Numbers 2 - Introduction
_THE ORDER OF THE TRIBES IN THEIR TENTS._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ORDER OF THE TRIBES IN THEIR TENTS._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL PITCH, &C.— The tribes being mustered, registered, and formed into distinct troops; the next order given to Moses and Aaron is about the regular form of their encampments. Their general camp is appointed to be in the form of an oblong square, of twelve miles... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS HOST, AND THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THEM, WERE, &C.— Our translation is awkward here, as well as in the subsequent verses, where the same thing is spoken of. Houbigant renders it, _with his army, and with those who were numbered, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred._ It might be _... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, &C.— See chap. Numbers 10:17; Numbers 10:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY PITCHED— The order here enjoined was so regular, that the camp of Israel, seen at a distance, must necessarily have appeared very beautiful; and accordingly we find Balaam speaking of it as such. _How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! and thy tabernacles, O Israel!_ &c. Numbers 24:5; Numbers 24... [ Continue Reading ]