Numbers 2:30

30 his host as numbered being 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 his host as numbered being forty-one thousand five hundred.
29 Then the tribe of Naph'tali, the leader of the people of Naph'tali being Ahi'ra the son of Enan,
30 his host as numbered being fifty-three thousand four hundred.
31 The whole number of the camp of Dan is a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last, standard by standard."
32 These are the people of Israel as numbered by their fathers' houses; all in the camps who were numbered by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
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