Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 31:29
Take [it] of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, [for] a heave offering of the LORD.
An heave-offering – Render simply an offering, and compare Num 18:24. The verb from which the word here rendered heave-offering is derived, is rightly translated levy in Num 31:28.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
And take it of their half,…. Of the half part of the prey divided to the soldiers:
and give it unto Eleazar the priest for an heave offering of the Lord; by way of thanksgiving for the success and victory, God had given them, by means of which so much booty had fallen into their hands.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
29. A heave offering Num 15:19, note. This was for the support of the priests, as were the tithes. Num 5:9, note. They might put the cattle into their own flocks as did the Levites, (Num 35:3,) and slay them as they required them. The maidens were employed as servants. The asses they sold.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
give it. An extra portion in addition to Deu 18:1, Deu 18:2 and Num 18:19. So Abram, Gen 14:20.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
an heave: Num 18:26, Exo 29:27, Deu 12:12, Deu 12:19
Reciprocal: Exo 29:28 – is an heave Lev 7:14 – an heave Num 18:19 – the heave Num 31:41 – Eleazar 2Ch 15:11 – offered
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 31:29-30. A heave-offering In thankfulness to God for their preservation and good success. One of fifty Whereas the former part was one of five hundred; the reason of the difference Isaiah , 1 st, Because this was taken out of the peoples portion, whose hazards being less than the others, their gains also, in all reason, were to be less. 2d, Because this was to be distributed into more hands, the Levites being now more numerous, whereas the priests were but few.