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Numbers 10:36

And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cloud;   Intercession;   Israel;   Moses;   Tabernacle;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Cloud;   Numbers, the Book of;   Prayer;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Rest;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ark of God;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tabernacle;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dosetai;   Memra;   Names of God;   Small and Large Letters;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When it rested, he said, Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord , unto the many thousands of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
And when it rested he would say, "Return, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel."
New Century Version
And when the Ark was set down, Moses said, "Return, Lord , to the thousands of people of Israel."
New English Translation
And when it came to rest he would say, "Return, O Lord , to the many thousands of Israel!"
Amplified Bible
And when the ark rested, Moses said, "Return, O LORD, To the myriad (many) thousands of Israel."
New American Standard Bible
And when it came to rest, he said, "Return, LORD, To the myriad thousands of Israel."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when it rested, hee sayde, Returne, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
And when it came to rest, he said,"Return, O Yahweh,To the myriad thousands of Israel."
Contemporary English Version
And when they stopped to set up camp, he would pray, "Our Lord , stay close to Israel's thousands and thousands of people."
Complete Jewish Bible
When it stopped, he said, "Return, Adonai of the many, many thousands of Isra'el!"
Darby Translation
And when it rested, he said, Return, Jehovah, unto the myriads of the thousands of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
And when the Holy Box was put in its place, Moses always said, "Come back, Lord , to the millions of Israelites."
English Standard Version
And when it rested, he said, "Return, O Lord , to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."
George Lamsa Translation
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel.
Good News Translation
And whenever it stopped, he would say, "Return, Lord , to the thousands of families of Israel."
Christian Standard Bible®
When it came to rest, he would say:
Literal Translation
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads of the thousands of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan it rested, he sayde: Come agayne O LORDE vnto the multitude of the thousandes of Israel.
American Standard Version
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the arke rested, he sayde: Returne O Lord, vnto the many thousandes of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And when it rested, he said, Returne, O Lord, vnto the many thousands of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.
English Revised Version
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
And when it came to rest, he would say: "Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
forsothe whanne the arke was put doun, he seide, Lord, turne ayen to the multitude of the oost of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And in its resting he saith, `Return, O Jehovah, [to] the myriads, the thousands of Israel.'
Update Bible Version
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel.
World English Bible
When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
New King James Version
And when it rested, he said: "Return, O LORD, To the many thousands of Israel."
New Living Translation
And when the Ark was set down, he would say, "Return, O Lord , to the countless thousands of Israel!"
New Life Bible
And when it rested, he said, "Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel."
New Revised Standard
And whenever it came to rest, he would say, "Return, O Lord of the ten thousand thousands of Israel."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But when it rested, he said, - Return, O Yahweh! unto the myriads of the thousands of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When it came to rest, he said, "Return, O LORD, To the myriad thousands of Israel."

Contextual Overview

29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.' 30 And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.' 31 And he said: 'Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.' 33 And they set forward from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. 34 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: 'Rise up, O LORD, and let Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.' 36 And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O Lord: Psalms 90:13-17

many thousands of Israel: Heb. ten thousand thousands, Genesis 24:60, Deuteronomy 1:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:12 - ye shall Numbers 10:28 - according 1 Samuel 23:23 - the thousands 2 Chronicles 5:2 - the ark Psalms 20:5 - and in Psalms 24:7 - shall Psalms 132:8 - Arise Isaiah 63:17 - Return

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when it passed,.... The ark, and the cloud over it:

he said; Moses stood and prayed, as before, according to the above Targums, in the following manner:

return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel; who were six hundred thousand footmen, besides women and children, Numbers 11:21; the import of this petition is, that upon the resting of the ark God would take up his abode with them, grant them his presence, and manifest his love, grace, mercy, and goodness unto them; or, as it may be rendered, that he would "return the many thousands of Israel"; that is, to the land which he had sworn to their fathers, as Ben Gersom interprets it; and who observes that the word "return" is used, because of the holy fathers who dwelt in the land of Israel; or else, as the same writer further observes, the sense of the petition is, that it might be the will of God to turn the thousands of Israel into myriads, or increase and multiply them ten times more than they were; and so the Targum of Jerusalem is,

"bless the myriads, and multiply the thousands of the children of Israel.''

Perhaps Moses, under a spirit of prophecy, might have a further view, even to the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, when they shall return and seek the true Messiah, and be turned to him, and when all Israel shall be saved.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Each forward movement and each rest of the ark was made to bear a sacramental character. The one betokened the going forth of God against His enemies; the other, His gathering of His own people to Himself: the one was the pledge of victory, the other the earnest of repose.

Numbers 10:36 may be translated: “Restore” (i. e. to the land which their fathers sojourned in), “O Lord, the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.” (Compare Psalms 85:4, where the verb in the Hebrew is the same.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 10:36. Return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel. — These were the words spoken by Moses, at the moment the divisions halted in order to pitch their tents. In reference to this subject, and the history with which it is connected, the Psalms 68:0 seems to have been composed, though applied by David to the bringing the ark from Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem. See the notes on Psalms 68:0 Many thousands, literally the ten thousand thousands. Unless the ark went with them, and the cloud of the Divine glory with it, they could have neither direction nor safety; unless the ark rested with them, and the cloud of glory with it, they could have neither rest nor comfort. How necessary are the word of God and the Spirit of God for the direction, comfort, and defence of every genuine follower of Christ! Reader, pray to God that thou mayest have both with thee through all the wilderness, through all the changes and chances of this mortal life: if thou be guided by his counsel, thou shalt be at last received into his glory.


 
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