Numbers 1:20-46
Num 2:10-11, Num 26:5-7; Gen 29:32, Gen 46:9, Gen 49:3-4; 1Chr 5:1 That a comparative view may be easily taken of the state of the tribes, we will here produce them, compared with that of the second census (Num 26:1), in their decreasing proportion, beginning with the greatest and proceeding to the least. Thus we find Judah the most populous tribe, and Manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as 42,000. Jacob had given Judah the pre-eminence in his prophetic blessing; and that tribe was to have the precedency in the encampments of Israel. Accordingly God had increased them more than any of their brethren. Ephraim and Manasseh, according to the same prophecy, were numbered as distinct tribes, Ephraim having the superiority, as it was foretold; and Joseph indeed appears "a fruitful bough." Num 2:10-11, Num 26:7 Num 2:12-13, Num 26:12-14; Gen 29:33, Gen 34:25-30, Gen 42:24, Gen 46:10, Gen 49:5-6 Num 2:13, Num 25:8-9, Num 25:14, Num 26:14 The tribe of Gad marched, along with that of Simeon, under the standard of Reuben; and it seems, on that account, to have been introduced in this order. The other tribes also, are here classed together according to their encampments, and the order of their subsequent march. Num 2:14-15, Num 26:15-18; Gen 30:10-11, Gen 46:16, Gen 49:19 Num 2:15, Num 26:18 Num 2:3-4, Num 26:19-22; Gen 29:35, Gen 46:12, Gen 49:8-12; 2Sam 24:9; 1Chr 5:2; 2Chr 17:14-16 Num 2:3-4, Num 26:22; 2Sam 24:9; 2Chr 17:14-16 Num 2:5-6, Num 23:23-25; Gen 30:18, Gen 46:13, Gen 49:14-15 Num 2:6, Num 26:25 Num 2:7-8, Num 26:26-27; Gen 30:20, Gen 46:14, Gen 49:13 Num 2:8, Num 26:27 Num 2:18-19, Num 26:35-37; Gen 30:24, Gen 37:1-36, Gen 39:1-23, Gen 46:20, Gen 48:1-22; Gen 49:22-26; Deut 33:17 the tribe Gen 48:5; Deut 33:17 were forty Num 2:19, Num 26:37 Manasseh Num 26:34; Gen 41:51, Gen 46:20, Gen 48:1, Gen 50:23; Deut 33:17; Josh 4:12, Josh 17:1; 1Chr 7:14; Rev 7:6 Num 2:21, Num 26:34; Gen 48:19-20 Gen 35:16-18, Gen 44:20, Gen 46:21, Gen 49:27 Num 2:23, Num 26:41; Judg 20:44-46; 2Chr 17:17 Gen 30:5-6, Gen 46:23, Gen 49:16-17 Num 2:26, Num 26:43 Gen 30:12-13, Gen 46:27, Gen 49:20 Num 2:28, Num 26:47 Naphtali Gen 30:7-8, Gen 46:24, Gen 49:21 Num 2:30, Num 26:50 Num 1:2-16, Num 26:64 What an astonishing increase from seventy persons who went down into Egypt about 215 years before, where they had latterly endured the greatest hardships! Such was the effect of God's promise, which cannot fail. Num 2:32, Num 23:10, Num 26:51; Gen 12:2, Gen 13:16, Gen 15:5, Gen 17:6, Gen 22:17, Gen 26:3, Gen 28:14; Gen 46:3-4; Exod 12:37, Exod 38:26; Deut 10:22; 1Kgs 4:20; 2Sam 24:9; 1Chr 21:5; 2Chr 13:3, 2Chr 17:14-19; Heb 11:11-12; Rev 7:4-9
Copyright information for
TSK