Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 3:40
That they may be compared with the number of the Levites for the reason here following.
That they may be compared with the number of the Levites for the reason here following.
3. THE LEVITES AND THEIR MINISTRATIONS CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The generations of the priests (Numbers 3:1)_ 2. The tribe of Levi and their ministry (Numbers 3:5) 3. The Levites substituted for all the fir...
THE NUMBERS OF THE FIRST-BORN MALES IN ISRAEL ABOVE ONE MONTH. The figure (22,273) is out of proportion to the total population given in 146; for if it is doubled (for an equal number of females), the...
THE LORD SAID. Jehovah said. Hebrew. _'amar_ (not _davar,_ spake), _'amar_ is followed by the words spoken, _davar_ is not. This expression, Jehovah said, occurs eighteen "sundry times" and in five "d...
The substitution of the Levites for the first-born....
C. CENSUS OF THE FIRST BORN vv. 40-43 TEXT Numbers 3:40. 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...
_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 princ...
THE LEVITES, THEIR DUTIES AND NUMBER Although Aaron and his family belong to the tribe of Levi (Exodus 2:1) the term 'Levites' is usually employed, as here, to denote the non-Aaronite Levites. The fam...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 AARON’S SONS – NUMBERS 3:1-4 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses on Sinai mountain. This is the family of Aaron and Mos
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֗ה פְּקֹ֨ד כָּל
2. THE FIRST-BORN Numbers 3:11; Numbers 3:40 These two passages supplement each other and may be taken together. Jehovah claims the first-born in Israel. He hallowed them unto Himself on the day when...
The account of the arrangements for the service of the Levites is fully and carefully given in this and the following chapter. In the rites are certain matters of principle which are of permanent valu...
Is not this direction concerning the firstborn, in allusion to the only begotten SON of GOD? Did not GOD our FATHER give and exchange, as it were, his firstborn and only SON, for the people of his eve...
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...
In chapter 3 we have the Levites set apart, according to the thoughts of God, for service. They are a figure of the church, or rather of the members of the church in their service, even as the priests...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,.... After he had taken the number of the Levites: NUMBER ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, FROM A MONTH OLD AND UPWARD, AND TAKE THE NUMBER OF THEIR NAMES; th...
[THE LEUITES ARE NUMBRED.] 1 The sonnes of Aaron. 5 The Leuites are giuen to the Priests for the seruice of the Tabernacle, 11 in stead of the first borne. 14 The Leuites are numbred by their fami...
And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names....
FINAL REGULATIONS...
THE SONS OF AARON (vs.1-4) Aaron was the high priest, and in Israel a natural succession was practiced, as is not true in the Church of God today In fact, a special priesthood is not scriptural now,...
40-51 The number of the first-born, and that of the Levites, came near to each other. Known unto God are all his works beforehand; there is an exact proportion between them, and so it will appear, wh...
Numbers 4:1-49. What a marvellous spectacle was the camp of Israel, in that waste howling wilderness! What a spectacle to angels, to men, and to devils! God's eye ever rested upon it. His presence was...
Numbers 3:40 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 Number H6485 (H8798) firstborn H1060 males H2145 children...
VII). THE MAKE-UP OF THE LEVITES AND THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN (NUMBERS 3:39). Numbers 3:39 ‘All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahw...
CONTENTS: Order of the host; placing of the Levites. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Having gifts differing according to the Grace given us if ministry, let us wait on our ministering (Ro...
Numbers 3:9. _Thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron._ God has a sovereign right to choose and call his own ministers. The service of the tabernacle would be better done by a separate tribe professional...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 3:1__ The two censuses of Levites count different groups. The first (Numbers 3:1) counts every male Levite over one month old. The male Levites took the place of the firstborn...
Critical Notes.—“Muster of the Tribe of Levi. As Jacob had adopted the two sons of Joseph as his own sons, and thus promoted them to the rank of heads of tribes, the tribe of Levi founded, strictly sp...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBERS AND DUTIES OF THE LEVITES; THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN (Numbers 3:1)....
Now in chapter three, God had Moses set out the tribe of Levi into three major families: the family of Gershon, the family of Kohath and Merari. And so the Levites were divided into the three major fa...
2 Timothy 2:19; Exodus 32:26; Hebrews 12:23; Isaiah 4:3; Luke 10:20;...