Numbers 8:1, How the lamps are to be lighted; Numbers 8:5, The consecration of the Levites; Numbers 8:23, The age and time of their service.
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Numbers 8
Numbers 8 — Overview
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Numbers 8 — OverviewNumbers 8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter is concerning the lamps or lights of the sanctuary. I. The
burning lamps in the candlestick, which the priests were charged to
tend, ver. 1-4. II. The living lamps (if I may so call them), The…Numbers 8 — OverviewNumbers 8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter orders are given for the lighting the seven lamps of the candlestick, Nu 8:1; and for the consecration of the Levites to their office, by a purification of them, Nu 8:5; by a separation of them from the…Numbers 8:1-4Numbers 8:1-4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleDirections were given long before this for the making of the golden
candlestick (Exod. xxv. 31), and it was made according to the pattern
shown to Moses in the mount, Exod. xxxviii. 17. But now it was that the…Numbers 8:1Numbers 8:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe Lord spake unto Moses. It does not appear when. The attempt of modern commentators to find a real connection between this section and the offering of the princes or the consecration of the Levites is simply futile.…Numbers 8:1-4Numbers 8:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
THE LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS (Numbers 8:1-4).Numbers 8:1-4Numbers 8:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE SACRED LAMPS
In this section we have, spiritually, the Divine concern that the light of revelation should be made to shine out and to illumine the whole Church of God by the ministers of his word. Consider,…