Answer: 603,550 men.
(Numbers 1:46; cf. 1:49)
10 Bible Stumpers: How do you score?!
1. How many fighting-age men were counted in Israel’s first wilderness census (excluding Levites) to the nearest 100,000? 2. Name the three core abstentions of a Nazirite. Answer: No wine/grapes, no haircut, no contact with the dead. (Numbers 6:3–7) 3. What sign told Israel when to set out from a campsite? Answer: When the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle. (Numbers 9:17; cf. 9:22–23) 4. The two silver trumpets were made for what two main purposes? Answer: Calling the assembly and breaking camp. (Numbers 10:2) 5. Who criticized Moses because of his Cushite wife, and what happened? Answer: Miriam and Aaron; Miriam became leprous and was confined seven days. (Numbers 12:1, 10, 15) 6. How many spies gave a bad report, and who were the two faithful? Answer: Ten bad; Joshua and Caleb faithful. (Numbers 13:30–33; 14:6–10) 7. How long would Israel wander, and why that number? Answer: Forty years, a year for each of the forty days of spying. (Numbers 14:33–34) 8. What sign confirmed Aaron’s priesthood among the tribes? Answer: Aaron’s staff budded, blossomed, and produced almonds. (Numbers 17:8) 9. What did Moses do at Meribah that barred him from entering the land? Answer: He struck the rock and did not sanctify the LORD before the people. (Numbers 20:11–12) 10. What object did God use to heal those bitten by fiery serpents? Answer: A bronze serpent lifted on a pole. (Numbers 21:8–9) Bonus: Who hired Balaam to curse Israel? Answer: Balak, king of Moab. (Numbers 22:2–6) |
