Numbers 10:14

Overview - Numbers 10
The use of the silver trumpets.
11 The Israelites remove from Sinai to Paran.
14 The order of their march.
29 Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them.
33 The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark.
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Numbers 10:14  (King James Version)
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.
 


the first place
The following is the order in which this vast company marched:
Judah:----Issachar, Zebulun, Gershonites, and Merarites,
Reuben:---Simeon, Gad, Kohathites, with the sanctuary.
Ephraim:--Manasseh, Benjamin.
Dan:------Asher, Naphtali.
Among other things, it should be remarked, that, according to a well-known rule of military tactics, the advanced, and rear-guards, were stronger then the centre.

See
2:3-9 26:19-27 Genesis 49:8

Nahshon
1:7 7:12