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Numbers 18 — Sermon Preparation

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.

Matthew Henry 4 Calvin 2 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“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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