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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 19-22. And the sons of Judah were Er and Onan,.... And besides these he had Shelah, Pharez, and Zerah, from whom families sprang, but none from the two first: for Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; where they were born; and that because of their sins, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, see Genesis 38:7-10 so that there were but three...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:19]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:19]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:19]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 23-25. Of the sons of Issachar, after their families,.... This tribe was numbered next to Judah, because it was under his standard. Two of his sons are a little differently named than they are Genesis 46:13 instead of Phuvah one is called Pua, and instead of Job another is called here Jashub; this tribe consisted of four families, and the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:23]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:23]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 26,27. Of he sons of Zebulun, after their families,.... This is numbered next to Issachar, because it was encamped under the standard of Judah; it consisted of three families, whose numbers were 60,500, so that this tribe was increased 3100.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:26]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 28-34. The sons of Joseph, after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Manasseh is here mentioned first, though Ephraim was preferred to him by Jacob, and the standard belonged to him; not because he was the firstborn, but because he had now the greater increase, though he had but one son, Machir, of whom was the family of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 35-37. These are the sons of Ephrain, after their families,.... Which were but three, the Shuthalhite, the Bachrite, and the Tahanite, only from the former sprung another family, called the Eranite; the number of the whole was 32,500; there was a decrease in this tribe of 8000.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:35]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Numbers 26:35]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 38-41. The sons of Benjamin, after their families,.... This tribe was numbered next to Ephraim, being under his standard. Five of the sons of Benjamin are omitted, perhaps because they died without issue, and so no families sprang from them; the names of the five sons mentioned vary a little from the names of them in Genesis 46:21 instead of...