Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Numbers 1:4
And with you, as assistants for this special purpose, there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers, holding at least this rank among the people.
And with you, as assistants for this special purpose, there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers, holding at least this rank among the people.
A month had passed away since the setting up of the tabernacle Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:17 : and the Sinaitic legislation was now complete (compare Leviticus 27:34). A census
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY 1. The People Numbered CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 1:1)_ 2. The appointed helpers for the work (Numbers 1:5) 3. The...
NUMBERS 1:1 (from P, which is used uninterruptedly as far as Numbers 10:28). THE NUMBERING OF THE SECULAR TRIBES. The date of this census is about eleven months after the arrival at Mt. Sinai (Exodus...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ See App-14. EVERY TRIBE. Hence twelve, and, with Moses and Aaron, fourteen. So the twelve apostles, with Paul and Barnabas. fourteen....
Moses is directed to number the fighting men of Israel with the help of twelve princes....
B. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CENSUS vv. 2-4 TEXT Numbers 1:2. Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number...
_AND WITH YOU THERE SHALL BE A MAN OF EVERY TRIBE; EVERY ONE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHERS._ With you there shall be a man ... - (see the note at Numbers 1:2.) The social condition of the Israelit...
THE FIRST NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE At Sinai Moses receives the command to take the number of the males over twenty years of age in the eleven secular tribes, the tribe of Levi being enumerated separate...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF NUMBERS The first 5 books in the Bible are called the ‘5 Books of Moses’. The Book of Numbers is the 4th...
OF EVERY TRIBE. — Or, _for every tribe._ EVERY ONE HEAD... — The words may be rendered _every one a head_... There were many heads of fathers’ houses in each tribe; but it appears from Numbers 1:16 (N...
וְ אִתְּכֶ֣ם יִהְי֔וּ אִ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ לַ †...
THE CENSUS AND THE CAMP 1. THE MUSTERING Numbers 1:1 FROM the place of high spiritual knowledge, where through the revelation of God in covenant and law Israel has been constituted His nation and Hi...
NUMBERED FOR WAR; SET APART FOR WORSHIP Numbers 1:1 This book records two numberings of the host; the first, at Sinai; and the second, thirty-eight years after, on the threshold of Canaan. It is als...
The Book of Numbers deals with the wilderness. It is the story of a long discipline resulting from disobedience. History moves forward, for God ever protects His own purposes from the failure of His c...
And with you there shall be a (c) man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. (c) That is, the chiefest man of every tribe....
Had not this method of numbering by families a particular design, more clearly thereby to ascertain the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ? Hebrews 7:14 Let the Reader remark with me, what dignity God...
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. The first thing to be noticed is, that God numbers His people exactly, and arranges them, once thus recognised, around His tabernacle: sweet thought,...
AND WITH YOU THERE SHALL BE A MAN OF EVERY TRIBE,.... Excepting Levi, of which Moses and Aaron were, to assist in taking the account, and to see that it was an exact and perfect one: EVERYONE HEAD OF...
_And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers._ Ver. 4. _A man of every tribe._] These were men of renown. Num 1:16 To "do worthily in Ephrata," is the...
1 God commaundeth Moses to number the people. 5 The Princes of the Tribes. 17 The number of euery Tribe. 47 The Leuites are exempted for the Seruice of the Lord. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses in...
THE FIRST CENSUS OF ISRAEL (vs.1-46) After Israel's leaving Egypt, over a year passed before we read of this census being taken. In David's time, when he determined to number the people (2 Samuel 24:...
1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their famili...
To inspect the work, that it might be faithfully and impartially done....
& Numbers 2:1-34. We now enter upon the study of the fourth grand division of the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses; and we shall find the leading characteristic of this book quite as strongly marked...
Numbers 1:4 man H376 every H376 tribe H4294 one H376 head H7218 fathers H1 house H1004...
‘And with you (ye) there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of his fathers' house.' Furthermore twelve men were to be called on to assist, one from each of the twelve tribes, each to be th...
CONTENTS: Moses commanded to take census. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The Lord knows all those that are His (2 Timothy 2:19) by name (Php_4:3) and even the hairs of their heads are nu...
Numbers 1:2. _Take ye the sum._ The Israelites had been numbered, for the purpose of subscribing half a shekel towards the erection of the tabernacle. Now they are numbered for war; and were afterward...
_A man of every tribe: every one head of the house of his fathers._ BANK AND SERVICE I. Co-operation in divine service. 1. The toil of Moses and Aaron would be lessened. 2. The accomplishment of t...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:1 Israel Prepares to Enter the Land. Numbers 1:1 tells how Israel traveled from Mount Sinai to the Jordan Valley, the eastern border of the Promised Lan
THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE (_Numbers 1:1_) “The object of the encampment at Sinai,” says Perowne, “has been accomplished. The Covenant has been made, the Law given, the Sanctuary set up, the Priests...
THE CENSUS OF SINAI (Numbers 1:1). EXPOSITION THE CENSUS DIVINELY COMMANDED (Numbers 1:1)....
This time lets turn to the book of Numbers, so called because twice in the book the children of Israel were numbered. Once at the beginning of their forty years of wandering in the wilderness and then...
1 Chronicles 27:1; Exodus 18:25; Joshua 22:14; Numbers 1:16;...
How accurate is this census of the tribes of Israel? PROBLEM: According to the census taken in Chapter s 1–4 of Numbers, the newly formed nation of Israel must have numbered about 2 million people. Ac...