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Numbers 10:19

Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

  • KJV King James Version

    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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Cross-references (2)

Passages linked to Numbers 10:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
  • Numbers 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon,

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Kohathites set forward,.... After the standard of…

And the Kohathites set forward,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psa 80:2,

bearing the sanctuary, or the holy things, as Jarchi; the ark, as Aben Ezra; though not that only, which indeed might be eminently called so, it standing in the most holy place, over which were the mercy seat and cherubim, the residence of the divine Majesty; but all the holy things in the holy place, the candlestick, shewbread table, and the two altars, the altar of incense in the holy place, and the altar of burnt offerings in the court these they bore on their shoulders, and had no wagons allowed for their assistance:

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and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came; that is, the sons of Gershon and Merari, who went before between the standard of Judah and the standard of Reuben, carrying the heavier and more cumbersome parts of the tabernacle; which, when Judah pitched their tents, at the signal of the cloud, they immediately put together, and erected, and got it ready, by such time as the Kohathites came up to them, that so the ark and other holy things might be at once put into it, and set in their proper places.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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