Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The actual lighting of the lamps (compare the marginal references) was to be done to set forth symbolically the special presence which God had now Numbers 7:89 actually established among His people.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 8:2:
Exodus 25:31-39
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