1 Corinthians 12:4; Romans 11:7
According to the lot ... - This method was adopted not only in order to preclude jealousies and disputes, but also that the several tribes might...
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...
the lot . Hebrew "the mouth of the lot", as though the "lot" spoke and was personified, by the Figure of speech Prosopopoeia (App-6).
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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,...
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided ,.... It was by the determination of the lot that the land was divided by inheritance,...
Between many and few The share that shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions a...
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...
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. ...
i.e. That share which shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions as their numbers...
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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING ( Numbers 26:1-4 ). Numbers 26:1 It came to pass after the plague. This plague was the last event...
Concerning the Divisions of the Land and the Levites
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. Thus the relative situation of each tribe's inheritance in Canaan...
Many and few — That share, which shall by lot fall to each tribe, shall be distributed to the several families and persons in such proportions as t...
56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.