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Selected Verse: Numbers 3:32 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 3:32 |
King James |
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| chief--rather, "chiefs" of the Levites. Three persons are mentioned as chiefs of these respective divisions [Num 3:24, Num 3:30, Num 3:35]. And Eleazar presided over them; whence he is called "the second priest" (Kg2 25:18); and in the case of the high priest's absence from illness or other necessary occasions, he performed the duties (Kg1 4:4). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| As the priests also formed part of the Kohathites, their chief is mentioned as well, viz., Eleazar the eldest son of Aaron the high priest, who was placed over the chiefs of the three Levitical families, and called פּקדּה, oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary," i.e., authority, superior, of the servants of the sanctuary. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Chief - Next under the high - priest; whence he is called the second priest, Kg2 25:18, and in case of the high - priest's absence by sickness or other necessary occasions, he was to perform his work, and he had a superiority over all the rest of the priests and Levites. The chief of the Levites - That is, over those three persons, who were each the chief of their several families, Num 3:24, Num 3:31, Num 3:34. |
4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: