13And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
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These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-34)We have here the particular distribution of the twelve tribes into four squadrons, three tribes in a squadron, one of which was to lead the other two. Observe, 1. God himself appointed them their place, to prevent strife and envy among them. Had they been left to determine precedency among themselves, they would have been in danger of quarrelling with one another (as the disciples who strove which…
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