1And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2"Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel." 3And Moses speaketh -- Eleazar the priest also -- with them, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying, 4"From a son of twenty years and upward," as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt. 5Reuben, first-born of Israel -- sons of Reuben: of Hanoch is the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite; 6of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Carmi the family of the Carmite. 7These are families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8And the son of Pallu is Eliab; 9and the sons of Eliab are Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram; this is that Dathan and Abiram, called ones of the company, who have striven against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, in their striving against Jehovah, 10and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them and Korah, in the death of the company, in the fire consuming the two hundred and fifty men, and they become a sign; 11and the sons of Korah died not. 12Sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel is the family of the Nemuelite; of Jamin the family of the Jaminite; of Jachin the family of the Jachinite; 13of Zerah the family of the Zarhite; of Shaul the family of the Shaulite. 14These are families of the Simeonite, two and twenty thousand and two hundred. 15Sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon is the family of the Zephonite; of Haggi the family of the Haggite; of Shuni the family of the Shunite; 16of Ozni the family of the Oznite; of Eri the family of the Erite: 17of Arod the family of the Arodite; of Areli the family of the Arelite. 18These are families of the sons of Gad, by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred. 19Sons of Judah are Er and Onan; and Er dieth -- Onan also -- in the land of Canaan. 20And sons of Judah, by their families, are: of Shelah the family of the Shelanite; of Pharez the family of the Pharzite; of Zerah the family of the Zarhite; 21and sons of Pharez are: of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Hamul the family of the Hamulite. 22These are families of Judah, by their numbered ones, six and seventy thousand and five hundred. 23Sons of Issachar by their families; of Tola is the family of the Tolaite; of Pua the family of the Punite; 24of Jashub the family of the Jashubite; of Shimron the family of the Shimronite. 25These are families of Issachar, by their numbered ones, four and sixty thousand and three hundred. 26Sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered is the family of the Sardite; of Elon the family of the Elonite; of Jahleel the family of the Jahleelite. 27These are families of the Zebulunite by their numbered ones, sixty thousand and five hundred. 28Sons of Joseph by their families are Manasseh and Ephraim. 29Sons of Manasseh: of Machir is the family of the Machirite; and Machir hath begotten Gilead; of Gilead is the family of the Gileadite. 30These are sons of Gilead: of Jeezer is the family of the Jeezerite; of Helek the family of the Helekite; 31and of Asriel the family of the Asrielite; and of Shechem the family of the Shechemite; 32and of Shemida the family of the Shemidaite; and of Hepher the family of the Hepherite. 33And Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad are Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34These are families of Manasseh, and their numbered ones are two and fifty thousand and seven hundred. 35These are sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah is the family of the Shuthelhite; of Becher the family of the Bachrite; of Tahan the family of the Tahanite. 36And these are sons of Shuthelah: of Eran the family of the Eranite. 37These are families of the sons of Ephraim, by their numbered ones, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These are sons of Joseph by their families. 38Sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela is the family of the Belaite; of Ashbel the family of the Ashbelite; of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramite; 39of Shupham the family of the Shuphamite; of Hupham the family of the Huphamite. 40And sons of Bela are Ard and Naaman: of Ard is the family of the Ardite: of Naaman the family of the Naamite. 41These are sons of Benjamin by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and six hundred. 42These are sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham is the family of the Shuhamite; these are families of Dan by their families; 43all the families of the Shuhamite, by their numbered ones, are four and sixty thousand and four hundred. 44Sons of Asher by their families: of Jimna is the family of the Jimnite; of Jesui the family of the Jesuite; of Beriah the family of the Beriite. 45Of sons of Beriah: of Heber is the family of the Heberite; of Malchiel the family of the Malchielite. 46And the name of the daughter of Asher is Sarah. 47These are families of the sons of Asher, by their numbered ones, three and fifty thousand and four hundred. 48Sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel is the family of the Jahzeelite; of Guni the family of the Gunite; 49of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite. 50These are families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and four hundred. 51These are numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand, seven hundred and thirty. 52And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 53"To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names; 54to the many thou dost increase their inheritance, and to the few thou dost diminish their inheritance; to each according to his numbered ones is given his inheritance. 55"Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit; 56according to the lot is their inheritance apportioned between many and few." 57And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite. 58These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram, 59and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister. 60And born to Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; 61and Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah. 62And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel. 63These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who have numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho; 64and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai, 65for Jehovah said of them, "They do certainly die in the wilderness;" and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Num 26:1 The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab.
Num 26:52 The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land.
Num 26:57 The families and number of the Levites.
Num 26:63 None was left of them which were numbered at Sinai, but Caleb and Joshua.
Num 25:9 2 The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the Lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" Canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the Israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe. For, though the whole was divided by lot, yet the portions were so disposed, that a numerous tribe did not draw where the lots assigned small inheritances, or the contrary.
Num 1:2 Num 1:3 Exod 30:12 Exod 38:25 Exod 38:26 3 Num 26:63 Num 22:1 Num 31:12 Num 33:48 Num 35:1 Deut 4:46 -
Deut 4:49 Deut 34:1 Deut 34:6 Deut 34:8 4 Num 1:1 1Chr 21:1 5 the eldest.
