of the tribe of Levi and he said, "Hey Moses, you take too...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Leviticus 27:28; Numbers 16:18; Numbers 16:7...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To Eleazer — Rather than to Aaron, partly because the troublesome part of the work was more proper for him, and partly lest Aaron should be polluted by going amongst those dead carcasses; for it is pr...

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