CHAPTER XXVI _Moses and Eleazar are commanded to take the sum of the_ _Israelites, in the plains of Moab_, 1-4. Reuben _and his posterity_, 43,730, _ver_. 5-11. Simeon _and his posterity_, 22,200, _ver_. 12-14. Gad _and his posterity_, 40,500, _ver_. 15-18. Judah _and his posterity_, 76,500, _... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 26:2. _TAKE THE SUM OF ALL THE CONGREGATION_] After thirty-eight years God commands a _second census_ of the Israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction in families, and to regulate the tribes previously to their entry into the promised land, and to ascertain the proportion of l... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 26:10. _TOGETHER WITH KORAH_] The Samaritan text does not intimate that Korah was _swallowed up_, but that he was _burnt_, as appears in fact to have been the case. _And the earth swallowed_ _them up, what time that company died; and the fire devoured Korah_ _with the two hundred and f... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 26:11. _THE CHILDREN OF KORAH DIED NOT._] It is difficult to reconcile this place with Numbers 16:27; Numbers 16:31-4, where it seems to be intimated that not only the _men_, but the _wives_, and the _sons_, _and the little ones_ of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up by the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 26:51. _THESE WERE THE NUMBERED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL_, _six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty._] The following comparative statement will show how much some of the tribes had _increased_, and others had _diminished_, since the enumeration in Numbers 1:2, c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 26:55. _THE LAND SHALL BE DIVIDED BY LOT_] The word גורל _goral_, translated _lot_, is supposed by some to signify the _stone_ or _pebble_ formerly used for the purpose of what we term _casting_ _lots_. The word [Anglo-Saxon] _hlot_ is Anglo-Saxon, from [Anglo-Saxon] to _divide_, or _... [ Continue Reading ]