Numbers 6:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. ”

• Numbers 6:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the volun...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the (d) head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. (d) Who...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Regulations for Nazirites. A Nazirite was one, whether man or woman (2), who undertook either for life or for a shorter time a vow to observe certain rules, involving various abstinences. An instan...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. And if any man die very suddenly. Here is prescribed what must be done, if a defilement should have been contracted which no precaution could have prevented. If a Nazarite should have wil...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

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• Numbers 6:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing— See chap. Numbers 8:7 . Leviticus 14:8 . Being rendered impure by touching the dead, he was to remain in that state for a week, and then shave...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. If any man die very suddenly by him. Cases of sudden death might occur to make him contract pollution; and in such circumstances he re...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Law of the Nazirite. The Priestly Benediction 1-21. The Law of the Nazirite. A Nazirite (from Heb. nazir , 'to separate') is a man or woman 'separated,' i.e consecrated to Jehovah by means o...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  NAZARITISM: THE BLESSING OF AARON Numbers 6:1-27 1. THE custom of Nazaritism, which tended to form a semi-religious caste, is obscure in its origin. The cases of Samson and Samuel imply that be...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Vow of Separation Numbers 6:1-12 The law of the Nazarite is full of instruction, because he is a type of the child of God who is separated from evil, that he may be wholly surrendered and g...

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• Numbers 6:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Having provided for the purity of the camp by the exclusion of the unclean, special instructions were given concerning cases of personal and voluntary devotion to a life of peculiar separation to God...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Secondarily and subordinately to the grand subject, of being typical to the ever blessed Nazarite, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, we may behold in this chapter, several circumstances which had a reference to...

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• Numbers 6:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And if any man die very suddenly by him ,.... In the place where he is, whether house or field, a public or private place, in the tent where he is, as Jarchi; there are two words we render, "very su...

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• Numbers 6:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. Ver. 9. A...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall shave his head Because his whole body, and especially his hair, was defiled by such an accident, which was to be imputed either to his own heedlessness, or to God's providence so ordering...

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• Numbers 6:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE NAZARITE VOW (vs.1-12) The vow of a Nazarite was voluntary, except in such cases as Samson and Samuel, both of whom were Nazarites from birth, by the decree of God ( Judges 13:5 ; 1 Samuel 1...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Law Concerning Nazarites. B. C. 1490.       1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,   2...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He shall shave his head, because his whole body, and especially his hair, was defiled by such an accident, which he ought to impute either to his own heedlessness, or at least to God's providence,...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  What To Do In The Case of an Accidental Breach of Vow ( Numbers 6:9-12 ). Numbers 6:9 “ And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall sh...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE VOW OF THE NAZARITE, OR ACCEPTABLE CONSECRATION TO GOD ( Numbers 6:1-8 ) “The previous chapter has provided for the exclusion from the pale of God’s people of certain forms of guilt and defil...

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• Numbers 6:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 6:2 . Man or woman vow a vow. A boy of thirteen, and a girl of eleven years of age might vow a vow unto the Lord, unless restrained by their father. A woman might also vow, unless restrain...

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• Numbers 6:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A vow of a Nazarite. The law of vows (with special reference to the Nazarite) 1. The principle of the vow is that God has placed earth’s good things at man’s disposal; and it is a becoming thin...

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• Numbers 6:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE VOW Or THE NAZIRITE ( Numbers 6:1-4 ). Note.— The Hebrew Nazir has been written Nazarite in English under the mistaken impression that there is some connection between...

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• Numbers 6:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Nazarite Vows

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• Numbers 6:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 18:18 ; Acts 21:23 ; Acts 21:24 ; Numbers 19:14-19 ; Numbers 6:18 ; Philippians 3:8 ; Philippians 3:9

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• Numbers 6:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He shall shave his head — Because his whole body, and especially his hair was defiled by such an accident, which he ought to impute either to his own heedlessness, or to God's providence so orderin...

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