PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Numbers
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 203,866 words · 574 reading sections
Numbers 3:23
Numbers 3:23 Ver. 23. The families of the Gershonites,.... The two before mentioned, the Libnites and Shimites:shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward; this was their situation when encamped; they were placed in the rear of the camp of the Levites, between the tabernacle and the camp of Ephraim, which was westward …
3,974 wordsSECTION 62Numbers 4:1
Numbers 4:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 4 This chapter relates an order to number the Levites fit for business, and gives an account of the time and age when they should enter into service, and how long they should continue therein, Nu 4:1; what their particular service should be; and first of the Kohathites, Nu 4:4; nex…
181 wordsSECTION 63Numbers 4:2
Numbers 4:2 Ver. 2. Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi,.... They were to begin with them first, and number them: after their families, by the house of their fathers; as many as were of the age after mentioned; and the reason why they began with Kohath, and not Gershon, the eldest son, as i…
215 wordsSECTION 64Numbers 4:3
Numbers 4:3 Ver. 3. From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,.... This is the full time of the Levites service, and the prime season of man's life for business; at thirty years of age he is at his full strength, and when fifty it begins to decline: it is said in the Misnah {x}, "a son of thirty yea…
327 wordsSECTION 65Numbers 4:4
Numbers 4:4 Ver. 4. This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath, in the tabernacle of the congregation,.... What follows, Nu 4:4; [about] the most holy things; which Aben Ezra interprets only of the ark, which was indeed a most holy thing, and stood in the most holy place; but there were other holy things, in t…
103 wordsSECTION 66Numbers 4:5
Numbers 4:5 Ver. 5. And when the camp setteth forward,.... Upon the cloud's removing and the trumpets blowing: Aaron shall come, and his sons; into the holy place: and they shall take down the covering vail: the vail that divided between the holy and the most holy place, which covered all in the holy of holies out o…
176 wordsSECTION 67Numbers 4:6
Numbers 4:6 Ver. 6. And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins,.... Not that which covered the tabernacle, for that was committed to the Gershonites, Nu 4:25; but a covering made of these on purpose for the present use, to preserve the ark from rain and dust; and this covering was put not immediately upon th…
343 wordsSECTION 68Numbers 4:7
Numbers 4:7 Ver. 7. And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue,.... That that also might not be seen nor touched by the Levites: and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the covers to cover withal: all which belonged to the shewbread table; the use of which, See Gill on "E…
185 wordsSECTION 69Numbers 4:8
Numbers 4:8 Ver. 8. And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet,.... Upon the dishes and other vessels belonging to the shewbread table, and on the shewbread itself: and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins; this was clearly the outward covering, and seems to confirm the observation made in Nu 4:6;…
140 wordsSECTION 70Numbers 4:9
Numbers 4:9 Ver. 9. And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps,.... Which had lamps in it, and were continually lighted, and gave light in the holy place: and his tongs, and his snuff dishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it; by supplying…
68 wordsSECTION 71Numbers 4:10
Numbers 4:10 Ver. 10. And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof, within a covering of badgers' skins,.... Which here also was the outermost covering; the ark and the shewbread table had three coverings, but the candlestick only two, they being more sacred than that, especially the ark: and shall put [it] upo…
107 wordsSECTION 72Numbers 4:11
Numbers 4:11 Ver. 11. And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,.... The altar of incense, which was overlaid with gold, and therefore called a golden one, to which the allusion is in Re 8:3; and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins; after the cloth of blue was spread upon it: and shall put t…
82 wordsSECTION 73Numbers 4:12
Numbers 4:12 Ver. 12. And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary,.... The garments in which the priests, ministered in the sanctuary, which were laid up in proper places, and which they only wore when in service: and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with…
95 wordsSECTION 74Numbers 4:13
Numbers 4:13 Ver. 13. And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon. Having cleared the holy of holies, and the holy place, they were to come forth from thence into the court of the tabernacle, where stood the altar of burnt offering, which is here meant, and on which sacrifices …
143 wordsSECTION 75Numbers 4:14
