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Selected Verse: Numbers 1:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Nu 1:20 |
Strong Concordance |
And the children [01121] of Reuben [07205], Israel's [03478] eldest son [01060], by their generations [08435], after their families [04940], by the house [01004] of their fathers [01], according to the number [04557] of the names [08034], by their polls [01538], every male [02145] from twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] and upward [04605], all that were able to go forth [03318] to war [06635]; |
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King James |
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 twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| These are those that were numbered--In this registration the tribe of Judah appears the most numerous; and accordingly, as the pre-eminence had been assigned to it by Jacob [Gen 49:8-12], it got the precedence in all the encampments of Israel. Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Gen 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all, as in the two just mentioned, was owing to the special blessing of God, conformably to the prophetic declaration of the dying patriarch. But the divine blessing is usually conveyed through the influence of secondary causes; and there is reason to believe that the relative populousness of the tribes would, under God, depend upon the productiveness of the respective localities assigned to them. [For tabular chart, see on Num 26:64.] |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Num 1:3, Num 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. Kg2 1:9, Kg2 1:11, Kg2 1:13). In eleven tribes the number enrolled consists of complete hundreds. The difference, in this respect, observable in the case of the tribe of Gad here Num 1:25, and of the tribe of Reuben at the later census Num 26:7, is probably to be accounted for by the pastoral, and consequently nomadic, habits of these tribes, which rendered it difficult to bring all their members together at once for a census. Judah already takes precedence of his brethren in point of numbers (compare Gen 49:8 note), and Ephraim of Manasseh (compare Gen 48:19-20). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| By their generations - That is, the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular persons. |
64 But among these there was not a man [0376] of them whom Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] the priest [03548] numbered [06485], when they numbered [06485] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514].
22 Joseph [03130] is a fruitful [06509] bough [01121], even a fruitful [06509] bough [01121] by a well [05869]; whose branches [01323] run [06805] over the wall [07791]:
8 Judah [03063], thou art he whom thy brethren [0251] shall praise [03034]: thy hand [03027] shall be in the neck [06203] of thine enemies [0341]; thy father's [01] children [01121] shall bow down [07812] before thee.
9 Judah [03063] is a lion's [0738] whelp [01482]: from the prey [02964], my son [01121], thou art gone up [05927]: he stooped down [03766], he couched [07257] as a lion [0738], and as an old lion [03833]; who shall rouse him up [06965]?
10 The sceptre [07626] shall not depart [05493] from Judah [03063], nor a lawgiver [02710] from between his feet [07272], until [03588] Shiloh [07886] come [0935]; and unto him shall the gathering [03349] of the people [05971] be.
11 Binding [0631] his foal [05895] unto the vine [01612], and his ass's [0860] colt [01121] unto the choice vine [08321]; he washed [03526] his garments [03830] in wine [03196], and his clothes [05497] in the blood [01818] of grapes [06025]:
12 His eyes [05869] shall be red [02447] with wine [03196], and his teeth [08127] white [03836] with milk [02461].
19 And his father [01] refused [03985], and said [0559], I know [03045] it, my son [01121], I know [03045] it: he also shall become a people [05971], and he also shall be great [01431]: but truly [0199] his younger [06996] brother [0251] shall be greater [01431] than he, and his seed [02233] shall become a multitude [04393] of nations [01471].
20 And he blessed [01288] them that day [03117], saying [0559], In thee shall Israel [03478] bless [01288], saying [0559], God [0430] make [07760] thee as Ephraim [0669] and as Manasseh [04519]: and he set [07760] Ephraim [0669] before [06440] Manasseh [04519].
8 Judah [03063], thou art he whom thy brethren [0251] shall praise [03034]: thy hand [03027] shall be in the neck [06203] of thine enemies [0341]; thy father's [01] children [01121] shall bow down [07812] before thee.
7 These are the families [04940] of the Reubenites [07206]: and they that were numbered [06485] of them were forty [0705] and three [07969] thousand [0505] and seven [07651] hundred [03967] and thirty [07970].
25 Those that were numbered [06485] of them, even of the tribe [04294] of Gad [01410], were forty [0705] and five [02568] thousand [0505] six [08337] hundred [03967] and fifty [02572].
13 And he sent [07971] again [07725] a captain [08269] of the third [07992] fifty [02572] with his fifty [02572]. And the third [07992] captain [08269] of fifty [02572] went up [05927], and came [0935] and fell [03766] on his knees [01290] before [05048] Elijah [0452], and besought [02603] him, and said [01696] unto him, O man [0376] of God [0430], I pray thee, let my life [05315], and the life [05315] of these fifty [02572] thy servants [05650], be precious [03365] in thy sight [05869].
11 Again [07725] also he sent [07971] unto him another [0312] captain [08269] of fifty [02572] with his fifty [02572]. And he answered [06030] and said [01696] unto him, O man [0376] of God [0430], thus hath the king [04428] said [0559], Come down [03381] quickly [04120].
9 Then the king [04428] sent [07971] unto him a captain [08269] of fifty [02572] with his fifty [02572]. And he went up [05927] to him: and, behold, he sat [03427] on the top [07218] of an hill [02022]. And he spake [01696] unto him, Thou man [0376] of God [0430], the king [04428] hath said [01696], Come down [03381].
20 And the children [01121] of Reuben [07205], Israel's [03478] eldest son [01060], by their generations [08435], after their families [04940], by the house [01004] of their fathers [01], according to the number [04557] of the names [08034], by their polls [01538], every male [02145] from twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] and upward [04605], all that were able to go forth [03318] to war [06635];
3 From twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] and upward [04605], all that are able to go forth [03318] to war [06635] in Israel [03478]: thou and Aaron [0175] shall number [06485] them by their armies [06635].