Numbers 2:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

Numbers 2:7 —

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Numbers 1:9
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 10:16
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 1:30-31
Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; …
Numbers 7:24
On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
Numbers 7:29
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

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Eliab Helon Zabulon Zebulun

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…

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

(vv. 7)

7. Then the tribe of Zebulun--on the other side. While Judah’s tribe was the most numerous, those of Issachar and Zebulun were also very numerous; so that the association of those three tribes formed a strong and imposing van.