Deuteronomy 18:2

_THEREFORE SHALL THEY HAVE NO INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR BRETHREN: THE LORD IS THEIR INHERITANCE, AS HE HATH SAID UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

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....

Verse Deuteronomy 18:2. _THE LORD IS THEIR INHERITANCE_] He is the portion of their souls; and as to their bodies, they shall live by the offerings of the Lord made by fire, i. e., the _meat-offering, the_ _sin-offering_, and the _trespass-offering_; and whatever was the Lord's right, in these or other offerings, he gave to the priests....

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

THEREFORE SHALL THEY HAVE NONE INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR BRETHREN,.... Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, because provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because THE LORD IS THEIR INHERITANCE, AS HE HATH SAID UNTO THEM, Numbers 18:20, which as it may be understood in a spiritual sense of their interest in God, as their covenant God, and of their enjoyment of him, and communion with him; so chiefly in a temporal sense of all those things in the sacrifices which the Lord claimed to himself, and these he gave unto them; so the same Targum interprets this of the twenty four gifts of the priesthood, enumerated Numbers 18:1....

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)....

IS. Hebrew "He [is]"....

As in Deuteronomy 10:9: read with Heb. HE, HIS, HIM for _they, their, them_and see introd. to this law....

(3) PRIESTS (Deuteronomy 18:1-8) The priests the Levites, _even_ all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them. 3 And this shall be the priests-' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the Matthew 4 The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5 For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever. 6 And i