“ And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. ”
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...
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. No JFB commentary on...
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...
The Reader should take notice in this place that the tribe of Levi is not numbered with the general return of the other tribes of Israel, because these Levites peculiarly belonged to the LORD. See N...
Numbers 26:57
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...
57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of th...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Numbering Of The Levites For Their Service ( Numbers 26:57-62 ). Once again it is significant that the Levites are numbered in ‘round thousands'. They operated through their three sub-tribes,...
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...
Numbers 26:61 The reason why Nadab and Abihu were selected for instant punishment was not necessarily that they had committed a sin more atrocious in itself than that at the same time perpetrated...
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...
Concerning the Divisions of the Land and the Levites
1 Chronicles 24:1 ; 1 Chronicles 24:2 ; Leviticus 10:1 ; Leviticus 10:2 ; Numbers 3:4