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Enduring Word Bible Commentary Numbers Chapter 1. Numbers 1 – The Census of Israel. “The Book of Numbers might be called, without any impropriety, ‘Moses’s Pilgrim’s Progress.’. It contains a full account of the progress of the pilgrims through the wilderness until they came to the promised land.
1. (Numbers 1:1) God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai. Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: a.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. 1:1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to ...
"Take ye the sum of the children of Israel by their families… by their polls" (Numbers 1:2). The words here rendered "take ye the sum of" are not the technical word for "census."
Here is, 1. The date of this commission, v. 1. (1.) The place: it is given at God's court in the wilderness of Sinai, from his royal palace, the tabernacle of the congregation. (2.) The time: In the second year after they came up out of Egypt; we may call it the second year of that reign.
They that minister about holy things, should neither entangle themselves, nor be entangled, in worldly affairs. And let every believer seek to do what the Lord has commanded. Read Numbers 1 commentary using Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise).
The death of Miriam; the waters of Meribah. The Lord tells Moses that because he did not sanctify him in the eyes of the congregation, he shall not bring the people into the promised land. The king of Edom refuses the Israelites a passage through his territories.
Matthew Henry's Commentary. Numbers 1:1. And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 1:1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob ...
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