George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 26:4
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.
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.
3. THE SECOND NUMBERING CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 26:1)_ 2. The census taken (Numbers 26:5) 3. The total number (Numbers 26:51) 4. The inheritance ...
NUMBERS 26. PARTICULARS OF A SECOND CENSUS TAKEN 38 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST. Numbers 26:1. The Numbers of the Twelve Secular Tribes. The census was again confined to men over twenty. The total is Numbe...
TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE. This correctly supplies the Ellipsis from Numbers 26:2. See Figure of speech _Ellipsis,_ App-6. AS. according to what....
Moses and Eleazar are commanded by God to number the fighting men of 20 years of age and upwards....
_Take the sum of the people_ This is added conjecturally in E.VV. [Note:.VV. The English Versions, i.e. Authorised and Revised.], the opening words of the verse having been lost....
TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE— Though these words are not in the original, they are plainly to be understood. Houbigant supplies them from the second verse. We have many examples of such omissions; see c...
D. THE SECOND CENSUS (NUMBERS 26:1-51) TEXT Numbers 26:1. And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2. Take the sum of...
_TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD; AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WENT FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ From twenty years old and upward; as...
26:4 Moses (b-12) Or 'commanded Moses. The children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt were: Reuben.'...
THE SECOND NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE The first took place thirty-eight years before (see Numbers 1) at Mt. Sinai. The people are shortly to enter Canaan, and this second enumeration is made in view of t...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 THE SECOND *CENSUS – NUMBERS 26:1-65 V1 After the disease had stopped, the *LORD spoke to Moses and Elea
TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE... — The verses may be rendered thus: _From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt_ w...
מִ בֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָ מָ֑עְלָה כַּ
A NEW GENERATION Numbers 26:1; Numbers 27:1 THE numbering at Sinai before the sojourn in the Desert of Paran has its counterpart in the numbering now recorded. In either case those reckoned are the m...
51-65, THE CENSUS OF THE NATION Numbers 26:1 The terrible visitation of the preceding chapter swept away the survivors of the old generation. See Psalms 95:11. This new census was very important, par...
At this point we begin the third and last movement in the Book of Numbers, that which is devoted to the second numbering of the people and their preparation for taking possession of the land from whic...
Eleazar is joined in commission with Moses in the service; and the method of enumerating them is, as was before appointed, on their coming forth from Egypt at Mount Sinai. Numbers 1:1....
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, 28, AND 29. The journey being now ended, God numbers afresh His people, and counts them by name, as heirs ready to take possession of the inheritance....
[TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE], FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD,.... At the same age at which the sum was taken before, Numbers 1:3 so that there could not be one that was more than sixty years of age,...
1 The summe of all Israel is taken in the plaines of Moab. 52 The law of diuiding among them the inheritance of the land. 57 The families and number of the Leuites. 63 None were left of them which...
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt. This is the heading or introduction to t...
THE MUSTER OF THE HOST...
A SECOND CENSUS OF ISRAEL (vs.1-50) As at the first of the wilderness journey a census of the nation was taken (ch.1:46), now as they near the end of that journey another census is required by God. A...
1-51 Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. We have here the families registered, as well as the tribes. The total was nearly the same as when numbered at mount Sinai. Notice is h...
TAKE THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE: these words are easily supplied and necessarily to be understood from NUMBERS 26:2....
This, though one of the longest Chapter s in our book, does not call for much in the way of remark or exposition. In it we have the record of the second numbering of the people, as they were about to...
Numbers 26:4 twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 above H4605 LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8765) Moses H4872 children...
MOSES AND ELEAZAR PASS ON THE COMMAND (NUMBERS 26:3). Numbers 26:3 ‘And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,' In strict obedience Mose...
CONTENTS: The new generation of Israel numbered. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eleazar, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God is faithful to His threatenings as well as to His promises. Millions may fall to the...
The genealogies here labour under the usual difficulties arising from variation of orthography, or from the omission of a name. The five or six names omitted here of those who went down into Egypt, ar...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 26:1__ The first census (ch. Numbers 1:1) established the number of fighting men in Israel. This second census establishes the size of each tribe, so that each may receive the
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 26:1. _The plague_. See Numbers 25:9. Numbers 26:4. _Take the sum of the people_. These words are supplied in the A. V. to fill up an ellipsis; and it seems to...
EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING (Numbers 26:1). NUMBERS 26:1 IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE PLAGUE. This plague was the last event which seriously diminished the numbers of the Israelites; perhaps it was...
Now in chapter twenty-six we again have the tribes numbered off. Now remember this is at the end of the forty years of wandering. At the beginning of the forty years of wandering they numbered the tri...
1 Chronicles 21:1; Numbers 1:1...