Numbers 1:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. ”

Numbers 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3 , Numbers 1:20 ), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. 2Ki 1:9 , 2 Kings 1:11 , 2 Ki...
Numbers 1:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from t...
Numbers 1:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Numbers 1:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Numbers 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is certainly somewhat very striking in those scriptures which mention the number of the children of Israel. It is plain, that it is of the highest importance in the divine esteem, otherwise the...
Numbers 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred . 46,500 men. Numbers 1:20 .
Numbers 1:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 day of the second month, and they declared the...
Numbers 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Numbering or Assessment of the Tribes (excluding Levi). (For more detail on these ‘numbers' see the Book Comments in e-Sword). The tribes were now assessed tribe by tribe in order to give a...
Numbers 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 1:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Numbers 1:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Those that were numbered. The first army of Israel, an illustration of the Church militant I. The necessity of this army. The Church must be militant. 1. Internal foes have to be conquered....
Numbers 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 obvio...
Numbers 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Muster of the People
Numbers 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 2:10 ; Numbers 2:11 ; Numbers 26:7

Numbers 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 1:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 1:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 1:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 1:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge