9<\/strong>. seemeth it but a small thing unto you<\/em> ] is it too small a thing for you.<\/strong> Korah’s company already possessed the great privilege of being separated from the other tribes for divine service; and with that they ought to be satisfied.<\/p>\n Seemeth is not in the original. Render it as: Is it too little for you, i. e. is it less than your dignity demands?<\/P> <\/p>\n Near to himself; <\/B>nearer than the other tribes, though not so near as the priests. <\/P> Unto them, <\/B>i.e. in their stead and for their good. So they were the servants both of God and of the church, which was a high dignity, though not sufficient for their ambitious minds. <\/P> <\/p>\n [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you<\/strong>,…. It should not; for it was a great thing which the Lord had done for them, and with which they should have been satisfied, and for it thankful:<\/p>\n that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel<\/strong>: this was a special favour, and ought to have been esteemed such, that God, who was the God of the whole people of Israel in common, should separate the tribe of Levi from all the rest of the tribes of Israel:<\/p>\n to bring you near to himself<\/strong>; next to the priests their brethren of the same tribe, to be joined to them, and assist them in their service, and officiate in the court of the tabernacle, where the divine Majesty dwelt:<\/p>\n to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord<\/strong>; to watch it, and guard it, and keep out persons until to enter into it; to take it down and set it up, as occasion required, and bear and carry the holy things in it, and take care of them:<\/p>\n and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them<\/strong>? which Jarchi interprets of their singing in the desk songs of praise before them; but Aben Ezra, better, of the service they did for them, when they brought their offerings and sacrifices, which they took of them, and carried to the priests to offer for them.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> Separated you <\/strong> The Levites had been appointed over the tabernacle (Num 1:50<\/span>) in the place of the firstborn sons. Num 3:11-13<\/span>, note. Moses now appeals to their sense of gratitude for this mark of God’s favour.<\/p>\n Num 16:9<\/span> [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?<\/p>\n Ver. 9. Seemeth it but a small thing.<\/strong> ] While these ambitious Levites would be looking up to the priests, Moses sends down their eyes to the people. The way not to repine at those above us, is to look at those below us.<\/p>\n Seemeth it . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis App-6. <\/p>\n tabernacle = Hebrew. mishkan, habitation. App-40. <\/p>\n Seemeth it but: Num 16:13, Gen 30:15, 1Sa 18:23, 2Sa 7:19, Isa 7:13, Eze 34:18, 1Co 4:3 <\/p>\n separated: Num 1:53, Num 3:41-45, Num 8:14-16, Num 18:2-6, Deu 10:8, 2Ch 35:3, Neh 12:44, Eze 44:10, Eze 44:11, Act 13:2 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 28:1 – take Num 3:6 – General Num 4:3 – to do Deu 18:5 – General 1Ki 16:31 – as if it had been a light thing 1Ch 6:48 – brethren Neh 13:29 – the covenant Mal 2:5 – covenant Joh 3:27 – A man Rom 1:1 – separated<\/p>\n [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? 9. seemeth it but a small thing unto … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 16:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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