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Numbers 7:60

in Numbers 7

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin:

KJV

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:

This verse in Numbers 7

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered. See Num 1:11.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But while this was done in one respect, as subjects offering tribute to their king, it was in another respect, a purely religious act. The vessels offered were for a sacrificial use--the animals brought were clean and fit for sacrifice, both symbolically denoting, that while God was to dwell among them as their Sovereign, they were a holy people, who by this offering dedicated themselves to God.

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.

  • בַּיּוֹם֙on the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַתְּשִׁיעִ֔י<the> ninth

    hateshiiH8671 →

  • נָשִׂ֖יא[the] leader

    nasi'H5387 →134 times

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] descendants of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • בִנְיָמִ֑ןBenjamin

    vinyaminH1144 →166 times

  • אֲבִידָ֖ןAbidan

    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.

The walk

5 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 2:22

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

    it leads to

    • Numbers 10:24

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

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 1:11

      from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

    • Numbers 7:65

      and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.

    • Psalms 68:27

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

  • Through

    Numbers 1:11

    from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

    it leads to

    • Numbers 2:22

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

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).