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Numbers 7:84 KJV
Numbers · chapter 7 · verse 84
This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:Numbers 7:84 · King James Version
Numbers 7:84 in context
82One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
83And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
85Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- dedicationchănukkâhinitiationH2598 →
- anointedmâshachto rub with oilH4886 →
- chargersqᵉʻârâha bowlH7086 →
- princesnâsîyʼproperly, an exalted oneH5387 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- twelveʻâsârtenH6240 →
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We have here an account of the great solemnity of dedicating the altars, both that of burnt-offerings and that of incense; they had been sanctified before, when they were anointed (Lev 8:10, Lev 8:11), but now they were handselled, as it were, by the princes, with their free-will offerings.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-89