Numbers 1:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

Take ye the sum

The children

Genesis 49:1

Exodus 1:1

After

Numbers 1:18

Exodus 6:14

General references

Numbers 1:19

Bible References

Take ye the sum

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral houses of those 20 years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”

“When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for himself to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.

2⁄5 of an ounce per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone 20 years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men.

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”

Satan

stood up against Israel and incited David to count the people of Israel.

David didn’t count the men aged 20 or under, for the Lord had said He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

The children

Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:

After

and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,

These are the heads of their fathers’ families:

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel:
Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.
These are the clans of Reuben.

General references

just as the Lord commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai: