Numbers 1:5

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you,.... Be present with Moses and Aaron when numbering the people; not merely as spectators of the affair, and inspectors of the accounts, but…

The princes of the tribes, selected Num 1:4 under divine direction, were for the most part the same persons as those chosen a few months previously at the counsel of Jethro Exo 18:21-26. Nahshon,…

I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is,

1. The date of this commission, Num…

The twenty-four names in the following verses recur in chs. 2, 7. and Num 10:14-27. Some of them are of types which were frequent in early times, Amminadab (Num 1:1), Ammhud (Num 1:1), Elishama…