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Numbers 2:34

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

KJV

And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

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This verse in Numbers 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Balaam was charmed with the sight of it: How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! ch. xxiv. Thus the gospel church, called the camp of saints, ought to be compact according to the scripture model, every one knowing and keeping his place, and then all that wish well to the church rejoice, beholding their order, Col. ii.

This site's exposition

But the Levites were not numbered

on Numbers 2:33-34

Levi stands outside the count of the twelve and is numbered on its own terms at Numbers 3:39, every male from a month old, 22,000, because the tribe was taken in place of the firstborn at 3:12-13. The chapter closes on Israel doing all that was commanded, and Balaam is the man who later saw the result, looking down on Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes and saying how goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, at Numbers 24:2 and 24:5. Readers have found more in the shape of the camp than the text describes: Barnes carries the square around the tent forward to the square city of Revelation 21:16, Jewish writers whom Gill reports assign a lion, a man, an ox and an eagle to the four standards, and Missler reads those four as the faces of Ezekiel 1 and the outline of the camp as a cross. Numbers 2 names the sides, the captains and the numbers and says nothing of emblems or shape, so those readings stand on their holders rather than on the verse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses,....

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֖וּand they did

    vaiyaasuH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • כְּ֠כֹלaccording to all

    kekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֨הhe had commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • כֵּֽן־so

    ken-H3651 →771 times

  • חָנ֤וּthey camped

    chanuH2583 →143 times

  • לְדִגְלֵיהֶם֙to standards their

    ledigleihemH1714 →14 times

  • וְכֵ֣ןand so

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • נָסָ֔עוּthey set out

    nasauH5265 →146 times

  • אִ֥ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖יוto clans his

    lemishpechotavH4940 →303 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָֽיו׃ancestors his

    ʾavotavH1 →1212 times

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

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 119:6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.5 worksNumbers 1:52The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.4 worksNumbers 24:2When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,3 worksNumbers 24:5–6How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!3 worksLuke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.3 worksNumbers 10:28This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.3 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 1:54Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.2 worksNumbers 23:9–10For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.2 worksNumbers 23:21He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.2 worksNumbers 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.2 worksExodus 39:42The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.2 works

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

    Luke 1:6

    Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 7:1

      Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

    • Genesis 17:1

      When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

    • Philippians 2:15

      so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

    • 1 Kings 9:4

      And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and…

    • Job 1:1

      There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

  • Through

    Psalms 119:6

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

    it leads to

    • 1 John 2:28

      And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

    • Job 22:26

      Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

    • John 15:14

      You are My friends if you do what I command you.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 2 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; 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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