Numbers 8:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: ”

Numbers 8:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levites could only undertake their duties Numbers 3 ; Numbers 4 after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-born Numbers 3:44-51 . The distinction between the “consecration” of...
Numbers 8:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the (e) children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: (e) Meaning, certain of them in the name of the whole.
Numbers 8:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Purification of the Levites. This differed from that of the priests (Exodus 29, Leviticus 8), for the Levites ( a) were only sprinkled with water instead of being washed altogether and anointe...
Numbers 8:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: Shall put their hands upon the Levites - It has been argued from this that the con...
Numbers 8:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites— That is, the children of Israel, by their rulers, who were their representatives. By this sign the children of Israel signified their...
Numbers 8:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: No JFB commentary on this verse.
Numbers 8:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Lighting of the Golden Lamps. The Consecration of the Levites 1-4. See on Exodus 25:31-40 ; Exodus 27:20 ; Exodus 27:21 . 5-26. This is the fulfilment of the injunetion in Numbers 3:5...
Numbers 8:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Shall put their hands upon the Levites. — The same phrase is here used as in Numbers 8:12 , and elsewhere, of the offerer who was required to lay his hand upon the victim which he offered in sacri...
Numbers 8:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11-13 , THE FIRST-BORN.
Numbers 8:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Lights in God's House; Clean Workmen Numbers 8:1-13 It is strange to come on this paragraph about the candlestick amid the preparations for leaving Sinai. But typically it is appropriate, becau...
Numbers 8:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having recorded the acts of the princes in offering their substance, the record proceeded to deal with the setting apart of the Levites as the special order of men whose persons and time were to be g...
Numbers 8:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Levites were before appointed to this service, and here is the form of their ordination. See Numbers 3:6 , etc. But let the Reader remark with me, the gospel feature strongly pointed out. The Le...
Numbers 8:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord ,.... From the door of the tabernacle, to the altar of burnt offering, where the Lord was in some sense present to accept the sacrifices offered to h...
Numbers 8:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: Ver. 10. Shall put their hands. ] Imposition of hands is an ancient rite at the...
Numbers 8:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The children of Israel Not all of them, which was impossible, but some in the name of all the princes or chiefs of each tribe, who used to transact things in the name of their tribes. Put their ha...
Numbers 8:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LAMPS (vs.1-4) It may seem strange that this one subject of the lampstand and the arranging of the lamps should be introduced in this place. But the previous Chapter s have...
Numbers 8:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Consecration of the Levites. B. C. 1490. 5 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying...
Numbers 8:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The children of Israel; not all of them, which was impossible, but some in the name and stead, and by the appointment of all, to wit, either the first-born, or rather the princes or chiefs of each...
Numbers 8:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Threefold Offering of the Levites As A Wave-offering to Yahweh ( Numbers 8:10-15 ). Numbers 8:10-11 “ And you shall present the Levites before Yahweh. And the children of Israel shall la...
Numbers 8:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Critical and Explanatory Notes Numbers 8:1-4 . (Compare Exodus 25:31-40 ; Exodus 27:20-21 ; Exodus 37:17-24 ; Exodus 40:24-25 ). Here we have the command to actually light the lamps, and the...
Numbers 8:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Numbers 8:5-6 . And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. These men were to be the servants of God; they are the type of God's e...
Numbers 8:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:7 . Water of purifying, or the water of sin, made with the ashes of the red heifer. Numbers 19:9 . Numbers 8:19 . To do the service. The great and awful work of expiation belongs...
Numbers 8:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES ( Numbers 8:5-4 ). Numbers 8:5 The Lord spake unto Moses. At some time subsequent to the command given in Numbers 3:6-4 , and no doub...
Numbers 8:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Purifying of the Levites
Numbers 8:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:14 ; 1 Timothy 5:22 ; Acts 13:2 ; Acts 13:3 ; Acts 6:6 ; Leviticus 1:4 ; Numbers 3:45
Numbers 8:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The children of Israel — Not all of them, which was impossible, but some in the name of all the princes or chiefs of each tribe, who used to transact things in the name of their tribes. Put their h...

Numbers 8:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 8:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 8:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Numbers 8:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 8:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 8:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 8:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes