Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 3:4
In the sight of Aaron Under his inspection and direction, and as his servants or ministers in the priest's office.
In the sight of Aaron Under his inspection and direction, and as his servants or ministers in the priest's office.
Verse Numbers 3:4. _NADAB AND ABIHU DIED_] See the notes on Leviticus 10:1....
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...
AARON'S SONS. These constituted a priestly order (Numbers 3:10). The description of these (who during their father's lifetime were only ordinary priests) as anointed (Numbers 3:3) agrees with Exodus 4...
DIED BEFORE THE LORD. This parenthetical statement is an undesigned coincidence referring to Leviticus 10:1. Compare Numbers 26:61, and 1 Chronicles 24:2. CHILDREN. sons....
The generations of Aaron....
The incident here referred to is related in Leviticus 10:1-7. The meaning of -strange fire" is uncertain. Either the incense which they burnt was not made in accordance with the divine prescription (g...
ELEAZAR AND ITHAMAR MINISTERED—IN THE SIGHT OF AARON THEIR FATHER— See Numbers 3:38. _In the sight of their father,_ means, most probably, together with their father....
V. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 3) A. THE SONS OF AARON vv. 1-4 TEXT Numbers 3:1. These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount...
_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 p...
On NADAB and ABIHU see Leviticus 10....
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
DIED BEFORE THE LORD. — The account is given in Leviticus 10:1, where the same expression “before the Lord” is used both in regard to the offering of strange fire by Nadab and Abihu, and also in regar...
וַ יָּ֣מָת נָדָ֣ב וַ אֲבִיה֣וּא לִ פְנֵ֣י
PRIESTS AND LEVITES 1. THE PRIESTHOOD Numbers 3:1 In the opening verse of this chapter, which relates to the designation of the priesthood, Moses is named, for once, after his brother. According to...
44-51, THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FIRST-BORN Numbers 3:1 The Levites were taken, instead of the firstborn sons of Israel, to perform the service of the Tabernacle. There were nearly as many Levites as fi...
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...
And Nadab and Abihu died (b) before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's o...
_Presence; or as it is expressed, (1 Paralipomenon xxiv. 9,) under the hand of Aaron, by his direction, and in quality of his assistant, (Calmet) while he lived. Eleazar succeeded him in the high prie...
Let the Reader not lose sight of the intention, which probably the HOLY GHOST had in view, in causing the sin of Aaron's two eldest sons to be again mentioned. The church of GOD is a sacred inclosure...
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 NADAB AND ABIHU DIED BEFORE THE LORD,...., By flaming fire, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, see Leviticus 10:2; and so were not alive at this time when the account of the priests and Levites was t...
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's offic...
[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 Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the Wilderness of Sinai, Leviticus 10:1; AND THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. AND ELEAZAR AND ITHAMAR MINISTERED IN THE...
THE FORMAL CHARGE...
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,...
1-13 There was much work belonging to the priests' office, and there were now only Aaron and his two sons to do it; God appoints the Levites to attend them. Those whom God finds work for, he will find...
In the time of Aaron's life, as this phrase is taken, NUMBERS 3:4; see also PSALMS 72:5,17; and under their father's inspection and direction, and as their father's servants or ministers in the priest...
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 3:4 Nadab H5070 Abihu H30 died H4191 (H8799) before H6440 LORD H3068 offered H7126 (H8687) profane...
CHAPTER 3 THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. In this chapter more information is given about the priests and Levites, those set apart by Yahweh to watch over His Dwellingplace. Their task was to watch over...
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...
_The priests which were anointed._ AARON AND HIS SONS: PARENTS AND CHILDREN In Numbers 3:1 we have-- I. An incidental illustration of the exalted personal character and the divine mission of Moses....
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...
Leviticus 10:1; Leviticus 10:2; Numbers 26:61...
In the sight of Aaron — Under his inspection and direction, and as their father's servants or ministers in the priest's office....