those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
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those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
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those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
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- Numbers 26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
- Numbers 2:10-11 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Those that were numbered of them, even of the…
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. 46,500 men. See Gill on Num 1:20.
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num 1:22Of the children of Simeon, by their generations,.... See Gill on Num 1:20.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. Those that were numbered — That is, mustered…
21. Those that were numbered — That is, mustered or marshalled on the basis of the prior enumeration in Exo_38:26, the total of which agrees with that here given. About thirty-eight years after this census another was taken on the table-lands of Moab, east of the Jordan, just before entering into Canaan. We tabulate the results for the convenience of the reader. They eloquently portray the hardships of that wilderness-life during more than a third of a century in which the people actually decreased instead of doubling their number, as they doubtless would have done even in Egyptian servitude:
1st Cen.2d Cen.Ch. 1.Ch. 26.1. Judah74,60076,5002. Dan62,70064,4003. Simeon59,30022,2004. Zebulun57,40060,5005. Issachar54,40064,3006. Naphtali53,40045,4007. Reuben46,50043,7308. Gad45,65040,5009. Asher41,50053,40010. Ephraim40,50032,50011. Benjamin35,40045,60012. Manasseh32,20052,700Total603,550601,730It is a corroborative proof of the correctness of this census that the totals, when arranged in the order of magnitude, correspond nearly with the order of birth of the heads of the tribes. Judah, Simeon, Dan, and Naphtali, among the six oldest, are among the six highest. The sons of Joseph — Ephraim and Manasseh — though each less than the average of the other tribes, because a generation later, yet, counted as one, rank second in the first census and first in the second census. Hence the prediction, Joseph shall be a fruitful bough, is fulfilled. Yet Dr. Adam Clarke sees “no very satisfactory reason for so great a difference” between Judah, of the first generation, and Manasseh, of the second. The real comparison is between Joseph’s descendants and Judah’s. There is only a difference of nineteen hundred. It will be observed that the lowest denomination of figures is neither units nor tens, except Gad, but hundreds. This is a singular coincidence in the figures of a census. It is not reasonable to suppose such an occurrence would happen in eleven enumerations out of twelve. The explanation is, that as the chief reason for this first enumeration was the military organization of the nation, fractions of hundreds — the smallest military division — were rejected if less than fifty, and counted as even hundreds if above fifty. Or the supernumerary units may have balanced the losses from sickness or casualties, it being the purpose of the muster to exhibit the available military strength of the Hebrews. We observe the fulfilment of two predictions as already begun in the first census: 1, That relating to the precedence of Judah, foreseen by Jacob on his dying bed two hundred years before; (Gen_49:8;) and, 2, That relating to the superiority of Ephraim, the younger, to Manasseh, the elder, predicted by the same patriarch. Gen_48:19-20. The decline in the second census was not permanent.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Forty and six thousand and five hundred. All the…
Forty and six thousand and five hundred. All the numbers (save of Gad only) are in unbroken hundreds. It might have been so arranged by miracle; but such an overruling would have no assignable object, and therefore it is far better to fall back on the obvious and natural explanation that the totals were approximate. If they were simply the poll-tax figures unaltered, it would be natural to suppose that the offerings were made up in fifty-shekel lots, and the offerers divided as nearly as possible into hundreds. For military purposes a certain number of supernumeraries would be convenient. In the one excepted case of Gad a half-hundred appears for some unexplained cause.
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