John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 2:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[Then] the tribe of Zebulun, etc.] He pitched next; though the order of their encampment was not, as it may seem, first Judah, after him Issachar, and below him Zebulun; for Judah lay between these two, the one before him, and the other behind him; and it was Issachar that was behind, and Zebulun before, as Aben Ezra observes; they were pitched on each side of the standard of Judah, one on one side, and the other on the other side: and Eliab, the son of Helon, [shall be], captain of the children of Zebulun; (see <040109>Numbers 1:9 7:24); each tribe had its own captain; nor does it appear that there was a general over those captains, that had the command of the camp, consisting of three tribes, but Moses was the generalissimo of all the camps.

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