Numbers 26:4
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Numbers 26:4 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Numbers 26:4 is a verse from the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, wh..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Numbers 26:4 — KJV
“Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.”
— Numbers 26:4 (KJV)
Numbers 26:4 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 26:4
“Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 26:4: take, sum, twenty
“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 26:4: sum, people, years
“And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;”
Shares key themes with Numbers 26:4: twenty, years, old
“So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;”
Shares key themes with Numbers 26:4: twenty, years, old
“From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 26:4: twenty, years, old
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