Numbers 2:5-32

I only beg to detain the Reader, with general observations on those verses, because the leading doctrine of each belongs equally to all. The order observed in those appointments, manifests the Lord to be a God of order. And as it is he which hath fixed the bounds of our habitation, what a precious thought it is, in particular hours, when the mind is full of fear, lest being found out of the way, that, as Job saith, he knoweth the way that I take. Job 23:10. Let the Reader, who contemplates in this view of Israel, the privilege of the Lord's people, in having their standards near the tabernacle, contemplate at the same time, the greater privilege of those around whom the Lord himself encampeth, and defendeth them. Psalms 34:7.