Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Our father died ... not ... in the company of Korah. This declaration might be necessary, because his death might have occurred about the time of that rebellion; and especially because, as the children of these conspirators were involved along with themselves in the awful punishment, their plea appeared the more proper and forcible, that their father did not die for any cause that doomed his family to lose their lives or their inheritance.
Died in his own sin - i:e., by the common law of mortality, to which men, through sin, are subject, or, as Dathe interprets it, that sin which was common to all the Israelites, who in the space of forty years died in the wilderness on account of their unbelief.
And had no sons, х uwbaaniym (H1121) lo' (H3808) haayuw (H1961) low (H3807a)] - 'and no sons are to him.' Though he might have had sons, there were none now in the family to claim their share in the respective division of the promised land. Rosenmuller ('Scholia,' hoc leco) gives a very different turn to this verse, rendering it thus: 'Our father died in the wilderness, leaving no sons; nor was he among those who rebelled against the Lord with Korah, who died on account of his own sin.'