Numbers 18

Duty without fervency is as a sacrifice without fire; we should ascend to Heaven in a fiery chariot of devotion. 5. We do God's will as the angels in Heaven, when we give God the best in every service (Numbers 18:29): Out of all your gifts, you shall offer of all the best thereo…

And that which is recorded of him on other accounts, is so far from having respect to his right to the priesthood of the Law, that it directly proves and demonstrates that he had none. For his genealogy is evidently of the Tribe of Judah, which was excluded legally from that off…

The tithes therefore that were paid to the Levites were in the original grant of all to the priests. (3.) The priests tithed the whole people in that tenth of all which they received of the Levites; and that being given to them, what remained in the possession of the Levites the…

And some offerings, as those at the Feast of Expiation, were appropriated to the High Priests only. So is the case stated by Azariah the High Priest (2 Chronicles 26:18), Not to you Uzziah to burn incense to the Lord, but to the Priests the Sons of Aaron who are consecrated, fro…

And this may be added further, that this place seems not only to be meant of the private or personal conversion of this or that particular Christian, but also further, of the open and joint calling of a company, because it is said, they shall come, the children of Israel and the…

Another root is held to mean "to choose" and "to purify," by Mercerus at the root entry. Whatever its origin, the word often signifies a bare "promise," 2 Samuel 23:5; Jeremiah 31:31, 32; also a gratuitous and irrevocable "gift," Numbers 18:9; and a "statute" or decree of God, J…

For He had strictly forbidden that anyone who was not of the natural seed of Aaron should ever dare to undertake that office (Numbers 16:40). Moreover, He gave authority to that law by setting forth dreadful examples against those who had dared to intrude upon the priestly admin…

The last appointment of God occasioned by the mercy solemnly remembered in the § 22 Passover, was the dedication of all the first-born males to himself. The Law of this dedication is recorded (Exodus 13:12, 13), and the manner of its performance is farther added (Numbers 18:15,…

2. That being built, it should be reverenced (Leviticus 19:30). 3. That the Priests and Levites always keep the Temple, and no others (Numbers 18:2). 4. That the work or ministry of the Temple be performed by the Levites (Numbers 18:23).

For if all your comfort and happiness lies in God, all your diligence and care will be to please God. God was the portion of the Levites, it is said, because they ministered before him (Numbers 18:20). So it is true of the spiritual Levites — they that are careful to walk with G…

And God made another law in favor of the poor (Deuteronomy 14:28): At the end of three years you shall bring forth the tithe of your increase that same year and shall lay it up within your gates, and the Levite and the fatherless and the widow within your gates shall come and ea…

1. The judicial law may be considered, so far as concerns the distinction of the Jews from the Gentiles, and the typical signification of the kingdom of Christ; or only so much as belongs to the form of civil government. Now the judicial law, according to the first acception, is…

And the goat shall bear upon him all the iniquities of the children of Israel to a land not inhabited. The priest prayed that the sins, that is, the punishment of the sins of the people might be laid on the goat (Numbers 18:1). Aaron and his sons are to bear the iniquity of the…

Again, the reason alleged does not follow: for sometimes the Holy Ghost uses a reason that is perpetual, to enforce a ceremony. That Levi should have no part, nor inheritance among his brethren, was a ceremony commanded by God; and yet the Lord enforces it, with a reason that wa…