Numbers 6:3
Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (La 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8. Le 10:9; Jud 13:14; Pr 31:4,5; Jer 35:6-8; Am 2:12; Lu 1:15Lu 7:33,34; 21:34; Eph 5:18; 1Th 5:22; 1Ti 5:23Numbers 6:20
the priest shall.5:25; Ex 29:27,28; Le 9:21; 10:15; 23:11with the wave.18:18; Le 7:31,34and after.Ps 16:10,11; Ec 9:7; Isa 25:6; 35:10; 53:10-12; Zec 9:15,17; 10:7Mt 26:29; Mr 14:25; Joh 17:4,5; 19:30; 2Ti 4:7,8Proverbs 31:4-5
Le 10:9,10; 1Ki 20:12,16-20; Es 3:15; Ec 10:17; Isa 28:7,8Da 5:2-4; Ho 4:11,12; 7:3-5; Hab 2:5; Mr 6:21-28 pervert. Heb. alter. any of the afflicted. Heb. all thesons of affliction. Hab 2:5Isaiah 28:7
erred.19:14; 56:10-12; Le 10:9,10; Pr 20:1; 31:4,5; Ec 10:17; Eze 44:21Ho 4:11; Mic 2:11; Mt 24:29; Lu 21:34; Eph 5:28are swallowed.Ps 107:27; *marg:err in.3:12; 9:16; Jer 14:14; 23:13,16; La 2:4; Eze 13:7; Ho 4:12Jeremiah 35:5-6
Drink.2; Ec 9:7; Am 2:12; 2Co 2:9 Jonadab.2Ki 10:15; 1Ch 2:55Ye shall.Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments. Le 10:9; Nu 6:2-5; Jud 13:7,14; Lu 1:15; 1Co 7:26-31all.10; Ge 25:27; Le 23:42,43; Ne 8:14-16; Heb 11:9-13; 1Pe 2:11that ye.Ge 36:7; Ex 20:12; 1Ch 16:19; Ps 105:12; Eph 6:2,3Ezekiel 44:21
Le 10:9; Lu 1:15; 1Ti 3:8; 5:23; Tit 1:7,8Luke 1:15
great.7:28; Ge 12:2; 48:19; Jos 3:7; 4:14; 1Ch 17:8; 29:12; Mt 11:9-19Joh 5:35and shall.7:33; Nu 6:2-4; Jud 13:4-6; Mt 11:18filled.Zec 9:15; Ac 2:4,14-18; Eph 5:18even.Ps 22:9; Jer 1:5; Ga 1:15
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