Numbers 4 - Introduction
_THE LEVITES ARE NUMBERED FROM THIRTY TO FIFTY YEARS OLD, AND THEIR SERVICE IS APPOINTED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LEVITES ARE NUMBERED FROM THIRTY TO FIFTY YEARS OLD, AND THEIR SERVICE IS APPOINTED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD— In chap. Numbers 8:24 the age of _twenty-five years_ is appointed for the admission of the Levites to the service of the tabernacle; agreeably to which the LXX. read _twenty-five years_ here, which reconciles the passages. Some, however, suppose, that though the Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON A BAR— The original word signifies _a bearer,_ and therefore it would be more properly rendered _a bier._... [ Continue Reading ]
CUT YE NOT OFF THE TRIBE, &C.— The meaning of this, as explained in the following verses, is, "Do not, by omitting to instruct the Kohathites what they are to do in the service to which they are appointed, occasion them to be cut off and to perish by a neglectful and irreverent performance of their... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD, &C.— _The service of the ministry,_ &c. is, in the Hebrew, _the service of service, and the service of the burden;_ by which seems to be meant _the most laborious service, even that of the burden._ The Levites appointed to this office were, Of the Kohathites 2750 Gershonites... [ Continue Reading ]