The enrollment, being taken primarily for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds…

Seventy-four thousand six hundred.— The superiority of Judah in numbers over all the other tribes deserves notice in connection wi…

Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Judah, [were] seventy-four thousand and six hundred. 74,600 men.…

The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in so increasing the seed of Jacob, so that they might be better trained for the wars and conqu…