Numbers 2:3

Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

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In The King James Version

And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

In Context

2The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

4The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:23Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

Numbers 1:5These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

Numbers 7:12And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Numbers 10:5When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

Numbers 26:19The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan.

Ruth 4:20And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 2:2-3

The Stations of the Several Tribes. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. Here is the general appointment given both for their orderly encampment where they rested and their orderly march when they moved. Some order, it is possible, they had observed hitherto; they came out of Egypt in rank and file (… Read the whole commentary →

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