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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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C. TOTAL OF THE MARTIAL CENSUS vv. 44-46
TEXT
Numbers 1:44. These are those that were numbered, which Moses and
Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one
was for the house...
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_SO WERE ALL THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BY
THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, ALL THAT
WERE ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR IN ISRAEL;_
Six hundred thousan...
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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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וַ יִּֽהְי֛וּ כָּל ־פְּקוּדֵ֥י בְנֵֽי
־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל...
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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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Pause again, my brother, and reflect, what a standing miracle of mercy
must it have been in the Lord, to have fed this great multitude in the
wilderness, day by day for forty years together. And when...
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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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SO WERE ALL THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Of
all the tribes, excepting Levi, that is, all the sums of the number of
the children of Israel; all put together made the sum tota...
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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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So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the
house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war in Israel:...
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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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44-46 We have here the sum total. How much was required to maintain
all these in the wilderness! They were all provided for by God every
day. When we observe the faithfulness of God, however unlikely...
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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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‘So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their
fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go forth to war in Israel, even all those who were numbered w...
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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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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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Numbers 2:32; Numbers 1:3; Numbers 1:47; Numbers 14:29...
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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...