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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,
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם לְ מַטֵּ֣ה יְהוּדָ֑ה
אַרְבָּעָ֧ה וְ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THEM, [EVEN] OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, [WERE]
THREESCORE AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED. 74,600 men. Numbers
1:20....
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_Threescore and fourteen thousand_ Far more than any other tribe, in
accomplishing Jacob's prophecy, Genesis 49....
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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...
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those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred....
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THE MUSTER OF THE PEOPLE...
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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:...
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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...
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Far more than any other tribe, in accomplishing of Jacob's prophecy,
GE 49....
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& 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...
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Numbers 1:27 numbered H6485 (H8803) tribe H4294 Judah H3063
seventy-four H7657 H702 thousand H505 six H8337 hundred...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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)
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:26 JUDAH is the largest tribe. Its
position in the camp (Numbers 2:3) and its leadership on the march ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Threescore and fourteen thousand — Far more than any other tribe, in
accomplishing Jacob's prophecy, Genesis 49:8....
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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...