Numbers 26:51 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. ”

• Numbers 26:51 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This shows a decrease of 1,820 from the number at Sinai; a decrease due to the recent plague.

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• Numbers 26:51 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  These [were] the (f) numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. (f) This is the third time that they are numbered.

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• Numbers 26:51 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  The total number, accomplishing the command, Numbers 26:2 . six hundred, &c. . 601,730. In. Num 2:32603. Num 2:550, total decrease 1,820. In Egypt they increased like fishes, Exodus 1:7 , now...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  51. These are the numbered of the children of Israel. By this sum total, what I have above adverted to is more clearly shewn, that amidst so many losses, and especially after the terrible ve...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousa...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Six hundred thousand, &c.— Thus, notwithstanding the accidents that befel them in the desart, and the plagues justly inflicted upon the preceding generation, the Israelites, upon a balance of i...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. These were the numbered of the children of Israel. The persons named were head...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. — The sum total exhibits a decrease of 1,820, as compared with the census taken at Sinai thirty-eight years previously. On this decreas...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 f...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred , &c. Very nigh as many as they were before, Numbers 1:46 . So wisely and marvellously did God at the same time manifest his justice in cutting...

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• Numbers 26:51 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Very nigh as many as there were before, Numbers 1:46 . So wisely and marvellously did God at the same time manifest his justice in cutting off so vast a number, and his mercy in giving such a spee...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Numbers 26:42-43 ‘These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. All the families of the Shuhamites, a...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 26:51 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Muster of the Host

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• Numbers 26:51 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Nehemiah 9:23 ; Numbers 1:46 ; Numbers 2:32 ; Psalms 77:20

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• Numbers 26:51 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  These were the numbered — Very nigh as many as there were before, Numbers 1:46 . So wisely and marvellously did God at the same time manifest his justice in cutting off so vast a number; his mercy...

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