Treasury of Scripture
The word hakraiv, here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's
Numbers 1:49-53 Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel...
Numbers 2:17,33 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camp: as they encamp...
Numbers 8:6-15,22-26 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them...
Numbers 16:9-11 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel...
Numbers 18:2-6 And your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you...
Exodus 32:26-29 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come to me...
Deuteronomy 33:8,9 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you did prove at Massah...
Malachi 2:4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, said the LORD of hosts.
