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Numbers 2:22

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Next will be the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the Benjamites is Abidan son of Gideoni,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

KJV

Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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This verse in Numbers 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The tabernacle or sacred tent of their Divine King, with the camp of the Levites around it (see on Nu 3:38), formed the center, as does the chief's in the encampment of all nomad people. In marching, this order was adhered to, with some necessary variations. Judah led the way, followed, it is most probable, by Issachar and Zebulun [Nu 10:14-16].

This site's exposition

Then the tribe of Benjamin

on Numbers 2:22-24

Benjamin closes the west camp at 35,400, and Rachel's line holds this standard entire, Joseph's two sons together with her second son. The camp totals 108,100, the smallest of the four, and it moves third. That sets the fewest men immediately behind the tabernacle and its Levites, with the two heaviest camps at the head and at the rear.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then the tribe of Benjamin,.... He was to pitch under the same standard of Ephraim, and the other side of it from that of Manasseh; the one being before, and the other behind, and the standard in the middle; See Gill on Num 2:7, and the captains of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni; of whom see Num 1:11.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּמַטֵּ֖הand [the] tribe of

    umatehH4294 →252 times

  • בִּנְיָמִ֑ןBenjamin

    binyaminH1144 →166 times

  • וְנָשִׂיא֙and [the] leader

    venasi'H5387 →134 times

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] descendants

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • בִנְיָמִ֔ןBenjamin

    vinyaminH1144 →166 times

  • אֲבִידָ֖ן[was] Abidan

    ʾavidanH27 →5 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • גִּדְעֹנִֽי׃Gideoni

    gidoniH1441 →5 times

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

Related verses

5 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 7:60

    On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:11

      from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Numbers 1:11

    from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

    it leads to

    • Numbers 7:60

      On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 10:24

      and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Through

    Psalms 68:27

    There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 9:21

      Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing…

    • 1 Chronicles 12:16

      Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

    • Psalms 60:7

      Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

    • Isaiah 11:13

      Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

    • 1 Chronicles 15:3

      And David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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