Numbers 26:53 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. ”

• Numbers 26:53 - 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 26:53 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  53. Unto these the land shall be divided. This must have had great influence towards encouraging believers, when they gave in their names before God, and professed that they were heirs of th...

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• Numbers 26:53 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

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• Numbers 26:53 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. The land shall be divided ... according to the number of names. The portion of each tribe was to be g...

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• Numbers 26:53 - 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 26:53 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (53-56) Unto these the land shall be divided... — The general apportionment of the land, as regarded the relative position of each tribe, was to be decided by lot, which was commonly looked upon as...

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• Numbers 26:53 - 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 26:53 - 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 26:53 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe, how the LORD appoints the boundaries of his people's habitation. Yes! all our resting places, and all our movements, our tents in this life, and our mansions of glory in another, are all gra...

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• Numbers 26:53 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 26:53 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The land shall be divided The land was divided into nine parts and a half, respect being had in such division to the goodness as well as to the largeness of the several portions, and the lot gave e...

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• Numbers 26:53 - 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 26:53 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        52 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,   53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.   54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, a...

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• Numbers 26:53 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Unto these; to these families now mentioned. The land shall be divided, by lot, Numbers 26:55 . The land was divided into nine parts and a half, respect being had in such division to the goodn...

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• Numbers 26:53 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Land To Be Divided Up Between Them Tribes As An Inheritance According To Their Number Depending On Whether More or Fewer ( Numbers 26:52-54 ). Having numbered the men for war, the encouragemen...

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• Numbers 26:53 - 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 26:53 - 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 26:53 - 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 26:53 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning the Divisions of the Land and the Levites

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• Numbers 26:53 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 7:27 ; Ezekiel 47:22 ; Genesis 12:2 ; Genesis 12:7 ; Joshua 11:23 ; Joshua 14:1 ; Matthew 5:5 ; Psalms 105:44 ; Psalms 49:14 ; Revelation 21:27 ; Revelation 5:10

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• Numbers 26:53 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The land shall be divided — The land was divided into nine parts and an half, respect being had in such division to the goodness as well as to the largeness of the several portions, and the lot gav...

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