Numbers 7

Numbers 7:3

COvered] Made after the fashion of horse-litters, or coaches with arched covers,

Numbers 7:5

The service] To help in part to supply the want of carriage of the things belonging to the Tabernacle; for otherwise six such waggons could not suffice for all According to his] according to those parts which were left to the conduct and looking to of the two families of the Gershonites and the Merarites, Num. 4 24. 31.

Numbers 7:7

Two] Moses divided these waggons according to the proportion of the greater weight and bigneste of those things, which were committed to the Merarites charge, Numbers ch: 4. v. 3. And the lesser weight which the Gershonites had, Numbers chap. 4 v. 4.

Numbers 7:9

Upon their] Without the help of any waggon, Numbers 4:6; Numbers 4:8; Numbers 4:10; Numbers 4:12; Numbers 4:14. 2 Samuel 6. 6. 13.

Numbers 7:10

For dedicating] This was a holy Ceremony which was done with prayers, Sacrifices, Musicke, Feasts, and Rejoycings, when any Fabricke, being finished, was to begin to be employed to its uses, either holy, or ordinary, to dedicate it first to God, and draw his blessing upon it. See Deuteronomy, chapter 20. verse 5. 1 Kings chapt. 8. verse 63. Ezr. chapter 6. verse 16. Neh. ch. 12. v. 27. Psal. 30. v. 1.

Numbers 7:89

When Moses] After Aaron the Tabernacle and the Altar were consecrated, when Moses enquired of the Lord within the Tabernacle, without the Curtaine, God spake unto him with a distinct voyce, which did not proceed from, nor was not framed by the Organs of any body, assumed for a time, nor in diverse places, as he did before, but alwayes from above the Arke, by a voice divinely framed, according to his promise made in the five and twentieth chapter of Exodus, and the two and twentieth verse. See upon Exodus. chap. 40. vers. 34, 35 Hee spake]Moses to GOD: Others have it, and so hee spake unto him; namely, GOD to Moses.