Numbers 1:16
These are the very noble leaders of the multitude, by their tribes and kinships, and the heads of the army of Israel.
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In Context
15of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.”
17Moses and Aaron took these, with all the multitude of the common people,
Cross References
Exodus 18:25And choosing virtuous men from all of Israel, he appointed them as leaders of the people: tribunes, and leaders of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.
Numbers 2:3To the east, Judah shall fix his tents, by the companies of his army. And the leader of his sons shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:10Therefore, the leaders offered, at the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.
Numbers 10:14were the sons of Judah by their companies, whose leader was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 16:2rose up against Moses, with two hundred fifty others of the sons of Israel, leading men of the assembly, and who, at the time of a council, would be called by name.
Deuteronomy 1:15And so, I took from your tribes men, wise and noble, and I appointed them as rulers, as tribunes and centurions, and as leaders over fifty and over ten, who would teach you each thing.
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 →