John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 10:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies, etc.] Next proceeded the standard of Reuben, having under it the tribes of Simeon and Gad, (<041019>Numbers 10:19,20); as “Reuben” signifies, “behold the son”, and he had the tabernacle borne before him and the holy things behind him, which way soever this camp looked, it had in view what was a type of Christ the Son of God, the object of faith, the ark. and over his host [was] Elizur the son of Shedeur; over which respective armies were the same captains as in (<040210>Numbers 2:10,12,14);

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