Numbers 19:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: ”

• Numbers 19:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The work would necessarily require a priest; yet as it rendered him unclean for the day Numbers 19:22 , the high priest was relieved from performing it. Without the camp - The defilement was v...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and (b) [one] shall slay her before his face: (b) Another priest.

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• Numbers 19:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Purification of the unclean through Contact with the Dead. This was effected by sprinkling the unclean person twice within seven days ( Numbers 19:12 mg. , Numbers 19:19 ) with running water...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  without the camp. Compare the Antitype. Hebrews 13:12 .

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• Numbers 19:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar. A clear distinction is here made between two offerings; for the people are not permitted to kill the heifer, but this is the peculiar office of the prie...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

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• Numbers 19:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Unto Eleazar— Not Aaron himself, because, by being employed in the following work, he would have been defiled: a thing which, in all cases, he was to avoid. Other reasons are given for this employm...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: Ye shall give her unto Eleazar. He was the second or deput...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sacrifice of the red Heifer In order to provide a special means of purification for those who are defiled by contact with a dead body, a preparation called the 'water of separation' is made fr...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  TITHES AND CLEANSINGS Numbers 18:1-32 ; Numbers 19:1-22 1. DUTIES AND SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY The statutes of chapter 18, are related to the rebellion of Korah by a clause in Numbers 18:5...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Purification for Uncleanness Numbers 19:1-22 We might have expected this chapter to occur in Leviticus. Is it not incongruous in this narrative of the pilgrimage? Nay; this is the most appropri...

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• Numbers 19:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  A most interesting arrangement is here described. It was a provision for the sacrifice of a red heifer. Instructions were given for the ceremonial cleansing of the people during the period of their w...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Why is Eleazar chosen to this office and not Aaron? Is it not because that, as the ceremony to be performed in this service rendered the minister himself for a season ceremonially unclean, Aaron must...

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• Numbers 19:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest ,.... The son of Aaron; the Sagan of the priests, as the Targum of Jonathan calls him, the second or deputy priest; it was not to be given to Aaron, tha...

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• Numbers 19:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her before his face: Ver. 3. To Eleazar the priest. ] To assure him of the success...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ye shall give her unto Eleazar Who was the second priest, and in some cases the deputy of the high-priest. To him this service was committed, and not to Aaron, because it was not fit that Aaron sho...

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• Numbers 19:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ORDINANCE OF THE RED HEIFER (vs.1-22) This law concerning the offering of the red heifer is unusual in all of its circumstances, but it is consistent with the character of the book of Numbers, wh...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Ashes of Purification. B. C. 1471.       1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Unto Eleazar, who was the second priest, and, in some cases, the vicegerent or deputy of the high priest. To him, not to Aaron, because this service made him unclean for a season, Numbers 19:7 ,...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Red Heifer To Be Brought Outside the Camp by Eleazar and Slain Before Him ( Numbers 19:3 ). Numbers 19:3 “ And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outsid...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES “Ordinances respecting purification from the uncleanness of death.” The association of death with sin ( Genesis 2:17 ) sufficiently explains the ideas on which these...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Numbers 19:1 . And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This ordinance was not given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but in the wilderness of Paran, after the people had broken their coven...

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• Numbers 19:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 19:2 . A red heifer, a young and spotless cow, which in the third year had nearly come to her full growth. The whole body of this victim was burnt with holy fire from the altar. From her a...

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• Numbers 19:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A red heifer without spot. The red heifer I. It is undoubtedly true that even the true Israelite, the true believer in Christ, is the subject of daily defilement. 1. Some of our defilement a...

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• Numbers 19:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 19:1-4 ). Numbers 19:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron. On the addition of the second name...

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• Numbers 19:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Preparation of the Water

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• Numbers 19:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hebrews 13:11-13 ; Leviticus 13:45 ; Leviticus 13:46 ; Leviticus 16:27 ; Leviticus 24:14 ; Leviticus 4:12 ; Leviticus 4:21 ; Numbers 15:36 ; Numbers 5:2

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• Numbers 19:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Eleazar — Who was the second priest, and in some cases, the deputy of the high — priest. To him, not to Aaron, because this service made him unclean for a season, and consequently unfit for holy mi...

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