Numbers 1:16
These, are they who had been summoned by the assembly, being princes of the tribes of their fathers,—heads of the thousands of Israel.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15Of Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.
17So then Moses and Aaron took these men, who were distinguished by name;
Cross References
Exodus 18:25and Moses chose men of ability out of all Israel, and set them to be heads over the people,—rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Numbers 2:3And they who encamp eastwards towards sunrise, shall be the standard of the camp of Judah by their hosts,—even the prince of the sons of Judah, Nashon, son of Amminadab;
Numbers 7:10So then the princes offered for the dedication of the altar, on the day it was anointed,—yea the princes offered their oblation before the altar,
Numbers 10:14So the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set forward first, by their hosts, and over his own host, was Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
Numbers 16:2and rose up before Moses, with certain men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty,—princes of assembly, called to the stated meeting, men of renown;
Deuteronomy 1:15So I took heads for your tribes wise men and known, and placed them as heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers 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 →