Numbers 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

In the time of Aaron's life, as this phrase is taken, Numbers 3:4; see also Psalms 72:5,17; and under their father's inspection and direction, and as their father's servants or ministers in the priest's office; for servants are oft described by this phrase of being, or standing, or serving in the sight or presence, we of their master.

Numbers 3:4

4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.