Numbers 4:14 Ver. 14. And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof,.... Upon the altar covered with a blue cloth; on that were to be put everything belonging to the altar: wherewith they minister about it; the priests, when they offered sacrifice on it: [even] the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and …
250 wordsSECTION 76Numbers 4:15
Numbers 4:15 Ver. 15. And when Aaron and his sons had made an end of covering the sanctuary,.... Not the holy place, nor the most holy place, for these were not covered by them; but "the holy things" in them, as the Septuagint version, the ark, shewbread table, &c. and all "the vessels of the sanctuary"; all appertain…
219 wordsSECTION 77Numbers 4:16
Numbers 4:16 Ver. 16. And to the office of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, [pertaineth] the oil for the light,.... The following things, to bear them, according to some Jewish writers; but rather it was to give the oil for the light, that is, the vessels, and so the vessels of the oil to the sons of the Kohathit…
2,890 wordsSECTION 78Numbers 5:1
Numbers 5:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 5 This chapter contains a repetition of some former laws, concerning putting unclean persons out of the camp, Nu 5:1; making restitution in case of trespass against another, Nu 5:5; and of giving the offering of all holy things and all hallowed things to the priests, Nu 5:9; and a …
191 wordsSECTION 79Numbers 5:2
Numbers 5:2 Ver. 2. Command the children of Israel,.... Not as from himself, but from the Lord; deliver out the following as a command of his, to which obedience was required of all the children of Israel: that they put out of the camp every leper; there were three camps, Jarchi says, in the time of their encampment;…
247 wordsSECTION 80Numbers 5:3
Numbers 5:3 Ver. 3. Both male and female shall ye put out,.... Whether leprous, or profluvious, or defiled by touching a dead carcass: by this law, Miriam, when leprous, was put out of the camp, Nu 12:14; without the camp shall ye put them; which is repeated that it might be taken notice of, and punctually observed: …
187 wordsSECTION 81Numbers 5:4
Numbers 5:4 Ver. 4. And the children of Israel did so, and put them without the camp,.... Aben Ezra observes, that this was done immediately before they journeyed, and that those that were defiled journeyed between the standard of Ephraim and the standard of Dan; but this, he says, was by way of conjecture, since it i…
78 wordsSECTION 82Numbers 5:5
Numbers 5:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Or continued to speak to him at the same time: saying; as follows.…
24 wordsSECTION 83Numbers 5:6
Numbers 5:6 Ver. 6. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... Put them in mind of the following law, that they observe it; and which is here repeated, because of two new things in it, as Jarchi observes, the one relates to confession, teaching that there is no fifth part nor trespass offering by witnesses, till a man con…
268 wordsSECTION 84Numbers 5:7
Numbers 5:7 Ver. 7. Then they shall confess their sin which they have done,.... The form of which confession, according to Fagius, was, O Lord, I am guilty of death, I have deserved to be stoned for this sin, or to be strangled for this trespass, or to be burnt for this crime, &c. and he shall recompense his trespass…
148 wordsSECTION 85Numbers 5:8
Numbers 5:8 Ver. 8. But if a man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to,.... This supposes that if a man should die, against whom the trespass is, before the restitution is made, then it shall be made to his heirs; and if he has none, then it was to be given to the priest, as after directed: the Jews {g} genera…
315 wordsSECTION 86Numbers 5:9
Numbers 5:9 Ver. 9. And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel,.... Of the holy sacrifices brought by them to be offered up; that part of them which is elevated, heaved, or waved, as the heave shoulder and wave breast: which they bring unto the priest, shall be his; what they bring to him to …
80 wordsSECTION 87Numbers 5:10
Numbers 5:10 Ver. 10. And every man's hallowed things shall be his,.... Which he, by a vow or freewill offering, separates to holy uses; these are at his own dispose, to give to what priest he will, or they are the priest's; for what a man devotes to the Lord is to be given to them, or such things as God has hallowed,…
131 wordsSECTION 88Numbers 5:11
Numbers 5:11 Ver. 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, and delivered to him a new law: saying; as follows.…
25 wordsSECTION 89Numbers 5:12
Numbers 5:12 Ver. 12. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... It being an affair which concerned them: if any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him; the sin of adultery, which is a going aside out of the way of virtue and chastity, and a trespass against an husband, a breach of the …
405 wordsSECTION 90Numbers 5:13
Numbers 5:13 Ver. 13. And a man lie with her carnally,.... That is, is suspected that he has so done, not that it is a clear case, for it follows; and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close; so that it is not known by her husband, nor by any other; "she hath hid herself", so Ainsworth, being in a p…
