Numbers 3:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. ”

Numbers 3:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Numbers of the Levites, their Position and Duties. The census here described included all Levites above one month, whose numbers amounted to 22,000. Their three divisions, when the camp was sta...
Numbers 3:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers The enumeration of the tribe now follows, commencing with the three sons of Levi, Kohath, Gershon, and Merari, from whom many...
Numbers 3:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. A month old and upward - The males of all the other tri...
Numbers 3:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses— Bishop Kidder remarks here, very judiciously, that though the number of the Israelites was to be taken by Aaron as well as by Moses (chap. Numbers 1:3 .); the precep...
Numbers 3:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, Number the children of Levi. They were numbered as well as the other tribes, but the enumeration was made on a different prin...
Numbers 3:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Levites, Their Duties And Number Although Aaron and his family belong to the tribe of Levi ( Exodus 2:1 ) the term 'Levites' is usually employed, as here, to denote the non-Aaronite Levites. T...
Numbers 3:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

From a month old and upward... — The males of the other tribes had been numbered “from twenty years old and upward” ( Numbers 1:3 ). The firstborn males, however, among all the children of Israel,...
Numbers 3:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

3. LEVITICAL SERVICE Numbers 3:14-39 ; Numbers 4:1-49 The sacred service of the Levites is described in detail. There are three divisions, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites. The G...
Numbers 3:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The account of the arrangements for the service of the Levites is fully and carefully given in this and the following chapter. In the rites are certain matters of principle which are of permanent val...
Numbers 3:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is worthy the Reader's closest attention here, that while Israel at large, were only numbered from the age of 20, and upward; the children of the Levites were commanded to be numbered from a month...
Numbers 3:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Number the children of Levi ,.... Who were left out of the general muster of the children of Israel, but now were to be numbered alone, and in a different manner, and for, a different purpose, the L...
Numbers 3:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

From a month old Because at that time the firstborn, in whose stead the Levites came, were offered to God. And from that time the Levites were consecrated to God, and were, as soon as capable, inst...
Numbers 3:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE SONS OF AARON (vs.1-4) Aaron was the high priest, and in Israel a natural succession was practiced, as is not true in the Church of God today In fact, a special priesthood is not scriptural n...
Numbers 3:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

14 And the L ORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and up...
Numbers 3:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

From a month old, because at that time the first-born, in whose stead the Levites came, Numbers 8:16 , were offered to God, Luke 2:22 , and to be redeemed, Numbers 18:16 . And from that ti...
Numbers 3:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Positioning and Arrangements for Travel of the Levites ( Numbers 3:14-51 ). i). The Command to Number The Levites Over One Month Old ( Numbers 3:14-16 ). Numbers 3:14-15 ‘And Yahweh spoke to...
Numbers 3:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Critical Notes.—“Muster of the Tribe of Levi. As Jacob had adopted the two sons of Joseph as his own sons, and thus promoted them to the rank of heads of tribes, the tribe of Levi founded, strictly s...
Numbers 3:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 3:9 . Thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron. God has a sovereign right to choose and call his own ministers. The service of the tabernacle would be better done by a separate tribe professio...
Numbers 3:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

From a month old. Dedication of infants to God That He taketh them from a month old is a thing of good use, and we may note it, for it notably showeth that we may destinate our children to God...
Numbers 3:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE NUMBERS AND DUTIES OF THE LEVITES ; THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN ( Numbers 3:1-4 ). Numbers 3:1 These … are the generations of Aaron and Mose...
Numbers 3:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Formal Mustering
Numbers 3:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 18:15 ; Numbers 18:16 ; Numbers 26:62 ; 2 Timothy 3:15 ; Jeremiah 2:2 ; Jeremiah 31:3 ; Mark 10:14 ; Proverbs 8:17
Numbers 3:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

From a month old — Because at that time the first — born, in whose stead the Levites came, were offered to God. And from that time the Levites were consecrated to God, and were, as soon as capable,...

Numbers 3:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 3:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 3:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 3:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 3:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 3:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 3:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 3:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 3:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 3:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 3:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes