19Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD. …
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law: …
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. …
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. …
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-32)There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcated as this, by which they are all tied to bring their sacrifices to that one altar which was set up in the court of the tabernacle, and there to perform all the rituals of their religion; for, as to moral services, then, no doubt, as now, men might pray every where, as they did in their s…
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