As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Passages linked to Numbers 1:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 1:2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
- Numbers 26:1-2 After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
- 2 Samuel 24:1-10 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.” The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.” Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel. They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer; then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon, and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba. So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he…
Num 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Ver. 19. So he numbered them.] {See Trapp on "Exo 30:12"} At every general muster they paid poll money. {Exo 30:16} Such a taxation was first granted in this kingdom to Edward III; but in the next reign proved of ill consequence; the exactors receiving from the people no less sums of curses than of coin; whereupon, also, followed the first and greatest popular insurrection that ever was seen in this kingdom. {a}
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{a} Daniel’s Hist.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain As the Lord commanded Moses,.... In this Moses and…
As the Lord commanded Moses,.... In this Moses and David differed in numbering the people of Israel; the one did it by an express command from God, and in obedience to it; the other without one, and against his will, Ch1 21:17,
so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai; where they now were when this order was given, Num 1:1; and from whence they removed the twentieth day of this month, Num 10:11; so that in less than three weeks time, perhaps much sooner, this affair was finished; and it may be, that the place of numbering them at this time is expressly observed, to distinguish it from another numbering of them, recorded in this book, which was done in the plains of Moab, Num 26:2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain He numbered them - For ought that appears in…
He numbered them - For ought that appears in one day.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain As the Lord commanded Moses, &c.--The numbering of the…
As the Lord commanded Moses, &c.--The numbering of the people was not an act sinful in itself, as Moses did it by divine appointment; but David incurred guilt by doing it without the authority of God. (See on Sa2 24:10).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them.…
As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them. The usual note of absolute obedience to the Divine instructions; but it serves to express the fundamental difference between this numbering and David"s.
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