Wesley's Notes on the Bible 513Introduction to Numbers

THIS book is thus entitled, because of the numbers of the children of Israel, so often mentioned therein, an eminent accomplishment of God's promise to Abraham, that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude. It also relates two numberings of them, one at Mount Sinai, chap. 1. the other, thirty-nine years after. And there are not three men of the same in the last account that were in the first. The book is almost equally divided, between histories and laws intermixed. An abstract of much of this book we have in a few words, Psalm xcv, 10 . Forty years long was I grieved with this generation: and an application of it to ourselves, Heb. iv, 1 . Let us fear lest we come short!