Scofield's Bible Commentary
Numbers 1:2
second month
That is, May; also (Numbers 1:18).
second month
That is, May; also (Numbers 1:18).
Verse Numbers 1:2. _TAKE YE THE SUM, C._] God, having established the commonwealth of Israel by just and equitable laws, ordained every thing relative to the due performance of his own worship, erecte...
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
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...
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...
TAKE YE. Compare Exodus 30:11; Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:25. In Exodus, moral law (prophet); Leviticus, ritual law (priest); Numbers, commonwealth law (king). SUM. Three numberings....
Moses is directed to number the fighting men of Israel with the help of twelve princes....
_their families_ Rather THEIR CLANS, i.e. groups of families related by blood. _fathers_" _houses_ here denotes _families_, smaller groups consisting of close relations; see Numbers 1:4; Exodus 12:3....
TAKE YE THE SUM— See Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26 and the 26th chapter of this book. The tribes were divided into families, the families into houses or households, Judges 7:16 but here _the house of the...
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...
_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 OF THEIR NAMES, EVERY MALE BY THEIR POLLS;_ No JFB commentary...
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...
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...
AFTER THEIR FAMILIES. — The family or clan, _mishpahah,_ included several fathers’ houses (see Kurtz’s _Hist. of the Old Covenant,_ 2, pp. 8-10). WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR NAMES. — Better, _according t...
שְׂא֗וּ אֶת ־רֹאשׁ֙ כָּל ־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי ־יִש
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...
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...
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...
Houses. The families consisted of the immediate descendants of the 12 patriarchs; the houses were from the subdivisions of these. The same plan of numbering the people was adopted on other occasions,...
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...
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...
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,...
TAKE YE THE SUM OF ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Excepting the Levites; nor were any account taken of the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt with the children of Israel, only...
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 of [their] names, every male by their polls; Ver. 2. _Take ye t...
_Take ye the sum_ This is not the same muster with that spoken of Exodus 38:26, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up on the first day...
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...
Take ye, Moses and his assistants, the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel after their families, the large divisions of the tribes known by the name of some prominent leader, Exodus...
THE MUSTER OF THE PEOPLE...
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:...
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...
This is not the same muster with that EXODUS 38:26, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up _on the first day of the first month_, EXODUS...
& 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...
Numbers 1:2 Take H5375 (H8798) census H7218 congregation H5712 children H1121 Israel H3478 families H4940 fathers H1 houses
‘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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
THE CENSUS OF SINAI (Numbers 1:1). EXPOSITION THE CENSUS DIVINELY COMMANDED (Numbers 1:1)....
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...
1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 Chronicles 21:2; 1 Chronicles 27:23; 1 Chronicles 27:24;...
Take the sum — This is not the same muster with that Exodus 38:26, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up on the first day of the first...
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...