Numbers 26:1
_Shed. Hebrew and Septuagint, "after the plague," which destroyed so many. (Chaldean) After all who had murmured were cut off, the new progeny is numbered. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shed. Hebrew and Septuagint, "after the plague," which destroyed so many. (Chaldean) After all who had murmured were cut off, the new progeny is numbered. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Number. This was done that the general might know what forces he could muster to attack the nations of Chanaan on the west side of the Jordan, and also in order that the lands might be properly distributed. The war lasted seven years, and the distribution of lands was not completed till some time af... [ Continue Reading ]
_Them. Hebrew, "commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt." The same plan was now to be pursued as formerly._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thirty. They had lost therefore 2870 men, chap. i. 21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Princes. Hebrew, "men of name in the congregation," senators. (Vatable) (Chap. xvi. 2.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Miracle. Hebrew, "they became a sign," of reproach, and a memorial of God's just judgments, who caused the earth to swallow up Core and his companions alive, by a most disgraceful kind of death, to which the faithless vestal virgins were condemned at Rome, being buried alive; while those who had off... [ Continue Reading ]
_Namuel. N has been substituted for i, in the name of Iamuel, as it is read elsewhere, and in the Syriac, both here and 1 Paralipomenon iv. 24, where Ahod is by mistake written with r, instead of d. See also the Arabic. (Kennicott) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Families. Ahod is not mentioned, as he, probably, died without children. See Genesis xlvi. 10. (Menochius) --- Hundred. Their numbers were the most reduced. See chap. xxv. 9. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXVI.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hundred. Septuagint add, "4000." This tribe had formerly 45,650. It had lost 5100._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hundred. Juda had increased 1900._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Issachar had also 9900 more._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Zabulon was more numerous by 3100; so that this division had an additional strength of 13,100, while the former was diminished by 45,070 men. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Machir: 1 Paralipomenon vii. 20, we find Ezriel also mentioned. See chap. xxxi. 39._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jezer, who is called Abihezer, Josue xvii. 2, and Paralipomenon._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hundred. Manasses had increased his numbers by 20,500, while_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ephraim had lost 8000. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bela was the father of two families, ver. 40. The other five children of Benjamin probably left no issue, Genesis xlvi. 21. (Du Hamel)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Benjamin had 10,200 added to his former number. Hence this division of the army, though hurt by Ephraim, (ver. 37,) had an increase of 22,700._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Suhamites. Their father is called Huthim in Genesis, and also by the Septuagint. This branch of Dan was more numerous than formerly by 1700 soldiers._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Aser had an addition of 11,900; and, both together, 13,600. But they were let down by_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nephtali, who had lost 8000; so that this division had only 5600 more. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_A less. God introduced among his people that equality, which was so much desired by Lycurgus, Solon, &c. The fertility of the land assigned to Benjamin, compensated for the smallness of its quantity._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lot. Josue appointed commissioners, who measured the land, and divided it according to its fertility; and the portions assigned to each of the tribes by lot, corresponded with the predications of Jacob and of Moses; God so regulating the lots by his allwise Providence, in order that the people migh... [ Continue Reading ]
_Core. Three other families are mentioned, Exodus vi. 17, &c. They were not going out to war. (Du Hamel)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Levi. Septuagint, "who bore these ( Lobni, &c.) to Levi, in Egypt; and she bore to Amram, Aaron," &c., as if Jochabed had been wife both of Levi and of Amram, which is very improbable. It is more likely that the wives of these two bore the same name. The Hebrew may agree very well with the Vulgate.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sinai, if we except the Levites. (Menochius) See chap. xiv. 23. --- Origen (hom. 21.) makes a very good remark on this subject. This circumcised, but rebellious people, conducted by Moses into the desert, clearly points out the Hebrews, who come to the frontiers of the promised land, but are not su... [ Continue Reading ]