_THESE ALSO ARE THE GENERATIONS OF AARON AND MOSES IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD SPAKE WITH MOSES IN MOUNT SINAI._ These also are the generations ..., х_ TOWLªDOWT_ (H8435)] - (see the notes at Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1; Genesis 10:1, etc.) This chapter contains an account of their families; and although... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF AARON; NADAB THE FIRSTBORN, AND ABIHU, ELEAZAR, AND ITHAMAR._ These are the names. All the sons of Aaron, four in number, were consecrated to minister in the priest's office. The two oldest enjoyed but a brief term of office (Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 26:61); b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ Bring the tribe of Levi near, х_ HAQªREEB_ (H7126)] - make approach. It is a sacrificial term, denoting the presentation of an offering to God (Leviticus 16:9); and the use of the word, therefore, in connection with the Levites, signifies that they were devo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ I have taken the Levites ... The consecration of this tribe did not originate in the legislative wisdom of Moses, but in the special appointment of God, who chose them as substitutes for the firstborn. By an appointment made in memory of the last solemn judg... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI, SAYING,_ Number the children of Levi. They were numbered as well as the other tribes, but the enumeration was made on a different principle; for while in the other tribes the amount of males was calculated from twenty years and upward, in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE NUMBER OF ALL THE MALES, FROM A MONTH OLD AND UPWARD, WERE EIGHT THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED, KEEPING THE CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELEAZAR THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST SHALL BE CHIEF OVER THE CHIEF OF THE LEVITES, AND HAVE THE OVERSIGHT OF THEM THAT KEEP THE CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY._ Chief over the chief of the Levites, х_ UWNSIY'_ (H5387) _ NªSIY'EEY_ (H5387) _ HA-LEEWIY_ (H3881), the prince of the princes] - prince or ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF MERARI WAS THE FAMILY OF THE MAHLITES, AND THE FAMILY OF THE MUSHITES: THESE ARE THE FAMILIES OF MERARI._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE LEVITES, WHICH MOSES AND AARON NUMBERED AT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, THROUGHOUT THEIR FAMILIES, ALL THE MALES FROM A MONTH OLD AND UPWARD, WERE TWENTY AND TWO THOUSAND._ Twenty and two thousand. The result of this census, though made on conditions most advantageous... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, NUMBER ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF THE MALES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM A MONTH OLD AND UPWARD, AND TAKE THE NUMBER OF THEIR NAMES._ Number all the firstborn ... The principle on which the enumeration of the Levites had been made was now to be applied to the other tribes... [ Continue Reading ]