Numbers 1:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. ”

• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred . 35,400 men. Numbers 1:20 .

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• Numbers 1:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thirty-five thousand The smallest number, except one, though Benjamin had more immediate children than any of his brethren, Genesis 46:21 ; whereas Dan had but one immediate son, ( Genesis 46:23 ,...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The smallest number, except one, though Benjamin had more immediate children than any of his brethren, Genesis 46:21 ; whereas Dan had but one immediate son, Genesis 46:23 , yet now his number...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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....

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• Numbers 1:37 - 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...

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• Numbers 1:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Muster of the People

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• Numbers 1:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 17:17 ; Judges 20:44-46 ; Numbers 2:23 ; Numbers 26:41

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• Numbers 1:37 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thirty five thousand — The smallest number, except one, though Benjamin had more immediate children than any of his brethren, Genesis 46:21 , whereas Dan had but one immediate son, Genesis 46:23...

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