Numbers 26:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

Numbers 26:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 1:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
1 Chronicles 21:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Observe here, 1. That Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. David in his time did it without a command, and paid dearly for it. God was Israel’s king, and he would not have this act of authority done but by his express orders. Moses, perhaps, by this time, had heard of the blessing with which Balaam was constrained, sorely against his will, to bless Israel, and particularly t…