When thou settest up] So R.V. marg. correctly. The lamps were small bowls of oil with wicks. They stood on the top of the central stem and of the three branching arms or shafts on either side. The verb describes Aaron as reaching up to put them in their place after the wicks have been lighted.
in front of the lampstand] i.e. towards the opposite (north) side, where the table of the Presence-bread stood.
Verse Numbers 8:2. _THE SEVEN LAMPS SHALL GIVE LIGHT_] The whole seven shall be lighted at one time, that seven may be ever burning....
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...
THE. the face of the. CANDLESTICK. light-holder (as in Genesis 1:14), or lampstand. Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 37:17....
WHEN THOU LIGHTEST THE LAMPS, &C.— Houbigant thinks that the stress here is to be laid upon the word _seven;_ and that the meaning is, "when thou lightest the lamps of the candlestick, take care that...
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.
_SPEAK UNTO AARON, AND SAY UNTO HIM, WHEN THOU LIGHTEST THE LAMPS, THE SEVEN LAMPS SHALL GIVE LIGHT OVER AGAINST THE CANDLESTICK._ SPEAK UNTO AARON ... The candlestick, which was made of one solid, ma...
8:2 lightest (a-10) See Exodus 25:37 ....
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
VIII. (2) WHEN THOU LIGHTEST THE LAMPS. — Better, _When thou settest up the lamps._ (Comp. Exodus 25:37.) The golden candlestick was placed against the south wall of the Tabernacle, opposite to the ta...
דַּבֵּר֙ אֶֽל ־אַהֲרֹ֔ן וְ אָמַרְתָּ֖ אֵלָ֑יו...
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...
Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light (a) over against the candlestick. (a) To that part which is in the forefront of the candlestick, (Ex...
Looketh. This candlestick stood on the south side, with one branch extending towards the altar of incense, on the east; and the other to the west, so as to give light to the loaves of proposition, on...
If the Reader will consult Exodus 25:31 he will find similar directions given concerning this service. But it was here that the first precept is given of the order for lighting the lamps. But let the...
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...
2_When thou lightest the lamps. _This precept, like many others, is not inserted in its proper place. Moses again declares what was the use of the candlestick, and how the lamps should be arranged, so...
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...
SPEAK UNTO AARON, AND SAY UNTO HIM,.... It being his work to light the lamps, though, as Ben Gersom observes, it was not incumbent on an high priest alone to do this, for it also belonged to the sons...
_When thou lightest the lamps_ The priests lighted the middle lamp from the fire of the altar, and the rest one from another. Thus, all light and knowledge comes from Christ, who has _the seven spirit...
[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...
Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, apparently the chief daily function of the high priest in those days, and a very important part of the officiating priest's work at a l...
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...
i.e. Either, 1. On every side of the candlestick. So the _candlestick_ is here put for the bulk or shaft of the candlestick, as EXODUS 25:31,35, and the lamps, when they were lighted, were put into th...
"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 8:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) Aaron H175 say H559 (H8804) arrange H5927 (H8687) lamps H5216 seven...
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...
2 Peter 1:19; Exodus 25:37; Exodus 37:18; Exodus 37:19; Exodus 37:23;...
When thou lightest the lamps — The priests lighted the middle lamp from the fire of the altar; and the rest one from another; signifying that all light and knowledge comes from Christ, who has the sev...