Numbers 10:36 Whenever it came to rest, he said, "Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."

◄ Numbers 10:36 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Whenever it came to rest, he said, "Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."

English Standard Version
And when it rested, he said, “Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”

New American Standard Bible
When it came to rest, he said, "Return, O LORD, To the myriad thousands of Israel."

King James Bible
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When it came to rest, he would say: Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.

International Standard Version
Whenever the ark was being readied to rest, he would say: "Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."

American Standard Version
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.

Darby Bible Translation
And when it rested, he said, Return, Jehovah, unto the myriads of the thousands of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And in its resting he saith, 'Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads, the thousands of Israel.'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:33-36 Their going out and coming in, gives an example to us to begin and end every day's journey and every day's work with prayer. Here is Moses's prayer when the ark set forward, Rise up, and let thine enemies be scattered. There are those in the world who are enemies to God and haters of him; secret and open enemies; enemies to his truths, his laws, his ordinances, his people. But for the scattering and defeating of God's enemies, there needs no more than God's arising. Observe also the prayer of Moses when the ark rested, that God would cause his people to rest. The welfare and happiness of the Israel of God, consist in the continual presence of God among them. Their safety is not in their numbers, but in the favour of God, and his gracious return to them, and resting with them. Upon this account, Happy art thou, O Israel! who is like unto thee, O people! God will go before them, to find them resting-places by the way. His promise is, and their prayers are, that he will never leave them nor forsake them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

35, 36. when the ark set forward that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered—Moses, as the organ of the people, uttered an appropriate prayer both at the commencement and the end of each journey. Thus all the journeys were sanctified by devotion; and so should our prayer be, "If thy presence go not with us, carry us not hence" [Ex 33:15].