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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Numbers 8:3

Observe here who was expressly appointed to the office of lighting the lamps; it was Aaron. Yes! It was JESUS our Almighty Aaron, that sends to us the HOLY SPIRIT, as the FATHER'S gift, to enlighten the souls of his people, and as the fruit and effect of his own ascension-gifts to his church. Hence David saith, Thou LORD wilt light my candle. Psalms 18:28. Dearest JESUS! thou art both the light, and the life of thy people, and in thy light, shall we see light. Psalms 36:9.

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See also Numbers 8:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS. according as....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Lampstand_ The golden lampstand (not -candlestick" E.VV. [Note:.VV. The English Versions, i.e. Authorised and Revised.]) stood in the Holy Place, on the south side, i.e. on the left of one enter...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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.

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND AARON DID SO; HE LIGHTED THE LAMPS THEREOF OVER AGAINST THE CANDLESTICK, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE LIGHTED. — Better, _he set up. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ כֵּן֙ אַהֲרֹ֔ן אֶל ־מוּל֙ פְּנֵ֣י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AARON DID SO, HE LIGHTED THE LAMPS THEREOF OVER AGAINST THE CANDLESTICK,.... As God had taken up his residence in the most holy place, as appears by the voice speaking from off the mercy seat, Num...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. Ver. 3. _He lighted the lamps._] This candlestick, on the south side of the tabernacle, over...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LIGHTING OF THE SANCTUARY LAMPS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, so that they shone forward or toward the east from the veil which screened the Most Holy Place, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 8:3 Aaron H175 did H6213 (H8799) arranged H5927 (H8689) lamps H5216 front H4136 H6440 lampstand...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:1__ The lampstand is described more fully in Exodus 25:31. Its construction is explained in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 3:1; John 8:28; John 8:29; Psalms 40:7; Psalms 40:8...

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