And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
The verse records 62,700 as the number counted in Dan's host within the organized arrangement of Israel's camp. The weight of the testimony identifies the 62,700 as Danites, while one account places the same number as that counted in Naphtali's host within that organized arrangement. It belongs to the account of Israel's orderly organization in which each tribe had its assigned place under its own standard and camped and journeyed in appointed order.
It reflects the perfect organization and special order instituted for Israel in the days of Moses for their benefit, with every tribe bearing a standard with the sign of its father's house and commanded to pitch by its own standard. When Israel traveled the tribes marched in order each under its own standard, and when Israel rested the tabernacle was first erected and then the tribes pitched their tents in order in exactly the position commanded, around the tabernacle at a distance from it. The ordered arrangement displayed majesty and holiness and the purity required of those who serve, meant to show surrounding nations something of divine character and what is desired for the people.
The arrangement assigned each person a particular work, and faithful attention to those duties displayed order, harmony, and the high character of the work, showing surrounding nations that the Lord governed Israel. The camp's arrangement shows that the divine work is to be orderly and free from confusion, and its directions can be studied for practical guidance. God has not changed from being a God of order but is the same and as particular in the present dispensation as in the former, designing that lessons of order and organization be learned from the perfect order then instituted.
Together with Israel's travels, deliverance, rebellion, and punishment, that order stands as a faithful warning lest later believers follow the example of disobedience in murmuring, lusting, idolatry, fornication, and tempting God, and fall as those whose carcasses were strewn in the wilderness.
The verse records 62,700 as the number counted in Dan's host within the organized arrangement of Israel's camp. The weight of the testimony identifies the 62,700 as Danites, while one account places the same number as that counted in Naphtali's host within that organized arrangement. It belongs to the account of Israel's orderly organization in which each tribe had its assigned place under its own standard and camped and journeyed in appointed order.
It reflects the perfect organization and special order instituted for Israel in the days of Moses for their benefit, with every tribe bearing a standard with the sign of its father's house and commanded to pitch by its own standard. When Israel traveled the tribes marched in order each under its own standard, and when Israel rested the tabernacle was first erected and then the tribes pitched their tents in order in exactly the position commanded, around the tabernacle at a distance from it. The ordered arrangement displayed majesty and holiness and the purity required of those who serve, meant to show surrounding nations something of divine character and what is desired for the people.
The arrangement assigned each person a particular work, and faithful attention to those duties displayed order, harmony, and the high character of the work, showing surrounding nations that the Lord governed Israel. The camp's arrangement shows that the divine work is to be orderly and free from confusion, and its directions can be studied for practical guidance. God has not changed from being a God of order but is the same and as particular in the present dispensation as in the former, designing that lessons of order and organization be learned from the perfect order then instituted.
Together with Israel's travels, deliverance, rebellion, and punishment, that order stands as a faithful warning lest later believers follow the example of disobedience in murmuring, lusting, idolatry, fornication, and tempting God, and fall as those whose carcasses were strewn in the wilderness.