Passage Research
Numbers 18 — Sermon Preparation
The duties and responsibilities of priests and Levites are defined, along with their provisions: tithes from the people go to the Levites, who in turn give a tithe to the priests. Below is a research summary for Numbers 18, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 32
- verses
- 521 / 136
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 18 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קֹדֶשׁ | qôdesh | H6944 | 12 | sacred, sanctity |
| תְּרוּמָה | tᵉrûwmâh | H8641 | 9 | present, up |
| אֹהֶל | ʼôhel | H168 | 9 | tent |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 12 | give, put |
| מַעֲשֵׂר | maʻăsêr | H4643 | 6 | tenth, tithe |
| עֲבֹדָה | ʻăbôdâh | H5656 | 7 | work |
| פָּדָה | pâdâh | H6299 | 6 | sever, ransom |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 18, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. #(31), the way to have comfort in all our worldly possessions, so as to bear no sin by reason of them. 1. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Numbers 18:20–32 (Public Domain)
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