Chapter 18:
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Introduction 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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Leviticus Deuteronomy
Numbers 18
Concise Complete
The charge of the priests and Levites. (1-7) The
priests' portion. (8-19) The Levites' portion. (20-32)
Verses 1-7 The
people complained of their difficulty and peril in drawing near to God. God here
gives them to understand, that the priests should come near for them. Aaron
would see reason not to be proud of his preferment, when he considered the great
care and charge upon him. Be not high-minded, but fear. The greater the trust of
work and power that is committed to us, the greater danger there is of betraying
that trust. This is a good reason why we should neither envy others' honours,
nor desire high places.
Verses 8-19 All
believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them.
Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here
made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian
churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous
ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted
from it, or disturbed in it, by worldly care or business. Also, that they might
be examples of living by faith, not only in God's providence, but in his
ordinances. The best should be offered for the first-fruits unto the Lord. Those
who think to save, by putting God off with the refuse, deceive themselves, for
God is not mocked.
Verses 20-32 As
Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to
be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and
their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon
the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of
their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver.
31, the way to have
comfort in all our worldly possessions, so as to bear no sin by reason of them.
1. We must be sure that what we have is got honestly and in the service of God.
That meat is best eaten which is first earned;
2 thessaloniansWe
must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of our
substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by
reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should give alms of such
things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us.
Chapter 18:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Leviticus Deuteronomy
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