Num 31:50, 2Ch 24:6, Job 33:24, 36:18, Psa 49:7, Mat 20:28, Mar 10:45 | TSK | STEP | therefore brought.The officers of the army having mustered their men, found they had not lost a man in the contest with Midian! Penetrated with gratitude for this most remarkable interposition of Providence in their favour, they now offer to Jehovah the golden jewels which they had found among the spoil, to the amount of 16,750 shekels, equal to £37,869 16s. 5d. of our money. an oblation. gotten. Heb. found. an atonement.

Numbers 31:50

therefore brought.The officers of the army having mustered their men, found they had not lost a man in the contest with Midian! Penetrated with gratitude for this most remarkable interposition of Providence in their favour, they now offer to Jehovah the golden jewels which they had found among the spoil, to the amount of 16,750 shekels, equal to £37,869 16s. 5d. of our money.

an oblation.

Ps 107:15,21,22; 116:12,17

gotten. Heb. found. an atonement.

Ex 30:12,15,16; Le 17:11

2 Chronicles 24:6

Why hast thou.

2Sa 24:3

the collection.This was the poll-tax fixed by Moses, of half a shekel, which was levied on every man of twenty years old and upwards, as "a ransom for their souls, that there might be no plague among them."

Ex 30:12-16

tabernacle.

Nu 1:50; 17:7,8; 18:2; Ac 7:44