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Commentaries on Numbers 1:41

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 1 In this chapter orders are given to Moses to take the number of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upwards, Numbers 1:1; and the men that were to assist in this work, one of each tribe are mentioned by name, Numbers 1:4; all which was accordingly done, Numbers 1:17; and the particular numbers of each tribe are recorded, as they were taken, Numbers 1:20;...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred. 41,500 men. [See comments on Numbers 1:20].

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

The Numbering of the Israelites. (b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 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...