Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
a thousand for a tribe--a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel--ye do send to the host.'
Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Voices1
Of every tribe a thousand,.... So that the whole number of those that were armed were 12,000 as after given: throughout all the tribes of Israel; this is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to comprehend the tribe of Levi, which in some cases was left out of the account: shall ye send to the war; to fight with Midian.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Leviticus 26:8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
leads to
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
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Judges 7:2Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
leads to
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
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1 Samuel 14:6Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD…
leads to
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches3
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
