Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
The levites
Bible References
The levites
Numbers 4:5
When the camp is to be moved, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it
Numbers 10:11
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
The stranger
Numbers 3:10
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons that they shall guard their priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
Numbers 16:40
to be a memorial unto the sons of Israel, that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he not be as Korah and as his company, as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 18:22
Neither must the sons of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the testimony lest they bear sin and die because of it.
Leviticus 22:10
No stranger shall eat of the holy thing; a guest of the priest or a hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing.
1 Samuel 6:19
Then God smote those of Bethshemesh because they had looked at the ark of the LORD; he smote fifty thousand of the people and seventy principal men. And the people lamented because the LORD had smitten the people with such a great slaughter.
2 Samuel 6:7
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his effrontery, and there he died by the ark of God.