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Numbers 26:4 KJV
Numbers · chapter 26 · verse 4
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.Numbers 26:4 · King James Version
Numbers 26:4 in context
2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
4Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
5Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
6Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandedtsâvâhto constitute, enjoinH6680 →
- twentyʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
- upwardmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- MosesMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiverH4872 →
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Observe here, 1. That Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. David in his time did it without a command, and paid dearly for it. God was Israel's king, and he would not have this act of authority done but by his express orders.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4