Numbers 26:5-51

I detain not the Reader through this whole relation, but to remark to him, with what particular emphasis reference is again had to the sin of Dathan and Abiram. Surely the HOLY GHOST intended by it to teach the Church, that the surest way to keep alive in the soul the preciousness of the LORD JESUS, is to keep alive a sense of sin, from which alone his great salvation can deliver us. I only add another observation on all these verses, and that is to remark from the numbers altogether, that GOD'S threatenings were minutely fulfilled. The people were not increased during the forty years; for the numbers are nearly the same as when taken at mount Sinai. And the whole of that race which came out of Egypt, excepting those whom the LORD had promised to reserve, were dead. Compare Numbers 1:46, with the account here. I think it probable that Moses wrote the 90th Psalm upon this occasion. And what could be more suited to the purpose? See Psalms 90:1 throughout.