Numbers 36:11

It is certain whether brothers or sons be taken strictly and properly, or more large, as those words are oft used in Scripture.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 36:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Numbers 28:6-11 which permitted the daughters of an Israelite dying without male issue to i...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Heiresses Required to Marry within their own Tribe. This law supplements the enactment in Numbers 27:1-11 , which allowed daughters to inherit the...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: Mahlah, Tirza, et...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. Moses c...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Law Regarding Heiresses According to Numbers 27:1-11 it was decided that, if a man left no sons, his daughters might inherit his property. B...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons. — Better, unto the sons of their near kinsmen. The word dod generally denotes an uncle on th...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE CITIES OF REFUGE Numbers 35:1-34 ; Numbers 36:1-13 1. THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES The order relating to the Levitical cities may be...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The question of the inheritance of women, which had already occurred through the application of the daughters of Zelophehad, came up once more, raise...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Although in every point of view, politically and nationally considered, this law seems good, yet certainly it had a much higher significance, in the...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah ,.... The names of the daughters of Zelophehad, and the same as in Numbers 26:33 , only the o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: Ver. 11. For M...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MARRIAGE OF FEMALE HEIRS (vs.1-13) The daughters of Zelophehad had before been assured of inheriting the possession of their father who had died....
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the L ORD , saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Faithfulness of the Daughters of Zelophehad ( Numbers 36:5-12 ). Analysis. a The women are to marry whom they think fit but within the famil...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE LAW FOR THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES ( Numbers 36:1-12 ) Let us notice— I. The case stated. “And the chief fathers of the families of the ch...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 36:8 . Every daughter that possesseth an inheritance, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father. An heiress was oblige...
The Biblical Illustrator

Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. The law for the marriage of heiresses...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES ( Numbers 36:1-4 ). Numbers 36:1 The chief fathers. The same phrase is more correctly trans...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Regulation
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zeiophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons, to their cousins,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 27:1

¹¹ For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

Related Commentaries of Numbers 36:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 36:11