Numbers 1:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 7:60
On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
Numbers 10:24
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 2:22
Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is, 1. The date of this commission, Num. 1:1. (1.) The place: it is given at God’s court in the wilderness of Sinai, from his royal palace, the tabernacle of the congregation. (2.) The time: In the second year after they came up out of Egypt;…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

4-16. with you there shall be a man of every tribe, &c.--The social condition of the Israelites in the wilderness bore a close resemblance to that of the nomad tribes of the East in the present day. The head of the tribe was a hereditary dignity, vested in the oldest son or some other to whom the right of primogeniture was transferred, and under whom were other inferior heads, also hereditary, amo…