Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 8:25
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the (k) service [thereof], and shall serve no more:
(k) Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the (k) service [thereof], and shall serve no more:
(k) Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.
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...
THE AGE-LIMIT FOR THE LEVITES'SERVICE. The limits here given (25 and 50) differ from those fixed in ch. 4 (where they are 30 and 50). NUMBERS 8:24. THIS IS THAT WHICH BELONGETH UNTO: read (Vulg.), T...
_The Levites_ Numbers 8:5. Their purification and dedication, Numbers 8:23. The age of service. The passage is an expansion of Numbers 3:5-13, with the addition of the rite of purification. The Levit...
C. LIMITS OF AGE AND SERVICE FOR THE LEVITES vv. 23-26 TEXT Numbers 8:23. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 24, This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upwa...
_AND FROM THE AGE OF FIFTY YEARS THEY SHALL CEASE WAITING UPON THE SERVICE THEREOF, AND SHALL SERVE NO MORE:_ From ... fifty ... they shall cease waiting ... - i:e., on the laborious and exhausting p...
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
וּ מִ בֶּן֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה יָשׁ֖וּב מִ
This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....
CONSECRATED TO GOD'S SERVICE Numbers 8:14 The Levites may be taken to represent the Church as distinguished from the rest of mankind, or the little band of pastors, teachers, and missionaries, set ap...
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...
_Serve, in any laborious functions, as the original imports._...
The age of twenty five, from whence this dedication to the LORD'S service began, was meant no doubt, to point out the ripeness of age, required for his sacred employment. The apostle hath given the li...
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...
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...
AND FROM THE AGE OF FIFTY YEARS THEY SHALL CEASE WAITING UPON THE SERVICE [THEREOF],.... The heavy service of it: AND SHALL SERVE NO MORE; by bearing and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary upon th...
_From the age of fifty they shall cease waiting_ Shall be excused from carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle, and all the toilsome duties of the service, and shall only give advice and dire...
[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...
THE AGE AT WHICH THE LEVITES SERVED...
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof and shall serve no more, not be obliged to do the heavy work connected with the transport of the Tabernacle;...
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...
CEASE WAITING UPON THE SERVICE: _ Heb._ return from the warfare of the service...
5-26 Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the Levites. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they wer...
i.e. Upon the difficult and cumbersome part of their work....
"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 8:25 age H1121 fifty H2572 years H8141 cease H7725 (H8799) performing H6635 work H5656 work H5647 ...
LIMITS ON LEVITE MINISTRY (NUMBERS 8:23). The soldiers of Israel commenced their responsibilities at twenty years old, but the work of the Levites was so sacred that they had to be more mature before...
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...
_The Levites; from twenty and five years._ SERVICE I. The service God demands of all levites. 1. Burden-bearing. 2. Singing. 3. Study of the law, “Search the Scriptures.” 4. Attendance on the or...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:23__ At age 50 Levites were to retire from THE DUTY OF THE SERVICE because carrying the tabernacle was too hard for older men. They could continue as guards (vv....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...
EXPOSITION THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 8:5-4). NUMBERS 8:5 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. At some time subsequent to the command given in...
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 Timothy 4:7; Numbers 4:23...