Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe
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Bible References
The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe
Numbers 1:2
Take you 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 individually;
Exodus 30:12
When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
Exodus 38:25
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and three score and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
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Numbers 1:19
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.