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Numbers 1:16 KJV
Numbers · chapter 1 · verse 16
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.Numbers 1:16 · King James Version
Numbers 1:16 in context
14Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
15Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
16These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
17And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
18And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- congregationʻêdâha stated assemblageH5712 →
- thousandsʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- renownedqârîyʼcalledH7148 →
- princesnâsîyʼproperly, an exalted oneH5387 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- tribesmaṭṭeha branchH4294 →
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I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is, 1. The date of this commission, Num 1:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16