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Selected Verse: Numbers 4:28 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 4:28 |
Strong Concordance |
This is the service [05656] of the families [04940] of the sons [01121] of Gershon [01649] in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150]: and their charge [04931] shall be under the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] the priest [03548]. |
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King James |
This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. |
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] |
| their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron, &c.--The Levites were generally subject to the official command of the priests in doing the ordinary work of the tabernacle. But during the journeyings Eleazar, who was next in succession to his father, took the special charge of the Kohathites [Num 4:16], while his brother Ithamar had the superintendence of the Gershonites and Merarites [Num 4:33]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Gershonites and Merarites are superintended by Ithamar, Aaron's younger son, who had already had the oversight of the tabernacle in its construction Exo 38:21. Thus, readily do the permanent offices of the leaders of the Israelite community spring out of the duties which, under the emergencies of the first year of the Exodus, they had been led, from time to time, to undertake.
Num 4:32
By name ye shall reckon the instruments - Or, assign them to their bearers singly, and "by name." These "instruments" comprised the heavier parts of the tabernacle; and the order seems intended to prevent individual Merarites choosing their own burden, and so throwing more than the proper share on others. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| "Their charge (mishmereth) is in the hand of Ithamar," i.e., is to be carried out under his superintendence (cf. Exo 38:21). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Under the hand - Under his conduct and direction. |
33 This is the service [05656] of the families [04940] of the sons [01121] of Merari [04847], according to all their service [05656], in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150], under the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] the priest [03548].
16 And to the office [06486] of Eleazar [0499] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] the priest [03548] pertaineth the oil [08081] for the light [03974], and the sweet [05561] incense [07004], and the daily [08548] meat offering [04503], and the anointing [04888] oil [08081], and the oversight [06486] of all the tabernacle [04908], and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary [06944], and in the vessels [03627] thereof.
32 And the pillars [05982] of the court [02691] round about [05439], and their sockets [0134], and their pins [03489], and their cords [04340], with all their instruments [03627], and with all their service [05656]: and by name [08034] ye shall reckon [06485] the instruments [03627] of the charge [04931] of their burden [04853].
21 This [0428] is the sum [06485] of the tabernacle [04908], even of the tabernacle [04908] of testimony [05715], as it was counted [06485], according to the commandment [06310] of Moses [04872], for the service [05656] of the Levites [03881], by the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385], son [01121] to Aaron [0175] the priest [03548].
21 This [0428] is the sum [06485] of the tabernacle [04908], even of the tabernacle [04908] of testimony [05715], as it was counted [06485], according to the commandment [06310] of Moses [04872], for the service [05656] of the Levites [03881], by the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385], son [01121] to Aaron [0175] the priest [03548].