Numbers 1:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Numbers 1:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 7:36
On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
Numbers 2:12
And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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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. 6)

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…