3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
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Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
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 Egyp…
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