64 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon,.... Which they should execute when the camp and tabernacle were in motion: in the tabernacle of the congregation in the court; where they should take up their burdens, or which lie in things respecting the tabernacle; this was the part they were to be employed in, namely, in taking care...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As for the sons of Merari,.... The third and youngest son of Levi: thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; which is the form of expression used of them all; [See comments on Numbers 4:2].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward,.... The Septuagint version here, and in Numbers 4:3, renders it, from twenty five years old and upward, agreeable to Numbers 8:24, at the which age the Levites went into the tabernacle, to wait and to learn their business, but they did not enter upon it till thirty; even unto fifty years old shalt thou number...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And this [is] the charge of their burden,.... What should be committed to their care and charge, and they should bear and carry: according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which was assigned to them as their part, and which was very heavy and cumbersome, and therefore they had wagons allowed them, Numbers 7:8; the boards...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords,.... These belonged to the court of the tabernacle; the pillars were what the hangings were hung upon, and the sockets, into which the pillars were set, and the and cords, with which the hangings were fastened; see Exodus 27:9; with all their instruments,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari,.... The Mahlites and Mushites, namely, the service before observed, the particulars of which are given: according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; agreeably to what was allotted to them in that part of the tabernacle they were concerned in: under the hand of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Moses and Aaron, and the chief of the congregation, numbered the sons of the Kohathites,.... Perhaps these chiefs were the same with those who were concerned with Moses and Aaron in numbering all the tribes whose names were given, Numbers 1:5; the Kohathites are begun with, according to the divine direction, and then the Gershonites and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And those that were numbered of them by their families,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even those that were numbered of them,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34];
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [are] they that were numbered of the families,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34];
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34];
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even those that were numbered of them after their families,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [be] those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34];