Numbers 27:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. ”

Numbers 27:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Right of Daughters to Inherit, in Default of Male Issue. To guard against the alienation of property from a family through the absence of male heirs by natural descent, the system of the Levira...
Numbers 27:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons.
Numbers 27:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. This question was the occasion of the delivery of a law, which was to be a perpetual and general rule as to the right of inheritance. But,...
Numbers 27:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Numbers 27:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right— God, approving their petition, passes their special case into a general law hereafter to be observed. These daughters of Zelophehad were to enjoy what would...
Numbers 27:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Numbers 27:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Law of the Inheritance of Daughters. Joshua appointed as the Success or of Moses 1-11. According to Numbers 26:53 (Cp. Numbers 27:2 ) the land was to be apportioned to the males. Zelophehad...
Numbers 27:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If a man die, and have no son... — On the general law of inheritance which is here laid down, see Selden’s De Successionibus, London, 1636, and Keil’s Archœol., 2, s. 142.
Numbers 27:8 - 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...
Numbers 27:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua Appointed Moses' Successor Numbers 27:1-23 Up to the last Moses was faithful as a servant to Him that had appointed him in all his house, Hebrews 3:2 . Notice that he did not attempt to...
Numbers 27:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

An interesting historic incident is here recorded during the wilderness wanderings. One Zelophehad had died, leaving no sons but five daughters. These now petitioned that they might have an inheritan...
Numbers 27:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a gracious interposition of the LORD, in the case of Zelophehad's daughters; and what a merciful determination! But, Reader! connect with it what was remarked before, of these five sisters being...
Numbers 27:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel ,.... The above affair occasioned a law to be made, in which all the people would have a concern, among whom such cases should happen, as after relat...
Numbers 27:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LAWS OF INHERITANCE (vs.1-11) This section is an appendix to chapter 26, for it bears directly on the question of the inheritance of the tribes. Five daughters of one man who had died in the wild...
Numbers 27:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Daughters of Zelophehad. B. C. 1452. 1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the so...
Numbers 27:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 27:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A General Case Is Then Made Of What Is To Happen When A Man Dies Having No Son ( Numbers 27:8-11 a). This solution would settle the concerns of many still living fathers who only had daughters. S...
Numbers 27:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES The request made by the daughters of Zelophehad arose naturally out of the census, which was taken with a view to the distribution of the land amongst the people, and...
Numbers 27:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 27:3 . Our father died in the wilderness. These five daughters of Zelophehad allow that their father would not only have forfeited life but estate also, had he joined himself to the compan...
Numbers 27:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

The daughters of Zelophehad. Women’s rights--a parable I want to use this incident for a twofold purpose. I. In respect to its general teaching. 1. I would exhibit for your imitation the...
Numbers 27:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD ( Numbers 27:1-4 ). Numbers 27:1 The daughters of Zelophehad. The genealogy here given agrees with those in Numbers 26:29-4 and in Joshu...
Numbers 27:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Grievance of the Daughters of Zelophehad Adjusted.
Numbers 27:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 27:8

Numbers 27:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 27:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 27:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 27:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 27:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 27:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 27:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 27:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 27:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 27:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 27:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 27:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 27:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge