Teks -- Numbers 16:40 (NET)

16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the Lord had spoken by the authority of Moses.

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Wesley: Num 16:40 - To him

To Eleazer. These words belong to Num 16:38, the meaning is, that Eleazer did as God bade him.

JFB: Num 16:37-40 - Speak unto Eleazar

He was selected lest the high priest might contract defilement from going among the dead carcasses.

JFB: Num 16:39-40 - the brazen censers . . . made broad plates to be a memorial

The altar of burnt offerings, being made of wood and covered with brass, this additional covering of broad plates not only rendered it doubly secure against the fire, but served as a warning beacon to deter all from future invasions of the priesthood.

Calvin: Num 16:40 - To be a memorial unto the children of Israel

40.To be a memorial unto the children of Israel This passage again confirms what I have just said, that God’s judgments, which ought to remain in full remembrance in every age, straightway escape, and are blotted out front men’s minds, unless they are provided with certain aids to meditate upon them. This, however, does not happen so much from ignorance as neglect. Wherefore we ought to be the more attentive to the aids to memory, which may retain us in the path of duty.

TSK: Num 16:40 - that no // come near

that no : Num 3:10, Num 3:38, Num 18:4-7; Lev 22:10; 2Ch 26:18-20; Jud 1:11

come near : 1Ki 13:1-3; 2Ch 26:16-21

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Poole: Num 16:40 - As Korah, and as his company // To him

As Korah, and as his company i.e. that he do not imitate them in their sin, and therefore bring upon himself the same plague.

To him i.e. to Eleazar. These words belong to Num 16:38 ; the meaning is, that Eleazar did as God bade him.

Haydock: Num 16:40 - Stranger

Stranger, though he be even of royal dignity. Thus Osias was afflicted with a perpetual leprosy, which rendered him incapable of exercising even the office of king, because he had attempted to offer incense, 2 Kings xv. 5., and 2 Paralipomenon xxvi. 17. (Haydock)

Gill: Num 16:40 - To be a memorial unto the children of Israel // that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord // that he be not as Korah and as his company // as the Lord said unto him by the hand of Moses

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel,.... The whole body of them; this explains what is meant by sign, Num 16:38; that it was to put or keep in mind what follows:

that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord; not only any Gentile but any Israelite, and not any Israelite only, but any Levite; none but those of the family of Aaron might offer incense before the Lord:

that he be not as Korah and as his company; this makes it clear that Korah perished at this time, though it is nowhere expressed; and it seems pretty plain from hence that he perished by fire, as his company, the two hundred fifty men with censers, did:

as the Lord said unto him by the hand of Moses; either to Korah, who is the immediate antecedent, and who perished as the Lord had told him by Moses he should; so some understand it, mentioned by Aben Ezra and Jarchi; or else to Aaron, as they interpret it; and then the sense is, that none but those of Aaron's seed should offer incense, as the Lord had declared to him by Moses; see Num 3:10; or it may be rather to Eleazar, as Abendana, who did as the Lord spake to him by Moses, took up the censers of the men that were burnt, and got them beaten into broad plates, and covered the altar of burnt offering with them.