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.
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...
MANY. the greater number. FEW. the smaller number....
The manner in which Canaan is to be divided among the tribes. The territories are to be proportionate to the size of the several tribes....
_thou shalt give the more inheritance_ Moses was not allowed to enter Canaan; if, therefore, -thou shalt give" is to be understood strictly, the allotment and distribution were to take place before hi...
TO EVERY ONE SHALL HIS INHERITANCE BE GIVEN— The tribes being thus registered and methodically distinguished, God informs Moses, that it was his will to make an equal division of the land of Canaan, w...
E. INSTRUCTIONS FOR LAND ALLOTMENT vv. 52-56 TEXT Numbers 26:52. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 53. Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 54...
_TO MANY THOU SHALT GIVE THE MORE INHERITANCE, AND TO FEW THOU SHALT GIVE THE LESS INHERITANCE: TO EVERY ONE SHALL HIS INHERITANCE BE GIVEN ACCORDING TO THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF HIM._ To many thou...
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
(53-56) UNTO THESE THE LAND SHALL BE DIVIDED... — The general apportionment of the land, as regarded the relative position of each tribe, was to be decided by lot, which was commonly looked upon as th...
לָ † רַ֗ב תַּרְבֶּה֙ נַחֲלָתֹ֔ו וְ לַ...
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...
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...
Observe, how the LORD appoints the boundaries of his people's habitation. Yes! all our resting places, and all our movements, our tents in this life, and our mansions of glory in another, are all grac...
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....
TO MANY THOU SHALT GIVE THE MORE INHERITANCE, AND TO FEW THOU SHALT GIVE THE LESS INHERITANCE,.... To a tribe more numerous, and consisting of more and larger families, a greater part of the land was...
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...
CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE LAND AND THE LEVITES...
To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance; to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him, this considerat...
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...
GIVE THE MORE INHERITANCE: _ Heb._ multiply his inheritance GIVE THE LESS INHERITANCE: _ Heb._ diminish his inheritance...
52-56 In distributing these tribes, the general rule of equity is prescribed; that to many should be given more, and to fewer less. Though it seems left to the prudence of their prince, the matter at...
THOU SHALT GIVE; thou, Moses, partly by thyself, for he divided the land beyond Jordan to the two tribes and a half; and partly by thy successor Joshua, whom thou shalt empower and command to do it. A...
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 26:54 large H7227 larger H7235 (H8686) inheritance H5159 small H4592 smaller H4591 (H8686) inheritance H5159
THE LAND TO BE DIVIDED UP BETWEEN THEM TRIBES AS AN INHERITANCE ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMBER DEPENDING ON WHETHER MORE OR FEWER (NUMBERS 26:52). Having numbered the men for war, the encouragement was no...
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...
Joshua 17:14; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:5; Numbers 33:54...