The Numberings of the People (1)

After the plague in which 24,000 perished on account of Israel's whoredoms and idolatry with Moab, (Nu. 25.), Moses and Eleazar, the high priest, received from the Lord the command to number the people from 20 years old and upward "throughout their fathers' house" (Nu. 26). This was to be the second numbering, the first having taken place some 39 years previous in the beginning of the second year of Israel's sojourn in the wilderness. In treating this subject I arrange my materials under the...