Numbers 1:47
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Numbers 1:47 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Numbers 1:47 is a verse from the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Numbers 1:47 — KJV
“But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.”
— Numbers 1:47 (KJV)
Numbers 1:47 in Context — About the Book of Numbers
Numbers follows Israel through forty years of wilderness — a journey that should have taken eleven days. It is an honest record of grumbling, unbelief, and consequence, but also of God's patient provision: manna, water, guidance by cloud and fire, and the famous priestly blessing.
Cross-References for Numbers 1:47
“And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:”
Shares key themes with Numbers 1:47: levites, after, fathers
“All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,”
Shares key themes with Numbers 1:47: levites, after, fathers
“When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. their number: Heb. them that are to be numbered”
Shares key themes with Numbers 1:47: after, numbered, among
“This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 1:47: after, numbered, among
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. sleep: Heb. lie down”
Shares key themes with Numbers 1:47: after, fathers, among
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