121 wordsSECTION 91Numbers 5:14
Numbers 5:14 Ver. 14. And the spirit of jealousy come upon him,.... A thought rises up in his mind, a strong suspicion works in him, which he cannot resist and throw off, but it remains with him, and makes him very uneasy, that his wife has defiled his bed, as it follows: and he be jealous of his wife, and she be def…
159 wordsSECTION 92Numbers 5:15
Numbers 5:15 Ver. 15. Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest,.... Not to the high priest but to a common priest, anyone then officiating in his course; for there was a jealousy offering to be offered up before the Lord upon the altar, which none but a priest might do; and besides, the whole process in this …
597 wordsSECTION 93Numbers 5:16
Numbers 5:16 Ver. 16. And the priest shall bring her near,.... Or "offer it", as the Vulgate Latin version, that is, the offering of jealousy: and set her before the Lord; or "it", the offering; for which the Tigurine version is more express, "let the priest offer that sacrifice, and set that before the Lord,'' for…
72 wordsSECTION 94Numbers 5:17
Numbers 5:17 Ver. 17. And the priest shall take holy water,.... Out of the laver, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra: in an earthen vessel; which held half a log, and that was but a quarter of a pint, or three egg shells; for no more was assigned, to a suspected woman, according to th…
294 wordsSECTION 95Numbers 5:18
Numbers 5:18 Ver. 18. And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord,.... In the east of the tabernacle, with her face to the west, where was the holy of holies, so Ben Gersom; but not immediately for they had her from place to place, as Jarchi says, till she was weary, and her mind disturbed, that she might confe…
422 wordsSECTION 96Numbers 5:19
Numbers 5:19 Ver. 19. And the priest shall charge her by an oath,.... Or give her her oath:and say unto the woman, if no man hath lain with thee: besides her husband:and thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of thy husband; which is but another phrase expressive of the same thing, the sin of a…
2,798 wordsSECTION 97Numbers 6:1
Numbers 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 6 In this chapter is given the law concerning Nazarites, Nu 6:1; which directs what they were to abstain from, from drinking wine, or any strong liquors, from shaving their heads, and defiling themselves with the dead, Nu 6:3; and in case of a defilement, directions are given what …
229 wordsSECTION 98Numbers 6:2
Numbers 6:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Whom the following law only concerned, and not Gentiles; so runs the Jewish canon, "the Gentiles have no Nazariteship, though they may bring their vows and freewill offerings as an Israelite, yet if they vow the vow of a Nazarite, the law o…
534 wordsSECTION 99Numbers 6:3
Numbers 6:3 Ver. 3. He shall separate [himself] from wine,.... Old or new, as Ben Gersom; from drinking it, any of it: not only from an immoderate and excessive drinking of it, which every man should abstain from, but from drinking of it at all, that he might be more free and fit for the service of God; for prayer, me…
319 wordsSECTION 100Numbers 6:4
Numbers 6:4 Ver. 4. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree,.... Of its leaves, branches, and fruit, especially the latter, put into any sort of food, or infused into any liquor, or mixed with any sauce for food: the days or time of separation were according as the vow was mad…
273 wordsSECTION 101Numbers 6:5
Numbers 6:5 Ver. 5. All the days of the vow of his separation,.... Be the time he has vowed to be a Nazarite a week, a, month, or more, even a thousand days, but not less than thirty, as Ben Gersom observes: there shall no razor come upon his head; he might not shave his beard, nor cut off his locks, and shave his he…
525 wordsSECTION 102Numbers 6:6
Numbers 6:6 Ver. 6. All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the Lord,.... This phrase is repeated at every new article and branch of the law of the Nazarites, of which what follows is the third; showing that each part of it, during that time, was strictly to be observed: he shall come at no dead body: not near…
143 wordsSECTION 103Numbers 6:7
Numbers 6:7 Ver. 7. He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die,.... Aben Ezra adds also, for his wife, and for his daughter, and for others; what even the priests of the Lord, the common priests might do, a Nazarite might not, not come near any …
279 wordsSECTION 104Numbers 6:8
Numbers 6:8 Ver. 8. All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the Lord. Set apart for his service, separate from all others, especially the dead, and under obligation to abstain from the above things; from drinking wine, from shaving his hair, and from defiling himself for the dead, and to be employed in holy a…
69 wordsSECTION 105Numbers 6:9
Numbers 6:9 Ver. 9. And if any man die very suddenly by him,.... In the place where he is, whether house or field, a public or private place, in the tent where he is, as Jarchi; there are two words we render, "very suddenly", which many take to be synonymous; and that being of the same signification, two being used in…
