Army Numbered by Tribe

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions where every weekday morning you and I get together, we have a little bit of coffee, milk, tea, whatever you happen to have. We get into God's Word and we grow in our love for the Lord, together. And this year, 2024, Lord willing, we're going to make it through Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Hebrews. Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Hebrews.
No judges. Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's Word. Okay, let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you so much. Yeah, I see your milk mustache. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for your word. Please, Father, help us to understand your word. Please, by the power of your Holy Spirit, teach us this morning. In Jesus' name, amen.
Okay, so we are at You know, the interesting thing is the Book of Numbers, you said, I could see why it's listed as called Numbers. There's actually a lot more stories than there are numbers in the Book of Numbers. I'm serious, there are. And so, but when we first start out, there are a lot of genealogies and numbers. So, today is one of those days where there's lots of names.
And so, I just, here's a trick with names, you ready? Just don't stop. Right, if you have a hard time with the name, that's okay, just keep on going. Alright, so we're just going to take turns and I'll start. We're going to read from verse 17 all the way down to verse, let's see,
46. So, it's not hard, right? There's really what we're looking for, just as you know, okay, when we go through, we're looking for what tribe is this? So what is the tribe and what is the number? We'll let Daniel start with reading verse 17. Then Moses and Aaron took those men who had been mentioned by name and They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month. And they, this is a hard one, recited We haven't learned this word either.
Ancestry. Families. By their fathers' houses. According to the numbers of names from old to new. So there's two vowels together, so it's years. Last, old, and above. What's the e do to the o? Above. Each one. Individually. As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. Good job, Daniel. Great job reading.
So what are they doing? Yeah, they're counting the number of people by reciting their ancestry. What does that mean? When it says that they recited their ancestry by families, by their father's houses. So his father was this, his mother was this, his house was this. Yeah, so they would go down the line to prove that they were truly from the tribes of Jacob.
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great- 70 years old and above, all who were able to go to war, those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500. Okay, so which tribe is this? Reuben. Reuben.
And how many men are 20 years old and above able to go to war? 46,500. Good job. Nathan, can you read 22 through 23? For the children of Simeon, their general genealogies by their father's house, those who were numbered according to the number of names every male individual from 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war. Those who were numbered of the tribe Simeon were 59,300. Okay, so which tribe is this? Simeon. And what are they counting? All the people? No. All the men? Every single one of them?
20 years old and above. 20 years old and above who were? Able to go to war. Able to go to war. And how many people are in the tribe of Simeon of that age? 59,300. Good. From the children of Gad, their genealogies, by their families, by their father's house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war, those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were 55,650. So which tribe is this? Gad. Gad.
And what are they counting? Men twenty and above. Men, 20 and above, who are? Able to go to war. And how many are in this tribe, in Gad? 45,650. Good job. Daniel, can you read verse 26? 26. It's up here. From the children of Judah. Judah. Now. Genealogies. Is by the family. by their families. He's by their father's house. According to the numbers of names, he's from 20 years old and above all who were able to go to war. Thousands and six hundred. Dude, good job. So which tribe is this? Judah. And what are they counting? Men who were over 20 years old able to go to war. And how many were there of Judah? 74,600. 74,600. Good job, Debra. Yes, they have the most. Yep, they have the most. Debra, can you read 28 and 29?
From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their father's house, according to the number of names of 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war, those who were numbered of the tribe, of Issachar were 54,400. Okay, so which tribe is this? And what are they counting? Men were about 20 and able to go to war. And how many are there from Issachar?
54,400. Good job. Nathan, 30 and 31? From the children of Zebulun, the genealogies by their family, ran a father's house. According to the number of names from 20 years old and above, all were able to go to war. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400. Okay, Zebulun. Can you say that again? Zebulun. Zebulun. Okay, so this is which tribe? Zebulun. And what are they counting? Men who are over 20 years old and able to go to war. And how many are there? 57,400.
From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies, by their families, by their father's house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies, by their families, by their father's house, according to the number of names, From 20 years old and above all who were able to go to war, those who were numbered in the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
Why do you think I read Ephraim and Manasseh together? Yeah, they're both in the tribe of Joseph, right? So Joseph is counted twice, right? Because Jacob adopted Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. And so there's actually not just 12, but there's, depending on how you count, there's either 12 or 13 tribes, right? And so, and what are they counting from Ephraim and Manasseh? A lot. What are they counting? Who are they counting?
