Numbers 7

Numbers 7:1-89

Numbers 7:1-893. The Necessities for the Journey Met (Numbers 7-10) (a) The Offerings of the Princes (Numbers 7:1-89) Numbers 7:1-89 Contains Eighty-nine Verses and is the Longest Chapter in the Bible. Strange to say, it deals with the subject of giving. It is an inspired list of subscribers with a minute record of each gift. There is a difference between the giving portrayed here and that which took place in connection with furnishing of material for the Tabernacle (Exodus 25:1-40). In connection with the Tabernacle everyone gave something, although the gifts differed. No gift was counted too small. In this chapter all the gifts are large and the same because the givers are all princes or leaders. There are times and occasions for both kinds of giving. “ According as God hath prospered us,” is to be the measure of our gifts. The value of our gifts is known to God, and no gift, however small, though it be but a cup of cold water, shall lose its reward (cf.

Mark 12:41-44; Matthew 10:42; Mark 9:41). One sometimes wonders if the gifts are enumerated here for the purpose of encouraging others to give. There is a sense in which it is true that we ought not to let our right hand know what our left hand doeth, but we should not forget that it is our obligation to let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works (Matthew 5:16; cf. 2 Corinthians 9:13).