“Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”
The princes went first, and gave first, those elevated in power must lead in goodness, not follow. Wealth and authority are worth nothing unless they serve God and others. Necessary duties come before free-will gifts; order matters.
AI summary
Commenting on Numbers 7:1-9
Take it of them,.... The present of the wagons and oxen, by which it appears that this freewill offering of the princes was according to his mind and will, and what they were influenced and guided to by his Spirit, and was well pleasing in his sight, and acceptable to him: that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation...
Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. (b) That is, to carry things.