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a kingdom: Deuteronomy 33:2-4, Isaiah 61:6, Romans 12:1, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:6
and an: Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 11:45, Leviticus 19:2, Leviticus 20:24, Leviticus 20:26, Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:23, Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 26:19, Deuteronomy 28:9, Isaiah 62:12, 1 Corinthians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:27, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 17:7 - and to Genesis 34:7 - wrought Exodus 4:22 - Israel Exodus 6:7 - will take Exodus 15:16 - which thou Exodus 22:31 - holy Exodus 28:2 - glory Exodus 33:16 - separated Leviticus 22:32 - hallow you Leviticus 26:12 - will be Leviticus 26:45 - for their Numbers 16:3 - all the Numbers 23:9 - dwell alone Deuteronomy 4:20 - a people Deuteronomy 14:2 - General Deuteronomy 26:18 - And the Deuteronomy 29:12 - thou shouldest Deuteronomy 32:9 - the Lord's Deuteronomy 33:3 - he loved Judges 20:7 - ye are all 1 Samuel 10:1 - his inheritance 1 Samuel 12:12 - when the Lord 1 Samuel 12:22 - it hath 2 Samuel 7:23 - went 2 Samuel 20:19 - the inheritance 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered 2 Samuel 23:3 - God 1 Kings 3:8 - thy people 1 Kings 8:53 - separate 2 Kings 17:35 - With whom 1 Chronicles 16:13 - his chosen 1 Chronicles 17:22 - thy people 2 Chronicles 8:9 - But of the 2 Chronicles 13:10 - the Lord Ezra 9:2 - the holy seed Psalms 33:12 - Blessed Psalms 50:7 - O my Psalms 68:10 - Thy congregation Psalms 74:12 - God Psalms 114:2 - General Psalms 135:4 - his peculiar Psalms 148:14 - a people Isaiah 26:2 - righteous Isaiah 41:8 - thou Isaiah 43:1 - thou art mine Isaiah 43:4 - precious Isaiah 45:4 - Jacob Isaiah 51:4 - O my Isaiah 63:8 - Surely Isaiah 66:21 - General Jeremiah 2:3 - holiness Jeremiah 7:23 - Obey Jeremiah 13:11 - I caused Jeremiah 51:19 - the rod Ezekiel 20:12 - I am Ezekiel 23:4 - they were Hosea 2:1 - Ammi Amos 3:2 - only Amos 6:1 - named Zechariah 2:12 - inherit Malachi 2:11 - profaned Matthew 20:2 - he had Matthew 21:43 - a nation Titus 2:14 - peculiar Hebrews 8:10 - they shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,.... Instead of being in a state of servitude and bondage, as they had been in Egypt, they should be erected into a kingdom, become a body politic, a free state, a commonwealth governed by its own laws, and those laws of God's making; yea, they should be a kingdom to him, and he be more immediately the king of them, as he was not of others, the government of Israel being a Theocracy; and this kingdom should consist of men that were priests, who had access to God, served him, and offered sacrifice to him; or of men greatly esteemed and honoured, as priests were in those times. Jarchi interprets it, a kingdom of princes, as the word sometimes signifies: the subjects of this kingdom were princes, men of a princely spirit, and these princes, like those of the king of Babylon, who boasted they were altogether kings; and like the Roman senators, of whom the ambassador of Pyrrhus said, that he saw at Rome as many kings as he saw senators. And so here all the Targums render it, "kings and priests": to which reference seems to be had not only in 1 Peter 2:9 but in Revelation 1:6, they were kings when they got the victory, as in the times of Joshua, over the several kings of Canaan, and had their kingdoms divided among them; and before the priesthood was settled in the family of Aaron, every head of a family in Israel was a priest; and they were all priests at the passover, as Philo i observes: and so the spiritual Israel of God are kings and priests; they are kings, having the power and riches of kings; having got through Christ the victory over sin, Satan, and the world; and being possessed of the kingdom of grace, and heirs of the kingdom of glory; and priests, being allowed to draw nigh to God, to present themselves, souls and bodies, a holy and living sacrifice, to offer to him the sacrifices of prayer and praise through Christ, by whom they become acceptable to him: "and an holy nation"; being separated from all others, and devoted to the worship and service of God, having holy laws, and holy ordinances, and a holy service, and a holy place to perform it in, and holy persons to attend unto it, as they afterwards had. In allusion to this, the spiritual Israel, or people of God, are also called so, 1 Peter 2:9 being chosen unto holiness, redeemed from all iniquity, called with an holy calling, sanctified by the blood of Christ, and made holy by the Spirit of God, and under the influence of his grace live holy lives and conversations:
these are the words thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel: what he would have them do, and they were bound to do in a way of duty to him, and what he in a way of grace would do for them, and they should be unto him,
i De Vita Mosis, l. 3. p. 686.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A kingdom of priests - Israel collectively is a royal and priestly race: a dynasty of priests, each true member uniting in himself the attributes of a king and priest. Compare 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 1:6.
An holy nation - The holiness of Israel consisted in its special consecration to God: it was a sacred nation, sacred by adoption, by covenant, and by participation in all means of grace. Compare Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:9; 1Co 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:27.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 19:6. And a holy nation. — They should be a nation, one people; firmly united among themselves, living under their own laws; and powerful, because united, and acting under the direction and blessing of God. They should be a holy nation, saved from their sins, righteous in their conduct, holy in their hearts; every external rite being not only a significant ceremony, but also a means of conveying light and life, grace and peace, to every person who conscientiously used it. Thus they should be both a kingdom, having God for their governor; and a nation, a multitude of peoples connected together; not a scattered, disordered, and disorganized people, but a royal nation, using their own rites, living under their own laws, subject in religious matters only to God, and in things civil, to every ordinance of man for God's sake.
This was the spirit and design of this wonderful institution, which could not receive its perfection but under the Gospel, and has its full accomplishment in every member of the mystical body of Christ.