15 occurrences

'Number' in the Bible

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

Verse ConceptsGenealogiesTwenty Thousand And Up

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

When they were only a few in number,Very few, and strangers in it,

Verse ConceptsForeignersCymbals

So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their number.”

Verse ConceptsCounting Soldiers

Joab gave the number of the census of all the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelThree To Nine Hundred ThousandA Million And More

But he did not number Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.

Verse ConceptsCensus

and timbers of cedar logs beyond number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought large quantities of cedar timber to David.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCedarCedar Wood

The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

Verse ConceptsThirtyThirty Thousand And Up

These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were counted, in the number of names by their census, doing the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalMiddle Age

and to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord, on the sabbaths, the new moons and the fixed festivals in the number set by the ordinance concerning them, continually before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsMoonSabbath, In Ot

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps and cymbals; and the number of those who performed their service was:

Verse ConceptsCommanderHarpsLyreMinistry, Nature OfMusicMusical Instruments, types ofServanthood, And Worship Of GodCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

Their number who were trained in singing to the Lord, with their relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.

Verse ConceptsSingersOrchestrastraining

and his relatives, capable men, were 2,700 in number, heads of fathers’ households. And King David made them overseers of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites concerning all the affairs of God and of the king.

Verse ConceptsTwo Thousand

Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to count them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David.

Verse ConceptsCensusBooks, Not Preserved

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