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Numbers 26:42

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Ver. 42,43. These are the sons of Dan, after their families,.... Though he had but one son, the plural being put for the singular; or by sons are meant his posterity; his son's name was Shuham, and by transposition Hushim, in Genesis 46:23 from him was the family of the Shulamite; and yet, though but one, consisted of 64,400 men; there was an...

Numbers 26:44

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Ver. 44-47. Of the children of Asher, after their families,.... This tribe was numbered next to Dan, because it was under his standard; one of his sons is omitted, very probably dying childless, and so had no family; from the rest sprang the families of the Iimnite, Jesuite, and Benite; and, from the latter, two others, the Heberite and...

Numbers 26:48

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Ver. 48-50. Of the sons of Naphtali, after their families,.... This tribe, which is the last of them, was numbered next to Asher, because it was with that under the standard of Dan; it had four families in it, the Jahzeelite, Gunite, Jezerite, and Shillemite, and its number was 45,400, being less by 8000 than it was when first numbered.

Numbers 26:51

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

These were the numbered of the children of Israel,.... The twelve tribes, consisting of so many families, as above named; and the sum total of persons in them of twenty years old and upwards, and fit for war, was six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and thirty; so that though all those that were numbered thirty years ago were now dead,...

Numbers 26:53

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance,.... That were numbered, and to none else: according to the number of their names; and for this end was the number of them now taken, that the land might be equally divided among them; women and minors, or such as were under twenty years of age, had no share in it; and even only those who...

Numbers 26:54

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance,.... To a tribe more numerous, and consisting of more and larger families, a greater part of the land was to be given to them to possess; and to a smaller tribe, and of the fewer families and persons in them, a lesser share of it: this direction is given...

Numbers 26:55

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot,.... That the division might appear to be according to the determination and will of God, and not left to the judgment and discretion of the chief magistrate, though bound by the above rule: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit; that is, according as to...

Numbers 26:56

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided,.... It was by the determination of the lot that the land was divided by inheritance, and that was by the Lord, according to Proverbs 16:33 between many and few; it was so ordered of the Lord by the lot, that the many should have a larger share, and the few a lesser.

Numbers 26:57

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Ver. 57-62. And these are they that were numbered of the Levites, after their families,.... And they were numbered not with the rest of the tribes of Israel, but by themselves, as they were at the first numbering of the tribes; the three principal families of which were, the Gershonite, the Kohathite, and Merarite, so called from the three sons of...

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