Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The princes of the tribes, selected Numbers 1:4 under divine direction, were for the most part the same persons as those chosen a few months previously at the counsel of Jethro Exodus 18:21-26. Nahshon, prince of Judah, is mentioned in Exodus 6:23, and Elishama, in I Chronicles 7:26-27. The peers of men like these were no doubt entitled, among their fellows, to the epithet "renowned," Numbers 1:16.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 1:5:
Leviticus 4:22
Deuteronomy 32:1-42
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