Num 3:6-9, 18:2-6, 1Ch 23:28-32, Eze 44:11-14 | 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

Numbers 18:2-6

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 23:28-32

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

Ezekiel 44:11-14

they shall be.As few, if any, of those who, before the captivity, had been guilty in these respects, lived to witness the restoration of the temple service; and as it does not appear that their descendants were thus degraded for the idolatry of their ancestors; it is probable that a thorough reformation of the whole church, or the prevalence of pure religion among the converted Jews, is here predicted.

having charge.

14; 40:45; 1Ch 26:1-19

shall slay.

2Ch 29:34; 30:17; 35:10,11

and they.

Nu 16:9; 18:6

they ministered.

1Sa 2:29,30; 2Ki 16:10-16; Isa 9:16; Ho 4:6; 5:1; Mal 2:8,9

caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity. Heb. werefor a stumbling-block of iniquity unto, etc.

14:3,4

therefore.

20:6,15,23,28; De 32:40-42; Ps 106:26; Am 8:7; Re 10:5,6