the princes: Numbers 1:4-16, Numbers 2:1-34, Numbers 10:1-36
and were over: etc. Heb. who stood
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Numbers 7:2
Numbers 7:2
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Numbers 7 — OverviewNumbers 7 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleGod having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of
Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents,
as tenants to their landlord, in the name of their respective tribes.
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I. When it was; not till it was fully set up, v. 1. When all things
were done both about the tabernacle itself, and the camp of…Numbers 7:1-9Numbers 7:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE WAGONS FOR THE LEVITES
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