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Numbers 3:32 KJV
Numbers · chapter 3 · verse 32
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.Numbers 3:32 · King James Version
Numbers 3:32 in context
30And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
31And 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.
32And 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.
33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
34And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- oversightpᵉquddâhvisitationH6486 →
- EleazarʼElʻâzârElazar, the name of seven IsraelitesH499 →
- LevitesLêvîyîya Levite or descendant of LeviH3881 →
- priestkôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- chargemishmerethwatchH4931 →
- AaronʼAhărôwnAharon, the brother of MosesH175 →
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The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num 3:15.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-39