Numbers 26:1
AFTER THE PLAGUE. Compare Numbers 25:9. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THE PLAGUE. Compare Numbers 25:9. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE THE SUM. For the order of the tribes see App-45. Moses received them by number, Exodus 38:26. so now, when preparing to die, he delivers them over by number. This was the third numbering. CHILDREN. sons. THEIR FATHERS' HOUSE: i.e. the families. These shown here to be fortyseven. In Genesis 46... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
REUBEN. Compare Genesis 46:8; Exodus 6:14. The order is the same as in Numbers 1:20, except that Ephraim and Manasseh are reversed. See App-45. FAMILY. See note on "house", Numbers 26:2, and throughout the chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF HEZRON. To Hezron [pertained], and so throughout. Compare verses: Numbers 26:12; Numbers 26:13; Numbers 26:15; Numbers 12:16, Num 12:17, Num 12:20, Num 12:21, Num 12:23, Num 12:24, Num 12:26, Num 12:28, Num 12:29, Num 12:30, Num 12:31-32.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORTY AND THREE, &C.. 43,730 In. Num 1:2146. Num 1:500, decrease of 2,770. This is an undesigned evidence of accuracy: an uninspired writer would have made an increase.... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS.. special reading of MS. called _Sevir_ reads "son". See App-34.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WERE FAMOUS, &C. Hebrew "the called of the congregation". No Ellipsis. STROVE. struggled. Hebrew. _nazah._ Compare Exodus 2:13. Lev 24:10. 2 Samuel 14:6. Compare Numbers 16:2; Numbers 16:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE EARTH. This tenth verse is _a Parenthesis._ See App-6. SIGN: i.e.. warning.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF KORAH DIED NOT. Compare Numbers 16:32; Numbers 16:35. They were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph (Exodus 6:24). Their descendants were prominent in the Temple-worship (1 Chronicles 6:22). Of them came Samuel (compare 1 Chronicles 6:33; 1 Chronicles 6:4 with 1 Samuel 1:20) and Heman (comp... [ Continue Reading ]
OF. This word is not needed. OF TOLA. Should be "to Tola [pertained]", as in Numbers 26:6. The word "to" or "unto" is read in some codices with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint.... [ Continue Reading ]
Manasseh comes before Ephraim here, because the tribe had increased. In Numbers 2:18; Numbers 2:20 Ephraim comes first, because he was the standard-bearer, and because of the blessing (Genesis 48:14).... [ Continue Reading ]
JEEZER. In Joshua 17:2, Abiezer. Only this tribe, and Judah (Numbers 26:21) had great-grandsons as "heads". Compare Genesis 50:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Now. DAUGHTERS. Compare Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:1. and Joshua 17:3; Joshua 17:4. Their names are written Mahlah, Noah, Hoglab, Milcah (some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Milcah"), and Tirzah.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Septuagint, omit "And".... [ Continue Reading ]
OF ARD. Ellipsis should be supplied thus: "[to Ard] pertiained".... [ Continue Reading ]
FORTY AND FIVE, &C.. 45,600. In. Num 2:2335. Num 2:400, increase 10,200.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREESCORE AND FOUR, &C.. 64,400. In. Num 2:2662. Num 2:700. Decrease. 1,700.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTY AND THREE, &C.. 63,400. In Num 2:28-41. Num 2:500, increase 11,900.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORTY AND FIVE, &C.. 45,400. In Num 2:30-53. Num 2:400, decrease 8,000.... [ Continue Reading ]
The total number, accomplishing the command, Numbers 26:2. SIX HUNDRED, &C.. 601,730. In. Num 2:32603. Num 2:550, total decrease 1,820. In Egypt they increased like fishes, Exodus 1:7, now they decrease. Compare Psalms 78:17. Seven tribes increased (Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, Benjamin, Da... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY. the greater number. FEW. the smaller number.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY. "upon": i.e. "contingently upon" (see Numbers 26:56). By Eleazar (Numbers 34:17), because, as high priest, he had the Urim and Thummim, which were the lots cast. The high priest must be present for the lot to speak, and give Jehovah's decision (Joshua 17:4). Compare Ezra 2:61.Nehemiah 7:63. The... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LOT. Hebrew "the mouth of the lot", as though the "lot" spoke and was personified, by the Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
JOCHEBED. Compare Exodus 2:1 with Exodus 6:20. BARE TO LEVI IN EGYPT. This explains apparent discrepancy between her age and that of Amram. See App-60.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. Forty years before. Compare Ch. Numbers 14:28. SHALL SURELY DIE. Hebrew "a dying they will die". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). See note on Genesis 2:17; Genesis 26:28. SAVE CALEB, &C. Compare Numbers 14:24; Numbers 14:30; Numbers 14:38. The whole congregation therefore composed of m... [ Continue Reading ]