Numbers 4:16 - Exposition

To the office of Eleazar,… oversight. Septuagint, ἐπίσκοπος ελεάζαρ …: ἡ ἑπισκοπὴ . On him was laid the oversight of and the responsibility for all the material appliances of Divine worship, and in especial it devolved upon him to see to the oil, the incense, and the chrism, and the materials for the daily meat offering. No doubt it is intended, although not precisely expressed, that the Kohathites were specially under his orders.