Numbers 2:30

30 The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

Numbers 2:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:30

And his host
That is, the host of Naphtali;

and those that were numbered of them;
not that some part of the tribe of Naphtali was numbered, which made up the host Ahira was captain of, but the whole of it, who were all numbered that were of twenty years of age and upwards; and the same is to be observed in all the above places, where this phrase is used;

[were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
53,400 men; see ( Numbers 1:43 ) .

Numbers 2:30 In-Context

28 The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred;
29 Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief.
30 The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.
31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.
32 These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
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