“ And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. ”
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...
sons. . special reading of MS. called Sevir reads "son". See App-34.
8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. The curtailment which had occurred in the superior line is here introduced, either in exaltation of God’s grace, because, notwithstanding so great a loss, the...
And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
And the sons of Pallu ,.... Or son, the plural for the singular, Pallu having but one son, whose name was Eliab, the father of Dathan and Abiram; Numbers 26:9 .
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...
Sons for son, of which change of the number see Genesis 12:7 Genesis 46:7
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
Numbers 26:8