Verse Numbers 1:3. From twenty years old and upward] In this census no women were reckoned, nor children, nor strangers, nor the Levites, nor old men, which, collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the Levites alone amounted to 22,300. True-born Israelites only are reckoned; such as were able to carry arms, and were expert for war.
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...
THOU AND AARON. In second numbering it is Moses and Eleazar, Numbers 26:1....
Moses is directed to number the fighting men of Israel with the help of twelve princes....
ALL THAT ARE ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR— Hence it appears, that the aged and infirm, such as were _unable_ to go to war, were not numbered: and, accordingly, Josephus tells us, that after fifty years the...
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...
_FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, ALL THAT ARE ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR IN ISRAEL: THOU AND AARON SHALL NUMBER THEM BY THEIR ARMIES._ From twenty years old and upward. The enumeration was confined to...
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...
FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. — The result of the previous numbering (Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26), which was made about six months earlier, and which was probably obtained by counting the number o...
מִ בֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָ מַ֔עְלָה כָּל
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...
Arms, ( fortium). "Strong or brave." The psalmist (civ. 37,) says, there was not one feeble. (Menochius) --- Troops. Hebrew, "army." Septuagint, "force." Their officers shall be at their head, and sha...
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,...
FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARDS,.... All that had entered into their twentieth year, or, as it should rather seem, who were full twenty years of age, and all that were above it without any limitatio...
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. Ver. 3. _All that are able._] The people perceiving how many hundre...
_That are able to go forth to war_ It would seem from this that none of the aged and infirm were numbered, as being unable to go to war. Among several other nations as well as the Jews, particularly t...
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...
from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. Thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies, muster them in such divisions, because they were to be organized as...
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...
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 1:3 twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 go H3318 (H8802) war H6635 Israel H3478 Aaron H175 number...
‘Take you (ye) the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their heads, from twenty yea...
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...
_Take ye the sum of all the congregation._ REASONS FOR NUMBERING THE PEOPLE Not because God would understand whether they were sufficient for number, or able for strength, to encounter their enemies...
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
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:3 ALL... ABLE TO GO TO WAR shows that the invasion of Canaan is about to happen. ⇐...
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...
2 Chronicles 17:13; 2 Chronicles 26:11; 2 Samuel 24:9; Deuteronomy 24:5;...
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...