“ Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.a ”
The princes of the tribes, selected Numbers 1:4 under divine direction, were for the most part the same persons as those chosen a few months previously at the counsel of Jethro Exodus 18:21-26 ....
Numbers 1:1-46 (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. Si...
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. Eliasaph, the son of Deuel - This person is called Reuel, Numbers 2:14 . As the ד daleth is very like the ר resh, it was easy to mistake the one for the other. The...
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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 sepa...
THE CENSUS AND THE CAMP 1. THE MUSTERING Numbers 1:1-46 FROM the place of high spiritual knowledge, where through the revelation of God in covenant and law Israel has been constituted His nat...
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...
I only detain the Reader, after the perusal of these verses of names, (with whose sound we are scarcely acquainted, and of the persons themselves to whom they belong, we know nothing) I only detain h...
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel . Numbers 1:5 .
Deuel Called Reuel, Numbers 2:14 , the Hebrew letters daleth and resh being often changed.
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 Samue...
The Numbering of the Israelites. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses in the wi...
Called Reuel , Numbers 2:14 , the Hebrew letters daleth and resh being very like, and oft changed.
‘And these are the names of the men who will stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. Of Issachar: Ne...
THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE ( Numbers 1:1-3 ) “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 P...
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 afterw...
A man of every tribe: every one head of the house of his fathers. Bank and service I. Co-operation in divine service. 1. The toil of Moses and Aaron would be lessened. 2. The accomplishme...
THE CENSUS OF SINAI ( Numbers 1:1-4 ). EXPOSITION THE CENSUS DIVINELY COMMANDED ( Numbers 1:1-4 ). Numbers 1:1 In the tabernacle of the congregation —where the Lord spa...
The Muster of the People
Numbers 10:20 ; Numbers 2:14 ; Numbers 7:42