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When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers
26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward,
and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for
se...
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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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SPOKEN. See note on Numbers 1:1....
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_For the Lord spake_ AND JEHOVAH SPAKE. The rendering of the R.V.,
which is quite inadmissible, conceals the difficulty that the command
not to number the Levites follows the statement that they were...
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The Levites were not to be numbered as fighting men, but were assigned
other duties on the march. These duties are stated more fully in chs.
3, 4....
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III. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 1:47-54)
TEXT
Numbers 1:47. But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were
not numbered among them. 48. For the Lord had spoken unto Moses,
sa...
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_BUT THE LEVITES AFTER THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHERS WERE NOT NUMBERED
AMONG THEM._
But the Levites ... were not numbered. They were obliged to keep a
register of their own. They were consecrated to the...
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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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FOR THE LORD HAD SPOKEN... — Better, _And the Lord spake._..
(Numbers 3:1; Numbers 3:5; Numbers 3:14). It is true that the Levites
were not included in the earlier numbering, and consequently that the...
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וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּ
אמֹֽר
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2. THE TRIBE OF LEVI
Numbers 1:47
The tribe of Levi is not numbered with the rest. No warlike service,
no half-shekel for the sanctuary, is to be exacted from the Levite.
His contribution to the gene...
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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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The separation of the Levites had certainly some very important
signification. Perhaps to manifest the distinguishing tokens of grace.
And it is probable, that it meant to show, that as in profession...
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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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FOR THE LORD HAD SPOKEN UNTO MOSES,.... Not to number the Levites,
when he gave him the orders to number the rest of the tribes: this is
observed, lest it should be thought that this was what Moses di...
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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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The Levites Set Aside for God's Service....
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For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,...
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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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47-54 Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in
the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular
services shall be recompensed by singular honours. It was to the...
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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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THE LEVITES' RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DWELLINGPLACE (NUMBERS 1:47).
Numbers 1:47
‘But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered
among them.'
But the Levites were not numbered amon...
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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 Levites. .. were not numbered._
THE LEVITES AND THEIR SERVICE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN
MINISTRY
The Levites were exempted from military service, and set apart for the
service of the tab...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:47__ The LEVITES, the priestly tribe, were
not included in the census because they were responsible for the
TABERNACLE, the most vital part of the whole camp. They dismantled...
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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 LEVITES (Numbers 1:47-4).
NUMBERS 1:47
NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM. They _were _numbered (Numbers 3:39)
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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 1:48...
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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...