Numbers 26:55

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 censu...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

by . "upon": i.e. "contingently upon" (see Numbers 26:56 ). By Eleazar ( Numbers 34:17 ), because, as high priest, he had the Urim and Thummim, whi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. The land shall be divided...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot— As the land was to be divided among the tribes in proportion to their numbers, the question is,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. The land shall be...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The casting of lots is of the nature of an appeal to God, and was resorted to in order to detect a culprit ( Joshua 7:14 ; 1 Samuel 14:42 ; Jon 1:7...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(53-56) Unto these the land shall be divided... — The general apportionment of the land, as regarded the relative position of each tribe, was to be...
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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 prep...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe, how the LORD appoints the boundaries of his people's habitation. Yes! all our resting places, and all our movements, our tents in this life,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot ,.... That the division might appear to be according to the determination and will of God, and not...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By lot The quantity of land, it seems, was to be assigned according to the number in each tribe, but the situation was to be determined by lot, bot...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 en...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

52 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By lot; which lots seem to have been cast only for the tribes, not, as some would have it, for the several families, for the distribution of it to...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Land Was To Be Divided By Lot As An Inheritance ( Numbers 26:55-56 ). Dividing land by lots was an ancient practise in use in many civilisati...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 supp...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING ( Numbers 26:1-4 ). Numbers 26:1 It came to pass after the plague. This plague was the last event...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning the Divisions of the Land and the Levites
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

By lot — For the tribes, not for the several families; for the distribution of it to them was left to the rulers wisdom according to the rule now g...

⁵⁵ Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 26:55

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 26:55