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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...
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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
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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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THOU AND AARON. In second numbering it is Moses and Eleazar, Numbers
26:1....
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Moses is directed to number the fighting men of Israel with the help
of twelve princes....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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מִ בֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָ
מַ֔עְלָה כָּל
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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Numbers 1:3 twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 go H3318 (H8802) war
H6635 Israel H3478 Aaron H175 number...
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‘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...
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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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_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...
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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
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 1:3 ALL... ABLE TO GO TO WAR shows that the
invasion of Canaan is about to happen.
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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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THE CENSUS OF SINAI (Numbers 1:1).
EXPOSITION
THE CENSUS DIVINELY COMMANDED (Numbers 1:1)....
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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 Chronicles 17:13; 2 Chronicles 26:11; 2 Samuel 24:9; Deuteronomy
24:5;...
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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...