Numbers 3:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. ”

Numbers 3:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Numbers of the First-born Males in Israel above one Month. The figure (22,273) is out of proportion to the total population given in 146; for if it is doubled (for an equal number of females),...
Numbers 3:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Numbers 3:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. Number all the firstborn ... The...
Numbers 3:42 - 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 3:42 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. THE FIRST-BORN Numbers 3:11-13 ; Numbers 3:40-51 These two passages supplement each other and may be taken together. Jehovah claims the first-born in Israel. He hallowed them unto Himself o...
Numbers 3:42 - 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 3:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Is not this direction concerning the firstborn, in allusion to the only begotten SON of GOD? Did not GOD our FATHER give and exchange, as it were, his firstborn and only SON, for the people of his ev...
Numbers 3:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him ,.... No doubt assisted by others, though not mentioned: all the firstborn among the children of Israel ; which some think were only those that were b...
Numbers 3:42 - 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 3:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

40 And the L ORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take th...
Numbers 3:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 3:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

vii). The Make-up of the Levites And Their Substitution for the Firstborn ( Numbers 3:39-51 ). Numbers 3:39 ‘All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandm...
Numbers 3:42 - 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 3:42 - 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 3:42 - 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 3:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Numbers 3:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 3:42

Numbers 3:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 3:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 3:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 3:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 3:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 3:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 3:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 3:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 3:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 3:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 3:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge