Numbers 1:40,41 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war, those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.'

A similar mobilisation took place for the tribe of Asher, amounting to forty one families/military officers and five ‘hundreds' (men in five military units) ready for war.

Numbers 1:40-41

40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.