Number in Scripture, Part II — Spiritual Significance, Sixty-five — E. W. Bullinger

Library E. W. Bullinger Number in Scripture

Part II — Spiritual Significance

Sixty-five

being a multiple of thirteen (13x5=65), is specially associated with Ephraim (see Isa 7:8), and marks the apostasy of that Tribe. This apostasy, which began in Judg 17, afterwards extended to the Ten-Tribe kingdom, which is frequently spoken of therefore under the name of "Ephraim."

"Within three-score and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people."

E. W. Bullinger, Number in Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance, fourth edition revised (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1921). Public domain. Sectioned HTML transcription via Levend Water; bibliographic record and page scan of the 1894 edition from the Claremont School of Theology collection via Internet Archive.