Numbers 2:27

27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.

Numbers 2:27 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:27

And those that encamp by him [shall be] the tribe of Asher,
&c.] Dan had a standard given him, though the son of an handmaid, being the firstborn of the sons of the handmaids, and his tribe being a warlike tribe, and very numerous; and Asher and Naphtali are placed by him, being the sons of handmaids also, and could not but contentedly pitch by him, who was the eldest of the sons of the handmaids Naphtali being his younger brother by mother's as well as father's side, and Asher the second son of Zilpah, Leah's maid:

and the captain of the children of Asher [shall be] Pagiel the son of
Ocran;
the same as in ( Numbers 1:13 ) ( 7:72 ) .

Numbers 2:27 In-Context

25 On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisaddai.
26 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.
28 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
29 Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.
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