408 wordsSECTION 106Numbers 6:10
Numbers 6:10 Ver. 10. And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest,.... Not a turtledove and a young pigeon, as Ben Gersom observes, but two of one of the sorts, which was the offering of the poorer sort of childbearing women at their purification, and of profluvious persons, men…
165 wordsSECTION 107Numbers 6:11
Numbers 6:11 Ver. 11. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,.... That is, one of the turtles or young pigeons for the one kind of sacrifice, and one for the other sort; both being necessary; the one to expiate sin, and the other as a gift to God by way of thankfulnes…
171 wordsSECTION 108Numbers 6:12
Numbers 6:12 Ver. 12. And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation,.... He was to begin his account again, from the time of his shaving his head, and devote as many days to the service of the Lord as what he had vowed before: and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering; we see…
272 wordsSECTION 109Numbers 6:13
Numbers 6:13 Ver. 13. And this [is] the law of the Nazarite,.... This has respect either to what goes before; those are the things he is obliged to that vows the vow of a Nazarite; what he is to abstain from during the time of his vow, and what he is to do in case of any defilement; or to what follows after, what is b…
193 wordsSECTION 110Numbers 6:14
Numbers 6:14 Ver. 14. And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord,.... The Nazarite was to present his offering at the door of the tabernacle, to the priest, in order to be offered for him to the Lord: one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering; according to the law, manner, and custom of a …
337 wordsSECTION 111Numbers 6:15
Numbers 6:15 Ver. 15. And a basket of unleavened bread,.... As at the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Ex 29:2; though for peace offerings for thanksgiving leavened bread was offered, Le 7:13; cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil; ten of each sort, as Jarchi says, …
82 wordsSECTION 112Numbers 6:16
Numbers 6:16 Ver. 16. And the priest shall bring [them] before the Lord,.... All the above offerings to the altar of burnt offering, and there present them to the Lord in the name of the Nazarite: and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: here they stand in the proper order in which they were offered.…
59 wordsSECTION 113Numbers 6:17
Numbers 6:17 Ver. 17. And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord,.... After he had offered the other two: with the basket of unleavened bread; which went along with that: the priest shall also offer his meat offering, and his drink offering: of which he had his part, and were the u…
68 wordsSECTION 114Numbers 6:18
Numbers 6:18 Ver. 18. And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, "and the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation without,'' without the tabernacle, the door of it, where the people assembled together; so that t…
332 wordsSECTION 115Numbers 6:19
Numbers 6:19 Ver. 19. And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram,.... The left shoulder, for the right shoulder, which is the heave shoulder of every peace offering, belonged to the priest by another law; and by this law of the Nazarite, he had also the other shoulder, and so had both, which was peculiar…
1,678 wordsSECTION 116Numbers 7:1
Numbers 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 7 This chapter gives an account of the presents brought, by the princes of the twelve tribes at the setting up of the tabernacle, for the use of it, Nu 7:1; and at the dedication of the altar, and the service of that, Nu 7:10; first of the prince of the tribe of Judah, Nu 7:12; the…
585 wordsSECTION 117Numbers 7:2
Numbers 7:2 Ver. 2. That the princes of Israel,.... The princes of the twelve tribes of Israel: heads of the house of their fathers; of the each of the houses and families the tribes were divided into, and took their name from each of their ancestors, as is next explained: who were princes of the tribes; the twelve …
171 wordsSECTION 118Numbers 7:3
Numbers 7:3 Ver. 3. And they brought their offering before the Lord,.... Before the tabernacle, as it is afterwards explained, where he had now taken up his habitation: six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; according to the number of the twelve tribes, of which they were princes, two oxen for each wagon, which were to…
315 wordsSECTION 119Numbers 7:4
Numbers 7:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Out of the tabernacle, before which the wagons and oxen were brought: saying: as follows.…
26 wordsSECTION 120Numbers 7:5
Numbers 7:5 Ver. 5. Take [it] of them,.... The present of the wagons and oxen, by which it appears that this freewill offering of the princes was according to his mind and will, and what they were influenced and guided to by his Spirit, and was well pleasing in his sight, and acceptable to him: that they may be to do…
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