Numbers 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

Numbers 1:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 7:4-17
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. …
Numbers 1:5-15
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. …
John 10:3
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

Commentary

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

(vv. 17-43)

We have here the speedy execution of the orders given for the numbering of the people. It was begun the same day that the orders were given, The first day of the second month; compare Num. 1:1; 18. Note, When any work is to be done for God it is good to set about it quickly, while the sense of duty is strong and pressing. And, for aught that appears, it was but one day’s work, for many other thing…

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

(vv. 17)

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…