Numbers 1:16
These were those summoned of the assembly, princes of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15for Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.
17And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names,
Cross References
Exodus 18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.
Numbers 2:3And [for] those encamping eastward toward the sun-rising [there shall be] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
Numbers 7:10And the princes presented the dedication-gift of the altar on the day that it was anointed; and the princes presented their offering before the altar.
Numbers 10:14The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward first according to their hosts, and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
Numbers 16:2and they rose up against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the children of Israel, princes of the assembly, summoned to the council, men of renown;
Deuteronomy 1:15So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers for 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 →