Numbers 8:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

Numbers 8:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 8:3
And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exodus 40:12
And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
Exodus 29:4-37
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 5-26)

We read before of the separating of the Levites from among the children of Israel when they were numbered, and the numbering of them by themselves (Num. 3:6; 15), that they might be employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now here we have directions given for their solemn ordination (Num. 8:6), and the performance of it, Num. 8:20. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselv…

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

(vv. 9)

9-10. thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together, &c.--As it was plainly impossible that the whole multitude of the Israelites could do this, a select portion of them must be meant. This party, who laid their hands upon the Levites, are supposed by some to have been the first-born, who by that act, transferred their peculiar privilege of acting as God’s ministers to th…