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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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B. THE COUNTING, TRIBE BY TRIBE vv. 17-43
TEXT
Numbers 1:17. And Moses and Aaron took these men Which are expressed
by their names: 18. And they assembled all the congregation together
on the first da...
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_THESE WERE THE RENOWNED OF THE CONGREGATION, PRINCES OF THE TRIBES OF
THEIR FATHERS, HEADS OF THOUSANDS IN ISRAEL._
These were the renowned, х_ QªRIY'EEY_ (H7148) _ HAA`EEDAH_
(H5712)] - the called...
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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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POLLS] i.e. heads.
47-54. The Levites are not included in the general census. The tribe
of Levi is separated for the service of the tabernacle, and being
exempt from military service is enumerated se...
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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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Declared their pedigrees. — More literally, _announced themselves as
having been born_ — i.e., caused themselves to be enrolled. The
people appear to have been enrolled by their polls, _i.e.,_
individ...
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וְ אֵ֨ת כָּל ־הָ עֵדָ֜ה הִקְהִ֗ילוּ
בְּ
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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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It is very endearing to behold the Lord Jesus giving in the account of
his people. John 17:6....
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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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AND THEY ASSEMBLED ALL THE CONGREGATION TOGETHER ON THE FIRST [DAY] OF
THE SECOND MONTH,.... The month Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan,
answering to part of April and May: this was done on the selfsam...
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And they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of
the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number...
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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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and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of
the second month; and they, the people, DECLARED THEIR PEDIGREES,
stated exactly from whom they were descended, AFTER THEIR FAMILIE...
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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 1:18 assembled H6950 congregation H5712 together H6950 (H8689)
first H259 second H8145 month H2320 ancestry H3205
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‘And Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name, and
they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the
second month, and they declared their pedigrees (their ‘begettin...
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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 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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Ezra 2:59; Hebrews 7:3; Hebrews 7:6; Nehemiah 7:61; Numbers 1:2;...
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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...