2Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
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In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. …
And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here we have, I. Orders given for the bringing in of a rod for every tribe (which was peculiarly significant, for the word here used for a rod sometimes signifies a tribe, as particularly Num. 34:13), that God by a miracle, wrought on purpose, might make it known on whom he had conferred the honour of the priesthood. 1. It seems then the priesthood was a preferment worth seeking and striving for,…
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