Numbers 1
Twelve times over we see here the phrase, "every man able to go to war." This implies first of all that women and children were not to go to war. It was the responsibility of the men older than twenty. But they were also able-bodied men. Just like every able-bodied man should have a job providing for himself and for any others for whom he extends his responsibility, so too, every able-bodied man should be ready to go to war to fight for his brothers, his sons, his daughters, his wife and his home (Nehemiah 4:14) The burden and privilege of fighting falls on masculine shoulders and if God has made you able to fight, He has also made it that you must.
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