Numbers 1:16

These were famous in the Congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, and heads ouer thousands in Israel.

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In The King James Version

These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

In Context

15Of Naphtali, Ahira the sonne of Enan.

17The Moses and Aaron tooke these men which are expressed by their names.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:25And Moses chose men of courage out of all Israel, and made them heads ouer the people, rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes.

Numbers 2:3On the East side towarde the rising of the sunne, shall they of the standerd of the hoste of Iudah pitch according to their armies: and Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab shalbe captaine of the sonnes of Iudah.

Numbers 7:10The princes also offered in the dedication for the altar in the day that it was anoynted: then the princes offered their offering before the altar.

Numbers 10:14In the first place went the standerd of the hoste of the children of Iudah, according to their armies: and Nahshon the sonne of Amminabad was ouer his band.

Numbers 16:2And they rose vp against Moses, with certaine of the children of Israel, two hundreth and fiftie captaines of the assemblie, famous in the Congregation, and men of renoume,

Deuteronomy 1:15So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes wise and knowen men, and made them rulers ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fiftie, and captaines ouer tenne, and officers among 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 →

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