Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. < Numbers 1:36 | > Numbers 1:38 Reflection Numbers 1:37 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers
The book of Numbers is a historical and instructional book of the Old Testament that chronicles the journey of the Israelites from Mount Sinai to the borders of the Promised Land. It records their trials, triumphs, and failures, highlighting God’s faithfulness, provision, and justice throughout their forty years in the wilderness. Numbers combines census data, legal instructions, and narratives to teach lessons about obedience, trust, and the consequences of rebellion.
Numbers emphasizes God’s guidance and sovereignty. Despite the people’s doubts, complaints, and disobedience, God remains faithful, providing for their needs, directing their journey, and upholding His covenant promises. The book also prepares the next generation for the responsibility of entering the Promised Land, underscoring the importance of faith and leadership.
This book encourages reflection on God’s faithfulness, the importance of trust, and the necessity of obedience in following His commands. Numbers demonstrates that God’s plan unfolds even amid human failure and uncertainty, and that His promises are sure for those who remain faithful.
Explore the book of Numbers to understand God’s guidance, learn from the Israelites’ journey, and gain insight into living faithfully under His direction.
Numbers 1:38
Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; < Numbers 1:37 | > Numbers 1:39 Reflection Numbers 1:38 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, […]
Numbers 1:39
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. < Numbers 1:38 | > Numbers 1:40 Reflection Numbers 1:39 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. < Numbers 1:3 | > Numbers 1:5 Reflection Numbers 1:4 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 1:40
Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; < Numbers 1:39 | > Numbers 1:41 Reflection Numbers 1:40 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, […]
Numbers 1:41
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. < Numbers 1:40 | > Numbers 1:42 Reflection Numbers 1:41 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 1:42
Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; < Numbers 1:41 | > Numbers 1:43 Reflection Numbers 1:42 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, […]
Numbers 1:43
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. < Numbers 1:42 | > Numbers 1:44 Reflection Numbers 1:43 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 1:44
These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. < Numbers 1:43 | > Numbers 1:45 Reflection Numbers 1:44 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s […]
Numbers 1:45
So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; < Numbers 1:44 | > Numbers 1:46 Reflection Numbers 1:45 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws […]
Numbers 1:46
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. < Numbers 1:45 | > Numbers 1:47 Reflection Numbers 1:46 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but […]
Numbers 1:47
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. < Numbers 1:46 | > Numbers 1:48 Reflection Numbers 1:47 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]
Numbers 1:48
For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, < Numbers 1:47 | > Numbers 1:49 Reflection Numbers 1:48 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing lord, spoken, moses, […]
Numbers 1:49
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: < Numbers 1:48 | > Numbers 1:50 Reflection Numbers 1:49 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 1:5
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. < Numbers 1:4 | > Numbers 1:6 Reflection Numbers 1:5 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This […]
Numbers 1:50
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. < Numbers 1:49 | > Numbers 1:51 […]
Numbers 1:51
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. < Numbers 1:50 | > Numbers 1:52 Reflection Numbers 1:51 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture […]
Numbers 1:52
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. < Numbers 1:51 | > Numbers 1:53 Reflection Numbers 1:52 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the […]
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony. < Numbers 1:52 | > Numbers 1:54 Reflection Numbers 1:53 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often […]
Numbers 1:54
And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they. < Numbers 1:53 | > Numbers 2:1 Reflection Numbers 1:54 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its […]
Numbers 1:6
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. < Numbers 1:5 | > Numbers 1:7 Reflection Numbers 1:6 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing simeon, shelumiel, zurishaddai, it […]
Numbers 1:7
Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab. < Numbers 1:6 | > Numbers 1:8 Reflection Numbers 1:7 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing judah, nahshon, amminadab, it […]
Numbers 1:8
Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar. < Numbers 1:7 | > Numbers 1:9 Reflection Numbers 1:8 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing issachar, nethaneel, zuar, it […]
Numbers 1:9
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. < Numbers 1:8 | > Numbers 1:10 Reflection Numbers 1:9 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing zebulun, eliab, helon, it […]
Numbers 10:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, < Numbers 9:23 | > Numbers 10:2 Reflection Numbers 10:1 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing lord, spake, moses, saying, […]
Numbers 10:10
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God. […]
Numbers 10:11
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. < Numbers 10:10 | > Numbers 10:12 Reflection Numbers 10:11 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, […]
Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. < Numbers 10:11 | > Numbers 10:13 Reflection Numbers 10:12 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This […]
Numbers 10:13
And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. < Numbers 10:12 | > Numbers 10:14 Reflection Numbers 10:13 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but […]
Numbers 10:14
In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. < Numbers 10:13 | > Numbers 10:15 Reflection Numbers 10:14 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and […]