Num 3:6-9, 1Ki 6:5, 1Ch 23:4, 28:13, 2Ch 31:11, Ezr 8:29, Neh 13:4-5, 9 | TSK | STEP | The word {hakraiv,} here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's.

Numbers 3:6-9

The word {hakraiv,} here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's.

1:49-53; 2:17,33; 8:6-15,22-26; 16:9-11; 18:2-6; Ex 32:26-29

De 33:8,9; Mal 2:4

keep.

32; 8:26; 31:30; 1Ch 23:28-32; 26:20,22,26

to do the.

1:50; 8:11,15,24-26

4:15,28,33; 10:17,21; 1Ch 26:20-28; Ezr 8:24-30; Isa 52:11

8:19; 18:6,7; Eph 4:8,11

1 Kings 6:5

against. or, upon, or joining to. built.

1Ch 9:26; 23:28; 28:11; 2Ch 31:11; Ne 10:37; 12:44; 13:5-9; So 1:4

Jer 35:4; Eze 40:44; 41:5-11; 42:3-12

chambers. Heb. floors.These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.

oracle.

16,19-21,31; Ex 25:22; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89; 2Ch 4:20; 5:7,9; Ps 28:2

chambers. Heb. ribs.