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Service as Spiritual Warfare
Multiple commentators, including Albert Barnes and John Gill, highlight that the Hebrew phrase for "perform the service" literally translates to "war the warfare." This military language reframes the Levites' work, suggesting that serving God is not a passive duty but an active, disciplined, and focused spiritual battle.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 4:23
18th Century
Theologian
enter in to perform the service - literally, as in the margin, to war the warfare, or, as the same phrase in part is rendered, ([Re…
Charles Spurgeon
On Numbers 4:21–24
19th Century
Preacher
They were to bear the external coverings of the holy place. The most holy place was in the custody of the Kohathites; but the Gershonites were to c…
John Gill
On Numbers 4:23
17th Century
Pastor
From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old ,
you shall number them
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 4:21–33
17th Century
Minister
We have here the charge of the other two families of the Levites, which, though not so honorable as the first, yet was necessary and to be done reg…