Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 1:20
By their generations That is, the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular persons.
By their generations That is, the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular persons.
The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. 2Ki 1:9, 2 Kings 1:11,
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...
REUBEN. Lost his dignity in Genesis 49:3; Genesis 49:4. not many in number here. ELDEST SON. See App-45....
The numbers ascertained by the census. There can be no doubt that the numbers given in chs. 1 3 and 26 are purely artificial. Gray (_Numbers_, pp. 10 15) shews that (1) they are impossible, (2) when...
B. THE COUNTING, TRIBE BY TRIBE vv. 17-43 TEXT Numbers 1:17. And Moses and Aaron took these men Which are expressed by their names: 18. And they assembled all the congregation together on the first da...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, ISRAEL'S ELDEST SON, BY THEIR GENERATIONS, AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE NAMES, BY THEIR POLLS, EVERY MALE FROM TWENT...
1:20 generations, (a-10) As Genesis 2:4 , throughout this chapter....
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...
BY THEIR GENERATIONS. — The _toledoth,_ or generations, included the whole of the descendants of the head of the tribe (Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9)....
וַ יִּהְי֤וּ בְנֵֽי ־רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל...
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...
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...
There is certainly somewhat very striking in those scriptures which mention the number of the children of Israel. It is plain, that it is of the highest importance in the divine esteem, otherwise the...
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...
20._And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son _If any disputatious person should contend that one family could not increase in 250 years to so great an amount, and thus should reject as nebulous...
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 THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, ISRAEL'S ELDEST SON,.... Were numbered first, and next to them those of Simeon and Gad, for they were numbered according to the order in which they were to be encamped; for...
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...
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty...
THE MUSTER OF THE PEOPLE...
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...
BY THEIR GENERATIONS, Heb. to wit, _their generations_, i.e. the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular...
& 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 1:20 children H1121 Reuben H7205 Israels H3478 son H1060 genealogies H8435 families H4940 fathers H1 house...
THE NUMBERING OR ASSESSMENT OF THE TRIBES (EXCLUDING LEVI). (For more detail on these ‘numbers' see the Book Comments in e-Sword). The tribes were now assessed tribe by tribe in order to give a total...
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...
_Those that were numbered._ THE FIRST ARMY OF ISRAEL, AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH MILITANT I. The necessity of this army. The Church must be militant. 1. Internal foes have to be conquered. Carna...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:20 The number of men between the ages of 20 and 60 comes to 603,550. This counts EVERY MAN ABLE TO GO TO WAR IN ISRAEL (see vv. Numbers 1:45)
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 CENSUS TAKEN (Numbers 1:17-4). NUMBERS 1:17 THESE MEN. Designated by direct command of God; yet probably the same, or some of the same, selected by Moses for obvious personal and soci...
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 5:1; Genesis 29:32; Genesis 46:9; Genesis 49:3; Genesis 4
By their generations — That is, the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular persons....
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...