The Pentateuch (Volume 3); By C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch Translated From the German by James Martin - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... that his heart might not be lifted up above his brethren, that he might not become proud (chap. viii. 14), and might not turn aside from the commandments to the right hand or to the left, that he and his descendants might live long upon the throne. Rights of the Priests, the Levites, and the Prophets.--Chap. xviii. In addition to the judicial order and the future ting, it was necessary that the position of the priests and Levites, whose duties and rights had been regulated by previous laws, should at least be mentioned briefly and finally established (vers. 1-8), and also that the prophetic order should be fully accredited by the side of the other state authorities, and its operations regulated by a definite law (vers. 9-22). Vers. 1-8. The Rights Of The Priests And Levites.-- With reference to these, Moses repeats verbatim from Num. xviii. 20, 23, 24, the essential part of the rule laid down in Num. xviii.: "The priests the Levites, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel." "All the tribe of Levi" includes the priests and Levites. They were to eat the " firings of Jehovah and His inheritance," as described in detail in Num. xviii. The inheritance of Jehovah consisted of the holy gifts as well as the sacrifices, prohibition to the historical circumstances of the time of Solomon, or even a later age, is manifest in the desperate subterfuge to which Riehm has recourse, when he connects this passage with the threat in chap. xxviii. 68, that if all the punishments suspended over them should be ineffectual, God would carry them back in ships to Egypt, and that they should there be sold to their enemies as men-servants and maid-servants, and then discovers a proof in this, that the Egyptian king Psammetichus, who sought out foreign sold...

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