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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Numbers Chapter 26 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Numbers Chapter 26 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. Take the sum of all the congregation--The design of this new census, after a lapse of thirty-eight years, was primarily to establish the vast multiplication of the posterity of Abraham in spite of the severe judgments inflicted upon them; secondarily, it was to preserve the distinction of families and to make arrangements, preparatory to an entrance into the promised land, for the distribution of the country according to the relative population of the tribes.
Numbers Chapter 26 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. These are the families of the Reubenites--the principal households, which were subdivided into numerous smaller families. Reuben had suffered great diminution by Korah's conspiracy and other outbreaks
[Nu 16:1].
Numbers Chapter 26 10 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
10. the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah--rather, "the things of Korah." (See on
Nu 16:35;
compare
Ps 106:17).
Numbers Chapter 26 11 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
11. Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not--Either they were not parties to their father's crime, or they withdrew from it by timely repentance. His descendants became famous in the time of David, and are often mentioned in the Psalms
[Ps 42:1; 44:1; 45:1; 46:1; 47:1; 48:1; 49:1; 84:1; 85:1; 87:1; 88:1],
also in
1Ch 6:22, 38.
Numbers Chapter 26 12 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
12. The sons of Simeon--It is supposed that this tribe had been pre-eminent in the guilt of Baal-peor and had consequently been greatly reduced in numbers.
Thus God's justice and holiness, as well as His truth and faithfulness, were strikingly displayed: His justice and holiness in the sweeping judgments that reduced the ranks of some tribes; and His truth and faithfulness in the extraordinary increase of others so that the posterity of Israel continued a numerous people.
Numbers Chapter 26 53 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
53. the land shall be divided according to the number of names--The portion of each tribe was to be greater or less, according to its populousness.
Numbers Chapter 26 54 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
54. To many thou shalt give the more inheritance--that is, to the more numerous tribes a larger allotment shall be granted.
according to those that were numbered--the number of persons twenty years old at the time of the census being made, without taking into account either the increase of those who might have attained that age, when the land should be actually distributed, or the diminution from that amount, occasioned during the war of invasion.
Nu 26:1-51.
ISRAEL NUMBERED.
1. after the plague--That terrible visitation had swept away the remnant of the old generation, to whom God sware in His wrath that they should not enter Canaan
(Ps 95:11).