These treasures typified the plenty there is in our heavenly Father's house, enough and to spare. In Christ, the true temple, are hid treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and unsearchable riches. Abraham gave Melchisedec the tenth of the spoils Heb. In Moses's time the officers of the army, when they returned victorious, brought of their spoils an oblation to the Lord, Num. Note, The more God bestows upon us the more he expects from us in works of piety and charity.
Great successes call for proportionable returns.
Men of war must honour God with their spoils. Verses 29-32 All the offices of the house of God being well provided with Levites, we have here an account of those that were employed as officers and judges in the outward business, which must not be neglected, no, not for the temple itself. The magistracy is an ordinance of God for the good of the church as truly as the ministry is. And here we are told, 1. That the Levites were employed in the administration of justice in concurrence with the princes and elders of the several tribes, who could not be supposed to understand the law so well as the Levites, who made it their business to study it.