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Numbers 1:24

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From the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

KJV

Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel

on Numbers 1:20-31

Judah is the largest tribe at 74,600, which John Calvin reads beside Genesis 49:10, “The scepter will not depart from Judah”. Chapter 2 sets Judah first on the march.

This site's exposition

From the sons of Gad

Leah named Zilpah's first son Gad at Genesis 30:11, saying How fortunate. Gad is counted third here, in the place Levi would hold, and John Wesley says Gad is fitly added to Reuben's camp in Levi's room. Jacob foretold raiders against Gad at Genesis 49:19.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Of the children of Gad, by their generations,.... See Gill on Num 1:20.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all, as in the two just mentioned, was owing to the special blessing of God, conformably to the prophetic declaration of the dying patriarch.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] descendants of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • גָ֔דGad

    gadH1410 →72 times

  • תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥םgenealogies their

    toldotamH8435 →39 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖םto clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֑םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of

    bemisparH4557 →134 times

  • שֵׁמ֗וֹתnames

    shemotH8034 →864 times

  • מִבֶּ֨ןfrom a son of

    mibenH1121 →4930 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֤יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • שָׁנָה֙year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • וָמַ֔עְלָהand up -wards

    vama'lahH4605 →140 times

  • כֹּ֖לevery

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • יֹצֵ֥א[one who] goes forth

    yotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • צָבָֽא׃warfare

    tzava'H6635 →485 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

    Genesis 49:19

    Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 30:11

      Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 5:11–22

      The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

    • Deuteronomy 33:20–21

      Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.

    • 1 Chronicles 3:18–22

      Shealtiel his son, Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

    • 1 Chronicles 5:26

      So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…

  • Through

    Genesis 46:16

    The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:15–17

      These were the descendants of Gad by their clans: The Zephonite clan from Zephon, the Haggite clan from Haggi, the Shunite clan from Shuni,

    • Numbers 1:24–25

      From the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    • Genesis 49:19

      Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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