Num 18:1-6, 1Ch 16:37-42, 23:27-32 | TSK | STEP | The charge of the priests and Levites. The priests' portion. The Levites' portion. The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion. Aaron, Thou. shall bear.To counterbalance the high honour conferred on Aaron and his family, and to allay the fears and abate the envy of the people, it is here declared, that the priest must bear the blame of everything which was not properly conducted in the sanctuary.

Numbers 18:1-6

1 The charge of the priests and Levites.

8 The priests' portion.

21 The Levites' portion.

25 The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion.

Aaron, Thou.

shall bear.To counterbalance the high honour conferred on Aaron and his family, and to allay the fears and abate the envy of the people, it is here declared, that the priest must bear the blame of everything which was not properly conducted in the sanctuary.

22; 14:34; Ex 28:38; Le 22:9; Isa 53:6,11; Eze 3:18,19

Ac 20:26,27; Heb 13:17; 1Pe 2:24

joined unto thee.There is a fine paronomasia in the original. Levi is desired from {lawah,} to join, couple, associate; hence Moses says, the Levites {yillawoo,} "shall be joined," or associated, with the priests: they shall conjointly perform the sacred office, but the priests shall be principal, the Levites their associates or assistants.

4; Ge 29:34

minister.

3:6-9; 8:19,22

but thou.

3:10-13; 4:15; 16:40; 17:7; 1Ch 16:39,40; 2Ch 30:16; Eze 44:15

only they.

3:25,31,36; 4:19,20; 16:40

neither.

4:15

a stranger.

1:51; 3:10; 1Sa 6:19; 2Sa 6:6,7

And ye.

8:2; Ex 27:21; 30:7-10; Le 24:3; 1Ch 9:19,23,33; 24:5; 1Ti 1:18

1Ti 3:15; 5:21; 6:20

no wrath.

8:19; 16:46; Jer 23:15; Zec 10:3

And I.

Ge 6:17; 9:9; Ex 14:17; 31:6; Isa 48:15; 51:12; Eze 34:11,20

I have.

3:12,45

given.

3:9; 8:16-19

1 Chronicles 16:37-42

before the ark.

4-6; 15:17-24; 25:1-6

as every.

2Ch 8:14; Ezr 3:4

Obed-edom.

13:14; 26:4-8

Jeduthun.

25:3

Zadok.

12:28

before.

21:29; 2Ch 1:3,4,13

in the high.

1Ki 3:4

To offer.

Ex 29:38-42; Nu 28:3-8; 1Ki 18:29; 2Ch 2:4; 31:3; Ezr 3:3

Eze 46:13-15; Da 9:21; Am 4:4

morning and evening. Heb. in the morning and in the evening.

Heman.

37; 6:39-47; 25:1-6

expressed.

12:31; Nu 1:17; Ezr 8:20

to give.

34; 2Ch 5:13; 7:3; 20:21; Ezr 3:11; Ps 103:17; Jer 33:11; Lu 1:50

trumpets.

2Ch 29:25-28; Ps 150:3-6

musical instruments.

25:6; Ps 84:10

porters. Heb. for the gate.

1 Chronicles 23:27-32

by the last.

3,24; 2Sa 23:1; Ps 72:20

numbered. Heb. numbers.

office was to wait, etc. Heb. station was at the hand ofAaron.

18:17; *marg:

Ne 11:24

for the service.

4; 28:13; Nu 3:6-9; 1Ki 6:5; 2Ch 31:11; Ezr 8:29; Ne 13:4,5,9

Jer 35:4; Eze 41:6-11,26; 42:3,13

purifying.

9:28,29; 2Ch 29:5,18,19; 35:3-6,11-14

for the shewbread.It was the priests' office to place this bread before the Lord; and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new.

9:31,32; Ex 25:30; Le 24:5-9; 1Ki 7:48; 2Ch 13:11; 29:18; Ne 10:33

Mt 12:4; Heb 9:2

the fine flour.

9:29-34; Le 6:20-23

unleavened.

Le 2:4-7; 7:9

pan. or, flat plate. for all manner of measure.The standards of all weights and measures were in the sanctuary; and therefore the Levites had the inspection of weights and measures of every kind, that no fraud might in this way be committed. Honesty is inseparably connected with piety; and hence the Levites, being sufficiently numerous, were employed to superintend the former, as well as the latter.

Le 19:35,36; Nu 3:50

stand.

6:31-33; 9:33; 16:37-42; 25:1-7; 2Ch 29:25-28; 31:2; Ezr 3:10,11

Ps 135:1-3,19,20; 137:2-4; Re 5:8-14; 14:3

every morning.

Ex 29:39-42; Ps 92:1-3; 134:1,2

in the sabbaths.

Le 23:24,39; Nu 10:10; Ps 81:1-4; Isa 1:13,14

set feasts.

Le 23:1-17; Nu 28:1-29:40

keep.

9:27; Nu 1:53; 1Ki 8:4

the charge of the sons.

Nu 3:6-9,38