Numbers 17:2
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and receive from each of them a rod by their kinships, from all the leaders of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of each one on his rod.
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In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.
Exodus 4:17Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs.”
Numbers 1:5the names of whom are these: of Ruben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
Numbers 7:1Now it happened in the day when Moses completed the tabernacle, and he set it up, and he anointed and sanctified it with all of its vessels, and similarly the altar and all of its vessels,
2 Chronicles 31:17And so, for the priests, by their families, and for the Levites, from the twentieth year and upward, by their orders and companies,
Psalms 125:3The Lord has done great things for us. We have become joyful.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 17:2-8
The Blossoming of Aaron's Rod. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the… Read the whole commentary →