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انجیل مقدس
گنتی 1:16
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- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the renowned: Keruey haâidah, literally "the called of the congregation," those who were summoned by name to attend. Numbers 2:3-31, Numbers 7:2, Numbers 7:10-83, Numbers 10:14-27, Numbers 11:17, Numbers 16:2, Numbers 26:9, Judges 6:15, 1 Chronicles 27:16-22
heads: Numbers 1:4, Exodus 18:21, Exodus 18:25, Deuteronomy 1:15, 1 Samuel 22:7, 1 Samuel 23:23, Micah 5:2
Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:22 - a ruler hath sinned
Gill's Notes on the Bible
These [were] the renowned of the congregation,.... The most famous and eminent among the people, for their birth and pedigree, or for their excellent qualities of wisdom, courage, and the like; or "the called of the congregation" d, whom God had called by name and selected from the rest of the congregation to the above service, whereby great honour was done them: Aben Ezra says, the sense is, that the congregation did nothing until they had called them; with which agrees the note of Jarchi,
"who were called to every business of importance in the congregation:''
princes of the tribes of their fathers; as Elizur was prince of the children of Reuben, Numbers 7:30; the same is there said of the rest in their respective tribes:
heads of thousands in Israel; the congregation of Israel being divided into thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, by the advice of Jethro,
Exodus 18:21; each of these divisions had a ruler over them, and thousands being the highest number, these princes were chiliarchs, rulers or heads of thousands.
d קריאי העדה "convocati coetus", Montanus, Drusius; "convocati e coetu", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The princes of the tribes, selected Numbers 1:4 under divine direction, were for the most part the same persons as those chosen a few months previously at the counsel of Jethro Exodus 18:21-26. Nahshon, prince of Judah, is mentioned in Exodus 6:23, and Elishama, in 1 Chronicles 7:26-27. The peers of men like these were no doubt entitled, among their fellows, to the epithet “renowned,” Numbers 1:16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 1:16. These were the renowned — Literally, the called, of the congregation - those who were summoned by name to attend. The order of the tribes In the above enumeration may be viewed thus: -
1. Reuben |
2. Simeon |
3. Judah |- Sons of Leah.
4. Issachar |
5. Zebulun |
6. Ephraim |
7. Manasseh |- Sons of Rachel.
8. Benjamin |
9. Dan......... 1st son of Bilhah, Rachel's maid
10. Asher....... 2d son of Zilpah, Leah's maid.
11. Gad......... 1st son of Zilpah.
12. Naphtali.... 2d son of Bilhah.
