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Numbers 1:52

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The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.

KJV

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

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This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony

on Numbers 1:50-53

Levi is taken off one service and put to another, taking the tabernacle down, setting it up, bearing it and camping around it. The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death, and the stranger meant is any Israelite outside Levi, a rule repeated at 3:10, 3:38 and 18:7 and tested by Korah in chapter 16. Israel pitches by standard at a distance, Levi forms a ring between, and verse 53 states the reason outright, that there be no wrath upon the congregation. The word standard occurs at verse 52 for the first time in Scripture, before chapter 2 names the four.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Great care must be taken to prevent sin, because the preventing of sin is the preventing of wrath. It was their further honour that as Israel, being a holy people, was not reckoned among the nations, so they, being a holy tribe, were not reckoned among other Israelites, but numbered afterwards by themselves,

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְחָנ֖וּand they will encamp

    vechanuH2583 →143 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אִ֧ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • עַֽל־at

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מַחֲנֵ֛הוּcamp his

    machanehuH4264 →215 times

  • וְאִ֥ישׁand everyone

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • עַל־at

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • דִּגְל֖וֹstandard his

    digloH1714 →14 times

  • לְצִבְאֹתָֽם׃to military groups their

    letzivotamH6635 →485 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 24:2

    When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 19:20

      he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.

    • 2 Chronicles 15:1

      Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

    • 1 Samuel 19:23

      So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

    • 1 Samuel 10:10

      When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied along with them.

    • Numbers 2:2–34

      “The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

  • Through

    Numbers 2:2

    “The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

    it leads to

  • Through

    Numbers 2:34

    So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 119:6

      Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 1 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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