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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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AS. according as.
WILDERNESS OF SINAI (Numbers 1:1), to distinguish it from the second,
which was in the plains of Moab....
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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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_AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, SO HE NUMBERED THEM IN THE WILDERNESS OF
SINAI._
As the Lord commanded ... The numbering of the people was not an act
sinful in itself, as Moses did it by divine appoint...
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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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כַּ אֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת
־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַֽ
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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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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...
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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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It is very endearing to behold the Lord Jesus giving in the account of
his people. John 17:6....
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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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AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES,.... In this Moses and David differed in
numbering the people of Israel; the one did it by an express command
from God, and in obedience to it; the other without one, and a...
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of
Sinai.
Ver. 19. _So he numbered them._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 30:12 _"_ At
every general muster they paid poll money. Exo 30:16 Su...
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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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As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of
Sinai....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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‘As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered (assessed) them in the
wilderness of Sinai.'
Thus did Moses fulfil Yahweh's command and mobilise the fighting men
of Yahweh ready for moving forward. The num...
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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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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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2 Samuel 24:1; Numbers 1:2; Numbers 26:1; Numbers 26:2...
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He numbered them — For ought that appears in one day....
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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...