20 men who are over 20 and able to go to war. Yeah, men who are over 20 years old and able to go to war. Yeah, I see. You can go to war, you think. I don't think so. We read that. You want to read 36 and 37? 30, that's 30, 32. And to Vanessa were 34. Nope,
36. From Benjamin they'll get at. Genealogies. By their fathers, by their. By their families, by their father's house. And according to the numbers of. Names. Of names. From 20. years old and above all who were eligible to vote. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,004 All right, so Benjamin has 35,400 men 20 years old and above able to go to war. Debra, do you want to read 38 and 39? The children of Dan are genealogies by their families by the father's house.
According to the number of Names from 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Dan are 62,700. Okay, so which tribe is this? Dan. Dan. And how many are there? 62,700. 62,700 what? Good. Nathan, can you reverse 40 and 41? I have a question. What's your question? I thought you said Benjamin was the youngest. Yep, so notice Joseph and Benjamin are coming before Dan. So they come before Dan because guess what? We have Leah and Rachel Because Jacob had children with four women.
Right? Four women. That's right. He married Leah and then he married Rachel. But then both of them gave him their maidservants to have children with also. Is that a good thing? No. Right. We're not in favor of that. But is that what happened? Yeah, so there's no need to whitewash history, that's what happened.
Jacob tried to take the covenant by his own means. The Lord uses that, but it doesn't mean it's necessarily good. But you're very perceptive. Benjamin is the youngest, and yet here he's in the middle, right? Because he's the children of the wives, not of the concubines.
Alright, Nathan, verse 40 and 41. From the children of Asher, the genealogies by their families, by their father's house, according to the number of names, from 20 years old and above, old and above, all who were able to go to war. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
OK, so which tribe is this, Ellie? Uh-oh. Daniel, do you remember? The tribe of Asher. And what are they counting Debra? Men 20 years old. Okay, men 20 years old. You are able to do what Ellie? Go to war. Go to war. That's right. Go to war. So I can. From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by families, by their father's house, according to the number of families from 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war, those who were numbered of the tribe of Naphtali, who were 53,400. So that's Naphtali. I got a mustache. I should be able. Okay, now these are the last three verses. It's a long section. You guys have done really well. I thought we were only going to 42? To 46. So Nathan, you want to read the last three verses? Sure, so like 40... 44, 45, and 46.
These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, the leaders of Israel. Twelve men, each one representing his father's house. To all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war. All who were numbered were 603,550. Okay, so 603,550 men who were above 20 years old and able to go to war.
Does that sound like a small little force? Now we got over half a million men ready to fight. Isn't it funny, like you can tell how careful that person was counting when it's like, it was like down to the like tens and then sometimes it's like down to the thousands. Yep. So I'm not sure, right, because all of them are completely even numbers, right? To end up with 603,550 and you notice all of them ended with zeros, right? I think they are doing some rounding numbers. Yeah, they're going to go to war. Where are they going to go to war against? They came out of Egypt. They're going to go to the promised land, right? And they're going to have to go to war there. So this is very important.
So do you think God remembers His covenant? Do you think God is preparing His people for entering into the promised land? And that's why He gave them so much people. Yeah, remember the promise He had made to Abraham? Right, Abraham, go outside your tent, look at the stars in the sky, count them, if you can, and what's He make a promise? That your descendants will be more numerous than these. Than the stars in the sky. Abraham only had one kid. And then you have Isaac, and Isaac has two. But then Isaac has Jacob, and Jacob has 12.
And now we're 400 years past that, and now we're talking about 603,000. Right? God's remembered His covenant. He's made into a whole bunch of nations. Oh, that's not only, and that's only counting the grown men, not the kids. Yeah, it's not including the kids, it's not including the women, it's not including the old men who can't go to war anymore. Yeah, the people who can go to war, right? So, it's very interesting that God keeps His covenant. Do you think God keeps His covenant with us? Oh yeah, the same way that God remembered His promises to Abraham and He was making it good. Is He able to make it good for us?
Absolutely. Okay, let's go ahead and pray. It's been a long one. God, we thank you so much that your promises are true. We thank you so much that we can have faith in you. We pray that we would trust you and trust your promises like our father Abraham. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. May God bless you. May you know that he counts all of his people. He knows who's in the book of life. And I pray that you might know that your name is written there if you have faith in him.
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