Numbers 8:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 8

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 8:1 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Numbers 7:89 Numbers 8:2 →

Original word meaning

— of 4

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

No cross-references found for this verse.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Directions were given long before this for the making of the golden candlestick (Exod. 25:31), and it was made according to the pattern shown to Moses in the mount, Exod. 38:17. But now it was that the lamps were first ordered to be lighted, when other things began to be used. Observe, 1. Who must light the lamps; Aaron himself, he lighted the lamps, Num. 8:3. As the people’s representative to God…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Nu 8:1-4. How the Lamps Are to Be Lighted. 1. the Lord spake unto Moses--The order of this chapter suggests the idea that the following instructions were given to Moses while he was within the tabernacle of the congregation, after the princes had completed their offering. But from the tenor of the instructions, it is more likely that they were given immediately after the Levites had been given to…