Deuteronomy 18:1

_THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND ALL THE TRIBE OF LEVI, SHALL HAVE NO PART NOR INHERITANCE WITH ISRAEL: THEY SHALL EAT THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE, AND HIS INHERITANCE._ The priests and the Levites ... shall eat the offerings. Since the tribe of Levi had no inheritance allotted them like the other tribes (see the note at Numbers 18:20), but were wholly consecrated to the priestly office, their maintenance was to arise from tithes, first-fruits, and certain portions of the oblations presented on the altar, which God having by express appointment reserved to Himself, made over after being offered to His ministers (Numbers 18:8)....

1._The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi. _This chapter contains three principal heads; for _first, _God shews that there was no reason why the Israelites should be aggrieved at paying tithes to the Levites, and at remitting the first-fruits and other oblations to the priests, since this tribe was deprived of their inheritance. _Secondly, _He obviates all quarrels, and prevents unlawful gains and pilferings, by assigning their just share to the priests and Levites. _Thirdly, _He defines how the oblations should be parted among them, and what part of the victims the priests were to take. As to the first clause, since God was as it were the lot of their inheritance, they justly claimed to themselves the right which he had transferred to them. If it were disagreeable to the people that their revenue should be tithed, God came as it were between, and declaring that it was His p...

1-8 Care is taken that the priests entangle not themselves with the affairs of this life, nor enrich themselves with the wealth of this world; they have better things to mind. Care is likewise taken that they want not the comforts and conveniences of this life. The people must provide for them. He that has the benefit of solemn religious assemblies, ought to give help for the comfortable support of those that minister in such assemblies....

CHAPTER XVIII _The priests and Levites to have no inheritance_, 1, 2. _What is the priest's due_, 3-5. _Of the Levites that come from any of the other cities_, 6-8. _The Israelites must not copy the abominations of the former_ _inhabitants_, 9. _None to cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire, or_ _use any kind of divination or enchantment, as the former_ _inhabitants did_, 10-14. _The great prophet which God promised to raise up_, 15-19. _Of false prophets_, 20; and how to di

Better, “there shall not be to the priests, the Levites, yea the whole tribe of Levi, any inheritance, etc.” AND HIS INHERITANCE - i. e., God’s inheritance, that which in making a grant to His people of the promised land with its earthly blessings He had reserved for Himself; more particularly the sacrifices and the holy gifts, such as tithes and first-fruits. These were God’s portion of the substance of Israel; and as the Levites were His portion of the persons of Israel, it was fitting that the Levites should be sustained from these. On the principle here laid down, compare 1 Corinthians 9:13....

EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM ISRAEL MUST HEAR. THE FALSE AND PRESUMPTUOUS PROPHET TO BE PUT TO DEATH. DEUTERONOMY 18:1 After the ruling powers, the judges and the king, come the priests and the

THE PRIESTS, THE LEVITES, AND ALL THE TRIBE OF LEVI, SHALL HAVE NO PART NOR INHERITANCE WITH ISRAEL,.... That is, in the land of Canaan, in the division of it among the tribes: THEY SHALL EAT THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE, AND HIS INHERITANCE; the meat offerings, see Leviticus 2:2, and whatsoever of the sin offerings and peace offerings which were the Lord's; so Ben Melech says, the flesh of the offerings which belonged to the priests was called fire offerings, after part of it was consumed by fire. All these, with other things, Numbers 18:8, were given, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, for their inheritance, in lieu of their having none in the land of Canaan....

14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite hate is stirred up in his wicked heart, and he became full of wrath. An unseen being, he who is the murderer from the beginning, told him to make this occasion for destroying all the Jews in the Persian Empire. Esther 3:7. And now Haman waits on his unseen master, the devil. They cast the lot before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. He wanted to find out the month which would be best suited for the execution of his wicke

THE PRIESTS, THE LEVITES TO BE SUPPORTED BY ALTAR GIFTS. The Jerusalem priests are intended. Deuteronomy 18:3_ f_. Contrast the later laws of Leviticus 7:34; Numbers 18:18; Numbers 18:12 (all P)....

THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....