“ Of Zerah,b the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. ”
Numbers 26. Particulars of a Second Census taken 38 Years after the First. Numbers 26:1-51 . The Numbers of the Twelve Secular Tribes. The census was again confined to men over twenty. The total...
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. Zerah - or Zohar ( Genesis 46:10 ; Exodus 6:15 ; 1 Chronicles 4:26 ) [Septuagint, Zara]. Shaul - another nam...
The Second Numbering of the People The first took place thirty-eight years before (see Numbers 1 ) at Mt. Sinai. The people are shortly to enter Canaan, and this second enumeration is made in vie...
A NEW GENERATION Numbers 26:1-65 ; Numbers 27:1-23 THE numbering at Sinai before the sojourn in the Desert of Paran has its counterpart in the numbering now recorded. In either case those reck...
At this point we begin the third and last movement in the Book of Numbers, that which is devoted to the second numbering of the people and their preparation for taking possession of the land from whi...
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 t...
Numbers 26:12
A SECOND CENSUS OF ISRAEL (vs.1-50) As at the first of the wilderness journey a census of the nation was taken (ch.1:46), now as they near the end of that journey another census is required by Go...
5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezr...
Zerah, called also Zohar , Genesis 46:10 Exodus 6:15 . There is another of his sons, Ohad , mentioned Genesis 46:10 , not here, possibly because his family was extinct before this time.
The Numbering of the Army in Their Tribes and Clans ( Numbers 26:5-51 ). The numbering was far more than a head count. It was a listing of the contingents to which the men belonged. Numbers 26...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 26:1 . The plague . See Numbers 25:9 . Numbers 26:4 . Take the sum of the people . These words are supplied in the A. V. to fill up an ellipsis; and it s...
The genealogies here labour under the usual difficulties arising from variation of orthography, or from the omission of a name. The five or six names omitted here of those who went down into Egypt, a...
EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING ( Numbers 26:1-4 ). Numbers 26:1 It came to pass after the plague. This plague was the last event which seriously diminished the numbers of the Isra...
The Muster of the Host
Genesis 46:10