Numbers 1:42,43 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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‘Of the children of Naphtali, 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 Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.'

A similar mobilisation took place for the tribe of Naphtali, amounting to fifty three families/military officers and four ‘hundreds' (men in four military units) ready for war.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 1:42

Numbers 1:42-43

42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout 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;

43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.