Numbers 4:48 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁸Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

Numbers 4:48 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 3:39
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 20:16
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Topics

Kohath Korhites Levi Levites Merari Minister, Christian Priest Scribe (s)

Commentary

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

(vv. 34-49)

We have here a particular account of the numbers of the three families of the Levites respectively, that is, of the effective men, between thirty years old and fifty. Observe, 1. The Kohathites were, in all, 8600 from a month old and upwards; but of these there were but 2750 serviceable men, not a third part. The Gershonites, in all, 7500, and of them but 2630 serviceable men, little more than a t…

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

(vv. 48)

34-49. Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites, &c.--This enumeration was made on a different principle from that which is recorded in the preceding chapter [Nu 3:15]. That was confined to the males from a month old and upward, while this was extended to all capable of service in the three classes of the Levitical tribe. In considering their relative n…