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Selected Verse: Numbers 4:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 4:20 |
Strong Concordance |
But they shall not go in [0935] to see [07200] when the holy things [06944] are covered [01104], lest they die [04191]. |
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King James |
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| to see when the holy things are covered - Render: to see the holy things for an instant. The expression means Iiterally" as a gulp," i. e. for the instant it takes to swallow. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
כּבלּע, "like a swallow, a gulp," is probably a proverbial expression, according to the analogy of Job 7:19, for "a single instant," of which the Arabic also furnishes examples (see A. Schultens on Job 7:19). The Sept. rendering, ἐξάπινα, conveys the actual sense. A historical illustration of Num 4:20 is furnished by Sa1 6:19.
(Note: According to Knobel, Num 4:17-20 have been interpolated by the Jehovist into the Elohistic text. But the reasons for this assumption are weak throughout. Neither the peculiar use of the word shebet, to which there is no corresponding parallel in the whole of the Old Testament, nor the construction of נגשׁ with את, which is only met with in Sa1 9:18 and Sa1 30:21, nor the Hiphil הכרית, can be regarded as criteria of a Jehovistic usage. And the assertion, that the Elohist lays the emphasis upon approaching and touching the holy things (Num 4:15; Num 8:19; Num 18:3, Num 18:22), and not upon seeing or looking at them, rests upon an antithesis which is arbitrarily forced upon the text, since not only seeing (Num 4:20), but touching also (Num 4:19), is described as causing death; so that seeing and touching form no antithesis at all.) |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| When the holy things are covered - Literally, כבלע keballa, when they are swallowed down; which shows the promptitude with which every thing belonging to the holy of holies was put out of sight, for these mysteries must ever be treated with the deepest reverence; and indeed without this they could not have been to them the representatives of heavenly realities. See the concluding note Num 4:36 (note). |
19 But thus do [06213] unto them, that they may live [02421], and not die [04191], when they approach [05066] unto the most [06944] holy things [06944]: Aaron [0175] and his sons [01121] shall go in [0935], and appoint [07760] them every [0376] one [0376] to his service [05656] and to his burden [04853]:
20 But they shall not go in [0935] to see [07200] when the holy things [06944] are covered [01104], lest they die [04191].
22 Neither must the children [01121] of Israel [03478] henceforth [05750] come nigh [07126] the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150], lest they bear [05375] sin [02399], and die [04191].
3 And they shall keep [08104] thy charge [04931], and the charge [04931] of all the tabernacle [0168]: only they shall not come nigh [07126] the vessels [03627] of the sanctuary [06944] and the altar [04196], that neither they, nor ye also, die [04191].
19 And I have given [05414] the Levites [03881] as a gift [05414] to Aaron [0175] and to his sons [01121] from among [08432] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], to do [05647] the service [05656] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150], and to make an atonement [03722] for the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: that there be no plague [05063] among the children [01121] of Israel [03478], when the children [01121] of Israel [03478] come nigh [05066] unto the sanctuary [06944].
15 And when Aaron [0175] and his sons [01121] have made an end [03615] of covering [03680] the sanctuary [06944], and all the vessels [03627] of the sanctuary [06944], as the camp [04264] is to set forward [05265]; after [0310] that, the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955] shall come [0935] to bear [05375] it: but they shall not touch [05060] any holy thing [06944], lest they die [04191]. These things are the burden [04853] of the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955] in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150].
21 And David [01732] came [0935] to the two hundred [03967] men [0582], which were so faint [06296] that they could not follow [03212] [0310] David [01732], whom they had made also to abide [03427] at the brook [05158] Besor [01308]: and they went forth [03318] to meet [07125] David [01732], and to meet [07125] the people [05971] that were with him: and when David [01732] came near [05066] to the people [05971], he saluted [07592] [07965] them.
18 Then Saul [07586] drew near [05066] to Samuel [08050] in [08432] the gate [08179], and said [0559], Tell [05046] me, I pray thee, where [0335] the seer's [07200] house [01004] is.
17 And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] and unto Aaron [0175], saying [0559],
18 Cut ye not off [03772] the tribe [07626] of the families [04940] of the Kohathites [06956] from among [08432] the Levites [03881]:
19 But thus do [06213] unto them, that they may live [02421], and not die [04191], when they approach [05066] unto the most [06944] holy things [06944]: Aaron [0175] and his sons [01121] shall go in [0935], and appoint [07760] them every [0376] one [0376] to his service [05656] and to his burden [04853]:
20 But they shall not go in [0935] to see [07200] when the holy things [06944] are covered [01104], lest they die [04191].
19 And he smote [05221] the men [0376] of Bethshemesh [01053], because they had looked [07200] into the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068], even he smote [05221] of the people [05971] fifty [02572] thousand [0505] and threescore and ten [07657] men [0582]: and the people [05971] lamented [056], because the LORD [03068] had smitten [05221] many of the people [05971] with a great [01419] slaughter [04347].
20 But they shall not go in [0935] to see [07200] when the holy things [06944] are covered [01104], lest they die [04191].
19 How long [04100] wilt thou not depart [08159] from me, nor let me alone [07503] till I swallow down [01104] my spittle [07536]?
19 How long [04100] wilt thou not depart [08159] from me, nor let me alone [07503] till I swallow down [01104] my spittle [07536]?
36 And those that were numbered [06485] of them by their families [04940] were two thousand [0505] seven [07651] hundred [03967] and fifty [02572].