Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Numbers 1:47
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them, they were not included in this census.
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them, they were not included in this census.
When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for se...
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...
LEVITES not numbered here with the nation, but separately in Numbers 3:14....
The Levites were not to be numbered as fighting men, but were assigned other duties on the march. These duties are stated more fully in chs. 3, 4....
BUT THE LEVITES—WERE NOT NUMBERED— We find in chap. Numbers 3:16, &c. that the Levites were to keep a distinct register of their own; though, as being separated from the rest of their brethren for the...
III. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 1:47-54) TEXT Numbers 1:47. But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48. For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, sa...
_BUT THE LEVITES AFTER THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHERS WERE NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM._ But the Levites ... were not numbered. They were obliged to keep a register of their own. They were consecrated to the...
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...
וְ הַ לְוִיִּ֖ם לְ מַטֵּ֣ה אֲבֹתָ֑ם לֹ֥א
2. THE TRIBE OF LEVI Numbers 1:47 The tribe of Levi is not numbered with the rest. No warlike service, no half-shekel for the sanctuary, is to be exacted from the Levite. His contribution to the gene...
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...
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among (g) them. (g) Which were warriors, but were appointed to the use of the Tabernacle....
_Levites. As they attended the tabernacle, like God's peculiar servants, and were not obliged to go forth to battle, it was not necessary to number them with the rest. (Calmet) --- They might, however...
The separation of the Levites had certainly some very important signification. Perhaps to manifest the distinguishing tokens of grace. And it is probable, that it meant to show, that as in profession...
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...
47._But the Levites, after the tribe of their fathers _We shall indeed hereafter see that they also were numbered, but Moses means that they were not included in the general _census _of the people, be...
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,...
BUT THE LEVITES,.... The tribe of Levi were excepted from this muster, they being employed in a kind of warfare, and therefore not to be engaged in another: AFTER THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHERS, WERE NOT...
_But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them._ Ver. 47. _Were not numbered._] Because, by special privilege exempted from secular and military employments, that they...
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:...
47-54 Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular services shall be recompensed by singular honours. It was to the...
No text from Poole on this verse....
& 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 1:47 Levites H3881 numbered H6485 (H8719) among H8432 fathers H1 tribe H4294 Numbers 1:3,
THE LEVITES' RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DWELLINGPLACE (NUMBERS 1:47). Numbers 1:47 ‘But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.' But the Levites were not numbered amon...
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...
_The Levites. .. were not numbered._ THE LEVITES AND THEIR SERVICE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY The Levites were exempted from military service, and set apart for the service of the tab...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:47__ The LEVITES, the priestly tribe, were not included in the census because they were responsible for the TABERNACLE, the most vital part of the whole camp. They dismantled...
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...
EXPOSITION THE LEVITES (Numbers 1:47-4). NUMBERS 1:47 NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM. They _were _numbered (Numbers 3:39)
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 21:6; 1 Chronicles 6:1; Numbers 1:3; Numbers 1:50;...
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...