Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 31:54
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds,…. Which they so freely and generously offered:
and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation; and laid it up in some chamber there:
for a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord: in remembrance of the signal victory these men obtained, and of the singular care of divine Providence in protecting them, that not one was lost in the expedition; and of their sense of gratitude and thankfulness for the favours granted them, and to put the children of Israel in mind for their imitation, when favoured with mercies from the Lord.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
54. A memorial The ornaments may have been melted and wrought up into one piece of a monumental form.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
REFLECTIONS
PAUSE, my soul, over the perusal of this whole Chapter, and duly contemplate in the case of Balak and Balaam’s confederacy against Israel, and the event which here so soon after followed, in the destruction of Midian, the truth of that Scripture, The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. And again: Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
In the contemplation of the holy war of Israel, behold, my soul, the figure and similitude of that war in which thon art engaged. LORD, help me to go forth to every conflict in thy strength, making mention of thy righteousness, even thine only. Let not mine eye spare any of those lusts, in my corrupt members, which war against my soul; but do thou blessed JESUS, as the great captain of my salvation, go before, and by the precious influences of thine HOLY SPIRIT, drive them out before me, until they are utterly consumed. And grant, gracious GOD, that when returning from the slaughter, I may have so fully learnt the song of salvation to GOD and the LAMB, that the blood of JESUS may be my oblation for the atonement of the sin of my soul. Of my soul may it be said, as it is and shall ever be of all the redeemed in the holy army of the LORD, They overcame by the blood of the LAMB, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
tabernacle = tent. Hebrew. ‘ohel. See App-40.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
a memorial: Num 16:40, Exo 30:16, Jos 4:7, Psa 18:49, Psa 103:1, Psa 103:2, Psa 115:1, Psa 145:7, Zec 6:14, Luk 22:19, Act 10:4
Reciprocal: Exo 28:12 – for a memorial Ezr 7:5 – Eleazar Psa 68:12 – Kings Mar 14:9 – a memorial
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a {s} memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
(s) that the Lord might remember the children of Israel.