Numbers 1:46 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ”

• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - 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 1:46 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  all they. The number in Exodus 12:37 is not "exaggerated", as the number here had increased since then; moreover, the numbers here coincide with the numbers of the half-shekels, which had been co...

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• Numbers 1:46 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. All they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and...

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• Numbers 1:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Even all they that were numbered, &c.— Upon an exact poll, wherein every man's name was distinctly set down and his pedigree stated, the number of true-born Israelites, from twenty years old an...

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• Numbers 1:46 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; Six hundred t...

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• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. — It is obvious that the odd numbers were not reckoned. In Numbers 11:21 as in Exodus 12:37 , the whole number is reckoned rou...

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• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Numbered for War; Set Apart for Worship Numbers 1:1-4 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...

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• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Pause again, my brother, and reflect, what a standing miracle of mercy must it have been in the Lord, to have fed this great multitude in the wilderness, day by day for forty years together. And when...

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• Numbers 1:46 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Even all they that were numbered ,.... Of whom an account was taken, and their names set down in a book or register: were 603,550; which was exactly the number of them, when taken about seven months...

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• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.   45 So were all those that...

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• Numbers 1:46 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Numbers 1:46 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel, even all those who were numbered...

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• Numbers 1:46 - 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 1:46 - 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 1:46 - 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 1:46 - 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 1:46 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Muster of the People

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• Numbers 1:46 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 21:5 ; 1 Kings 4:20 ; 2 Chronicles 13:3 ; 2 Chronicles 17:14-19 ; 2 Samuel 24:9 ; Deuteronomy 10:22 ; Exodus 12:37 ; Exodus 38:26 ; Genesis 12:2 ; Genesis 13:16 ; Genesis 15:5...

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