Numbers 26:56 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. ”

• Numbers 26:56 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  According to the lot ... - This method was adopted not only in order to preclude jealousies and disputes, but also that the several tribes might regard the territories as determined for them by G...

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• Numbers 26:56 - 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 26:56 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the lot . Hebrew "the mouth of the lot", as though the "lot" spoke and was personified, by the Figure of speech Prosopopoeia (App-6).

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• Numbers 26:56 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

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• Numbers 26:56 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Numbers 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 1...

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• Numbers 26:56 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Between many and few The share that shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions as their numbers shall require.

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• Numbers 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. That share which shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions as their numbers shall require.

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• Numbers 26:56 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Land Was To Be Divided By Lot As An Inheritance ( Numbers 26:55-56 ). Dividing land by lots was an ancient practise in use in many civilisations. It was especially important in this case so t...

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• Numbers 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - 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 26:56 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning the Divisions of the Land and the Levites

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• Numbers 26:56 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:4 ; Romans 11:7

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• Numbers 26:56 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Many and few — That share, which shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions as their numbers shall require.

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