Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible
Numbers 26:57-62
57-62 Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua.
57-62 Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua.
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...
The census of the Levites. They were numbered separately from the secular tribes, because they were not, as a tribe, to possess any land....
THESE ARE THEY THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE LEVITES— For the same reasons for which the other tribes were registered, it was fit that this of Levi should be registered in like manner, under the three chi...
F. CENSUS OF THE LEVITES vv. 57-65 TEXT Numbers 26:57. And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of th...
_ACCORDING TO THE LOT SHALL THE POSSESSION THEREOF BE DIVIDED BETWEEN MANY AND FEW._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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
וְ אֵ֨לֶּה פְקוּדֵ֣י הַ לֵּוִי֮ לְ מִשְׁפְּחֹ
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...
The Reader should take notice in this place that the tribe of Levi is not numbered with the general return of the other tribes of Israel, because these Levites peculiarly belonged to the LORD. See Num...
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...
57._And these are they that were numbered of the Levites. _He treats separately of the tribe of Levi, which God had dissevered from the rest of the people; and of the sons of Levi, the last mentioned...
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....
Ver. 57-62. AND THESE ARE THEY THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE LEVITES, AFTER THEIR FAMILIES,.... And they were numbered not with the rest of the tribes of Israel, but by themselves, as they were at the fir...
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...
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites....
CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE LAND AND THE LEVITES...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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 26:57 numbered H6485 (H8803) Levites H3881 families H4940 Gershon H1648 family H4940 Gershonites H1649 Kohath...
THE NUMBERING OF THE LEVITES FOR THEIR SERVICE (NUMBERS 26:57). Once again it is significant that the Levites are numbered in ‘round thousands'. They operated through their three sub-tribes, and thei...
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 6:1; 1 Chronicles 6:16; Exodus 6:16; Genesis 46:11;...