Requirements to go to war for Israel:
Numbers 1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Young Men from each of the 12 tribes:
Numbers 1:20 And the children of Reuben, …
Numbers 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, …
Numbers 1:24 Of the children of Gad, …
Numbers 1:26 Of the children of Judah, …
Numbers 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, …
Numbers 1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, …
Numbers 1:32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, …
Numbers 1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, …
Numbers 1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, …
Numbers 1:38 Of the children of Dan, …
Numbers 1:40 Of the children of Asher, …
Numbers 1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, …
Interestingly it does not match the order above. The twelve sons in the order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Numbers 1:45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Repeats: Moses reminds the people that God is leading them:
Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
Repeats: Young Men from each of the 12 tribes:
Numbers 26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Moses gets the people ready for war as the march onward to the promise land:
Numbers 31:3-7 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Numbers 31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
Numbers 31:27-28 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Numbers 31:32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers 31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers 31:42 And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Numbers 31:49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Numbers 31:53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Numbers 32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers 32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
Numbers 32:27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
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