성경 주석서

And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

And these are the countries. — These that are expressed in this and the five following chapters.

Which Eleazar the priest. — Who was a type of Christ, by whom we have entrance into the heavenly Canaan, and the fourth from Levi; and so that prophecy was fulfilled, Genesis 15:16 .

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By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.

By lot was their inheritance. — To prevent all murmurings and discontents, since it was the Lord that cut them out their several conditions; who, as he is Lord of all, and may do with his own as he pleaseth, so he is the only wise God, who doth all things well -

“ Pondere, mensura, numero facit omnia. ”

See Proverbs 16:33 ; Proverbs 18:18 . See Trapp on " Proverbs 16:33 " See Trapp on " Proverbs 18:18 "

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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

But unto the Levites. — See Joshua 13:14 .

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For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

For the children of Joseph were two tribes. — And so both Joseph had a double portion, the privilege of the firstborn which Reuben had forefeited, 1 Chronicles 5:1 and the number of twelve tribes was made up, notwithstanding the Levites were not reckoned. The Papists, to make up the number of ten commandments, when they have cashiered the second, as making utterly against their image worship, divide the last into two; so loath are heretics to have their asses’ ears seen. But Paul, who knew better than any of them the analysis of the law, calleth that last "the commandment," not commandments. Romans 7:7

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As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

As the Lord commanded Moses. — To see that the Levites had their lands as well as other incomes, Numbers 35:2 and that no man else should challenge any propriety in them. Leviticus 25:32-34

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Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

Then the children of Judah, — i.e., The chief of them came, as advocates for Caleb, who was a man of great eminency in their tribe.

And Caleb the son of Jephunneh. — To distinguish him from Caleb the son of Hezron. 1 Chronicles 2:18

Thou knowest the thing. — What prerogative the Lord promised us for a reward of our constancy. God is a liberal paymaster, and sendeth no man away with cause to complain of a hard bargain.

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Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as [it was] in mine heart.

As it was in my heart. — Sincerely, and without dissimulation; he was all heart, or, as heart, so his name Caleb signifieth, Egregie cordatus homo. One of the disciples was called Lebbaemus, or hearty; and Hooper the martyr was called for like cause Hearty Hooper. His nephew Nabal was none such, but churlish and evil in his doings: yet he was of the house of Caleb, 1 Samuel 25:3 but as little like him as young Cicero was his worthy father; or as wise Socrates’s children, who took after the mother altogether, as Seneca testifieth.

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Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

But I wholly followed the Lord my God. — Heb., I fulfilled after the Lord. A metaphor taken from a ship under sail carried strongly with the wind, as if it feared neither rocks nor sands. Thus he commendeth himself, that none might tax him of injustice or ambition, for that which he was now about to require of Joshua.

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