Thou shalt surely give them... — The pronoun them is in the masculine gender in the Hebrew. Either the reference must be to the sons of Zelophehad’s daughters, or the daughters must be regarded in the light of sons.
Verse Numbers 27:7. _THOU SHALT SURELY GIVE THEM-AN INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR_ _FATHER'S BRETHREN_] There is a curious anomaly here in the Hebrew text which cannot be seen in our translation. In Hebrew...
4. THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD, THE DEATH OF MOSES AND HIS SUCCESSOR ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 27 _ 1. The daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1)_ 2. Moses' death announced and his request (Numbers 27:12)...
THE RIGHT OF DAUGHTERS TO INHERIT, IN DEFAULT OF MALE ISSUE. To guard against the alienation of property from a family through the absence of male heirs by natural descent, the system of the Levirate...
SHALT SURELY GIVE. Hebrew "a giving thou shalt give". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis. See note on Genesis 26:28. This command obeyed in Joshua 17:4....
_A law on the inheritance of property_. The Hebrews always adhered firmly to the principle that landed property must not be alienated from the tribe or family to which it belonged. In early days, inhe...
THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD SPEAK RIGHT— God, approving their petition, passes their special case into a general law hereafter to be observed. These daughters of Zelophehad were to enjoy what would ha...
G. THE PLEA OF ZELOPHEHAD'S DAUGHTERS, AND GOD'S ANSWER (NUMBERS 27:1-11) TEXT Numbers 27:1. Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of...
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE LAW OF THE INHERITANCE OF DAUGHTERS. JOSHUA APPOINTED AS THE SUCCESS OR OF MOSES 1-11. According to Numbers 26:53 (Cp. Numbers 27:2) the land was to be apportioned to the males. Zelophehad, of the...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 27 ZELOPHEHAD’S DAUGHTERS – NUMBERS 27:1-11 V1 Zelophehad’s daughters belonged to Manasseh’s *tribe. Zeloph
כֵּ֗ן בְּנֹ֣ות צְלָפְחָד֮ דֹּבְרֹת֒ נָתֹ֨ן תִּתֵּ֤ן...
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...
JOSHUA APPOINTED MOSES' SUCCESSOR Numbers 27:1 Up to the last Moses was faithful as a servant to Him that had appointed him in all his house, Hebrews 3:2. Notice that he did not attempt to legislate...
An interesting historic incident is here recorded during the wilderness wanderings. One Zelophehad had died, leaving no sons but five daughters. These now petitioned that they might have an inheritanc...
What a gracious interposition of the LORD, in the case of Zelophehad's daughters; and what a merciful determination! But, Reader! connect with it what was remarked before, of these five sisters being...
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....
THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD SPEAK RIGHT,.... What is just and reasonable: THOU SHALT SURELY GIVE THEM A POSSESSION OF AN INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR FATHER'S BRETHREN; their uncles, or rather the childre...
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto the...
_Cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them_ They were to enjoy what would have fallen to their father's share, had he been alive; because they stood in his place, and represented his per...
1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance. 6 The law of inheritances. 12 Moses beeing told of his death, sueth for a successour. 18 Ioshua is appointed to succeed him. [ZELOPHEHAD.] 1 T...
The daughters of Zeiophehad speak right, the justice of their plea was recognized by the Lord; THOU SHALL SURELY GIVE THEM A POSSESSION OF AN INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR FATHER'S BRETHREN; AND THOU SHALT...
The Grievance of the Daughters of Zelophehad Adjusted....
LAWS OF INHERITANCE (vs.1-11) This section is an appendix to chapter 26, for it bears directly on the question of the inheritance of the tribes. Five daughters of one man who had died in the wilderne...
1-11 The five daughters of Zelophehad considered themselves as left destitute, having neither father nor brother to inherit any land. Their believing expectation that the word of the Lord would be pe...
GIVE THEM: in Hebrew it is of the masculine gender, to show that women in this case should enjoy the man's privilege, and that the heavenly Canaan, whereof this was a type, did belong no less to women...
The conduct of the daughters of Zelophehad, as recorded in the opening section of this chapter, presents a striking and beautiful contrast to the unbelief on which we have just been commenting. They,...
Numbers 27:7 daughters H1323 Zelophehad H6765 speak H1696 (H8802) right H3651 surely H5414 (H8800) give H5414 ...
YAHWEH ACKNOWLEDGES THE RIGHTNESS OF THEIR CASE. THE DAUGHTERS ARE TO RECEIVE THEIR INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR BROTHERS (NUMBERS 27:6). Numbers 27:6 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “The daughters of...
CONTENTS: The law of inheritance. Joshua appointed Moses' successor. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eleazar, daughters of Zehophehad, Joshua. CONCLUSION: The minister of Christ should concern himself in hi...
Numbers 27:3. _Our father died in the wilderness._ These five daughters of Zelophehad allow that their father would not only have forfeited life but estate also, had he joined himself to the company o...
_The daughters of Zelophehad._ WOMEN’S RIGHTS--A PARABLE I want to use this incident for a twofold purpose. I. In respect to its general teaching. 1. I would exhibit for your imitation the faith w...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 27:1__ Chapters Numbers 27:1 address laws for the land, particularly the inheritance rules and the celebration of festivals....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES The request made by the daughters of Zelophehad arose naturally out of the census, which was taken with a view to the distribution of the land amongst the people, and t...
EXPOSITION THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD (Numbers 27:1). NUMBERS 27:1 THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD. The genealogy here given agrees with those in...
Chapter twenty-seven, we have the beginning of a woman's lib organization. Then there came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher (Numbers 27:1), Now what had happened is that the dad had sev...
Galatians 3:28; Jeremiah 49:11; Numbers 36:1; Numbers 36:2; Psalms 68:5