Numbers 8:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. ”

Numbers 8:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The actual lighting of the lamps (compare the marginal references) was to be done to set forth symbolically the special presence which God had now Numbers 7:89 actually established among His peop...
Numbers 8:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light (a) over against the candlestick. (a) To that part which is in the forefront of the candlestick, (...
Numbers 8:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Directions Relating to the Candlestick. An account of the candlestick (really a lampstand) is contained in Exodus 25:31-40 *. Numbers 8:2 . lightest: render as in mg. (and so in Numbers 8...
Numbers 8:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the . the face of the. candlestick . light-holder (as in Genesis 1:14 ), or lampstand. Compare Exodus 25:31-39 ; Exodus 37:17-24 .
Numbers 8:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 When thou lightest the lamps. This precept, like many others, is not inserted in its proper place. Moses again declares what was the use of the candlestick, and how the lamps should be arr...
Numbers 8:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. The seven lamps shall give light - The whole seven shall be lighted at...
Numbers 8:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When thou lightest the lamps, &c.— Houbigant thinks that the stress here is to be laid upon the word seven; and that the meaning is, "when thou lightest the lamps of the candlestick, take car...
Numbers 8:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. Speak unto Aaron ... The candlestick, which was made of one sol...
Numbers 8:2 - 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 8:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

VIII. (2) When thou lightest the lamps. — Better, When thou settest up the lamps. (Comp. Exodus 25:37 .) The golden candlestick was placed against the south wall of the Tabernacle, opposite t...
Numbers 8:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. THE CANDELABRUM Numbers 8:1-4 The seven-branched candlestick with its lamps stood in the outer chamber of the tabernacle into which the priests had frequently to go. When the curtain at the...
Numbers 8:2 - 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 8:2 - 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 8:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If the Reader will consult Exodus 25:31 he will find similar directions given concerning this service. But it was here that the first precept is given of the order for lighting the lamps. But let t...
Numbers 8:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him ,.... It being his work to light the lamps, though, as Ben Gersom observes, it was not incumbent on an high priest alone to do this, for it also belonged to the so...
Numbers 8:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When thou lightest the lamps The priests lighted the middle lamp from the fire of the altar, and the rest one from another. Thus, all light and knowledge comes from Christ, who has the seven spiri...
Numbers 8:2 - 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 8:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Lights of the Sanctuary. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2...
Numbers 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Either, 1. On every side of the candlestick. So the candlestick is here put for the bulk or shaft of the candlestick, as Exodus 25:31,35 , and the lamps, when they were lighted, were put...
Numbers 8:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 8 Yahweh's Further Response. The One represented by the Voice now set aside three things in order to manifest Himself to His people, the lampstand, the Levites and the Passover. The lamps...
Numbers 8:2 - 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 8:2 - 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 8:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

When thou lightest the lamps. The golden candlestick an emblem of the Church of God I. The preciousness and sacredness of the church of God. II. The light of the church of God. III. The m...
Numbers 8:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS ( Numbers 8:1-4 ). Numbers 8:1 The Lord spake unto Moses. It does not appear when. The attempt of modern commentators to find a real connec...
Numbers 8:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lighting of the Sanctuary Lamps
Numbers 8:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:19 ; Exodus 25:37 ; Exodus 37:18 ; Exodus 37:19 ; Exodus 37:23 ; Exodus 40:25 ; Isaiah 8:20 ; John 1:9 ; Leviticus 24:1 ; Leviticus 24:2 ; Matthew 5:14 ; Psalms 119:105 ; Psalm...
Numbers 8:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

When thou lightest the lamps — The priests lighted the middle lamp from the fire of the altar; and the rest one from another; signifying that all light and knowledge comes from Christ, who has the...

Numbers 8:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 8:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 8:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 8:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 8:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 8:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 8:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 8:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 8:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 8:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes