Numbers 1:16
These are those who were called from the congregation, the rulers of the tribes of their fathers. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.
17And Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name,
Cross References
Exodus 18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,
Numbers 2:3And those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be those of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:10And the rulers offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the rulers offered their oblation before the altar.
Numbers 10:14And in the first [place] the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set forward according to their armies, and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 16:2and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown,
Deuteronomy 1:15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:2-17
Numbers The titles of the five books of Moses, which we use in our Bibles, are all borrowed from the Greek translation of the Seventy, the most ancient version of the Old Testament that we know of. But the title of this book only we turn into English; in all the rest we retain the Greek word itself, for which difference I know no reason but that the Latin translators have generally done the same. Otherwise this book might as well have been called Arithmoi, the Greek title, as the first Genesis, and the second… Read the whole commentary →