Numbers 36:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

These are the commandments and the judgments— By commandments, we understand the precepts relating to the worship of God delivered in Chapter s xxviii, xxix, 30: By the judgments, the civil ordinances, or the laws of civil policy, respecting the division of the land, inheritances, and the cities of refuge; see ch. Numbers 27:11 Numbers 35:29. Both the one and the other, which begin at ch. Numbers 26:13 are mixed with divers orders which God gave to Moses for the numbering of the people, for the punishment of the Midianites, and for writing the journal of the Israelites in the wilderness. By this example and observation of the law for inheritances in the Holy Land, says Dr. Beaumont, the people of God are taught to hold fast their inheritance in his promises, and that right in Christ which they enjoy by faith; that as the Father hath made them meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, (Colossians 1:12.) so they may keep the faith and grace, which they have obtained, unto the end. 1 Kings 21:3.Ezekiel 46:18. Jude 1:3.Hebrews 6:12.