Numbers 8:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And from the age of fifty years they shall ceased waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: ”

• Numbers 8:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the (k) service [thereof], and shall serve no more: (k) Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.

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• Numbers 8:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Age-Limit for the Levites'service. The limits here given (25 and 50) differ from those fixed in ch. 4 (where they are 30 and 50). Numbers 8:24 . This is that which belongeth unto: read (Vu...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof , and shall serve no more:

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• Numbers 8:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: From ... fifty ... they shall cease waiting ... - i:e., on the laborious and exhaus...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11-13 , THE FIRST-BORN.

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• Numbers 8:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Consecrated to God's Service Numbers 8:14-26 The Levites may be taken to represent the Church as distinguished from the rest of mankind, or the little band of pastors, teachers, and missionarie...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The age of twenty five, from whence this dedication to the LORD'S service began, was meant no doubt, to point out the ripeness of age, required for his sacred employment. The apostle hath given the l...

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• Numbers 8:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service [thereof] ,.... The heavy service of it: and shall serve no more ; by bearing and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary up...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  From the age of fifty they shall cease waiting Shall be excused from carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle, and all the toilsome duties of the service, and shall only give advice and dir...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Consecration of the Levites. B. C. 1490.       5 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying...

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• Numbers 8:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Upon the difficult and cumbersome part of their work.

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• Numbers 8:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Limits on Levite Ministry ( Numbers 8:23-26 ). The soldiers of Israel commenced their responsibilities at twenty years old, but the work of the Levites was so sacred that they had to be more matu...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Levites; from twenty and five years. Service I. The service God demands of all levites. 1. Burden-bearing. 2. Singing. 3. Study of the law, “Search the Scriptures.” 4. Attendanc...

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• Numbers 8:25 - 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...

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• Numbers 8:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Age at Which the Levites Served

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• Numbers 8:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 4:7 ; Numbers 4:23

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