They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
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They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
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Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
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And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He hath spoken unto them.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 18:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 15:1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
- Psalms 16:5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
- Psalms 73:24-26 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalms 84:11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Psalms 119:57 Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
- Isaiah 61:6 But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.
- Lamentations 3:24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
- 1 Peter 2:5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- Revelation 1:5-6 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood— and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. The Lord’s part and right, as was now…
i.e. The Lord’s part and right, as was now said.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren,....…
Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren,.... Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, because provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because
the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them; see Gill on Num 18:20, which as it may be understood in a spiritual sense of their interest in God, as their covenant God, and of their enjoyment of him, and communion with him; so chiefly in a temporal sense of all those things in the sacrifices which the Lord claimed to himself, and these he gave unto them; so the same Targum interprets this of the twenty four gifts of the priesthood, enumerated Num 18:1.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. The Lord is their inheritance] He is…
Verse 2. The Lord is their inheritance] He is the portion of their souls; and as to their bodies, they shall live by the offerings of the Lord made by fire, i. e., the meat-offering, the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and whatever was the Lord's right, in these or other offerings, he gave to the priests.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. As in Deu_10:9 : read with Heb. he,…
2. As in Deu_10:9 : read with Heb. he, his, him for they, their, them and see introd. to this law.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 2, 3. As he hath said unto them…
Vers. 2, 3. As he hath said unto them (cf. Num_18:20) The shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw; i.e. the front leg, the two jaw-bones, and the rough stomach of ruminants, in which the digestion is completed. These were regarded as the choice parts of the animal, and were to be given to the priests in addition to the wave breast and heave leg of the peace offerings (Lev_7:32, etc.; Num_18:11) which belonged to the firings of Jehovah, mentioned in ver. 1. To these the priest had a rightful claim; they were his due (fpvmi, mishpat, right). "This right was probably accorded to the priests as a compensation for the falling off which would take place in their incomes in consequence of the repeal of the law that every animal was to be slaughtered at the sanctuary as a sacrifice. (Le 17; vide"(Keil) Deu_12:15. sqq.) According to Josephus ("Antiq," 4:4, 4), Philo ("De Praemiis. Sacerdot.," p. 832, Opp., tom. 2. p. 235, edit. Maugey), the Talmud, etc., this injunction relates to the slaying of animals at home for private use, and not such as were killed for sacrifice. But the use here of the sacrificial phraseology, who offer a sacrifice (jbZh yjebzO, who slay victims for sacrifice a phrase nowhere found except in connection with sacrificial rites) is adverse to this; and besides, how could such an enactment be carried out? How could people, residing at a distance, convey to the priests the portions due to them every time they slaughtered an animal for domestic use? At the same time, the sacrifices here referred to do not seem to be included in the offerings by fire above mentioned; and these gifts to the priest seem to have been something over and above his ordinary dues. There is probability, therefore, in the suggestion that "the reference is to the slaughtering of oxen, sheep, or goats, which were not intended for shelamim in the more limited sense, i.e. for one of the three species of peace offerings, (Lev_7:15, Lev_7:16) but for festal meals in the broader sense, which were held in connection with the sacrificial meals prepared from the shelamim" (Keil).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 18:2 The Lord himself is their special possession: The…
18:2 The Lord himself is their special possession: The allotment of the Levites was spiritual, not territorial or material. They possessed the Lord by giving their whole lives to his service. This idea is a remarkable inverse of the idea that Israel was the Lord’s possession (see 7:6).
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