Gen 29:32 Gen 49:2 Gen 49:3 1Chr 5:1thy children.
Gen 46:8 Gen 46:9 Exod 6:14 1Chr 5:3 6 Num 26:6 7 Num 26:1 Num 26:21 Num 2:11 Gen 46:9 8 Num 26:8 9 Num 1:16 Num 16:1 Num 16:2 -
Num 16:35 Ps 106:17 Jude 1:11 10 earth opened.
Num 16:2 Num 16:31 -
Num 16:35 Num 16:38 Num 27:3 Exod 16:35 Ps 106:17 Ps 106:18together. The Samaritan text does not intimate that Korah was swallowed up, but that he was burnt, as appears to have been the fact; and the Psalmist also, (
Ps 106:17,) only mentions Dathan and Abiram as having been swallowed up. "And the earth swallowed them up, what time that company died; and the fire devoured Korah with the 250 men, who became a sign."
they became a sign.
Num 16:38 1Sam 2:34 Jer 29:22 Ezek 14:8 1Cor 10:6 -
1Cor 10:10 2Pet 2:6 Jude 1:7 11 It seems to be intimated in ch. 16:27, 31-33,
Num 16:27,
Num 16:31 -
Num 16:33, that the sons and the little ones of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up; but the text here expressly affirms, that the children of Korah "died not;" and their descendants were famous even in David's time. On a close inspection, however, of ver. 27
Num 26:27, we shall find, that the sons and the little ones of Dathan and Abiram alone are mentioned.
Num 16:5 Exod 6:24 1Chr 6:22 -
1Chr 6:28 Ps 42:1 Ps 44:1 Ps 45:1 Ps 46:1 Ps 47:1; *titles
Ps 48:1 Ps 49:1 Ps 50:1; *titles
12 Nemuel.
Gen 46:10 Exod 6:15Jemuel. Jachin.
1Kgs 7:21 1Chr 4:24Jarib.
13 Zerah.
Gen 46:10Zohar.
14 The immense decrease of this tribe, no less than 37,100, renders it highly probable, that, influenced by the bad example of Zimri, the Simeonites had been peculiarly criminal in the late wickedness, and that multitudes of them had died of the plague. It is remarkable, that Moses, in De ch. 33
Deut 33:1, bestows no blessing upon this tribe.
Num 1:22 Num 1:23 Num 2:12 Num 2:13 15 Zephon.
Num 2:14 Gen 46:16Ziphion, Haggai, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, Areli.
16 or, Ezbon.
Gen 46:16 17 Gen 46:16Arodi.
18 Num 1:24 Num 1:25 Num 2:14 Num 2:15 19 Er and Onan.
Gen 38:1 -
Gen 38:10 Gen 46:12 1Chr 2:3 -
1Chr 2:8 20 Shelah.
Gen 38:5 Gen 38:11 Gen 38:14 Gen 38:26 -
Gen 38:30 1Chr 4:21Pharez.
Gen 38:27 -
Gen 38:29 Gen 46:12 Ruth 4:18 -
Ruth 4:22 1Chr 2:3 -
1Chr 2:8 Neh 11:4 Neh 11:6 Neh 11:24Perez.
Matt 1:3 Luke 3:33Phares. Zerah.
Gen 38:30 Gen 46:12Zarah.
1Chr 2:4 Neh 11:24 21 Num 26:21 22 Num 1:26 Num 1:27 Num 2:3 Num 2:4 Gen 49:8 1Chr 5:2 Ps 115:14 Heb 7:14 23 the sons.
Num 2:5 Gen 30:17 Gen 30:18 Gen 46:13 1Chr 7:1Pua. or, Phuvah.
24 Jashub. or, Job.
Gen 46:13 25 threescore.
Num 1:28 Num 1:29 Num 2:5 Num 2:6 26 Gen 30:19 Gen 30:20 Gen 46:14 27 Num 1:30 Num 1:31 Num 2:7 Num 2:8 28 Gen 41:51 Gen 41:52 Gen 46:20 Gen 48:5 Gen 48:13 -
Gen 48:20 29 Machir.
Num 32:39 Num 32:40 Num 36:1 Gen 48:14 Deut 3:15 Josh 17:1 Judg 5:14 1Chr 7:14 -
1Chr 7:19 30 Jeezer. called Abiezer.
Josh 17:2 Judg 6:11 Judg 6:24 Judg 6:34 Judg 8:2 31 Num 26:31 32 Num 26:32 33 Zelophehad.
Num 27:1 Num 36:10 -
Num 36:12 34 Num 1:34 Num 1:35 Num 2:20 Num 2:21 35 Becher.
1Chr 7:20 1Chr 7:21Bered. Tahath. Eladah. Tahath.
36 Num 26:36 37 Num 1:32 Num 1:33 Num 2:18 Num 2:19 38 sons of Benjamin.
1Chr 7:6 -
1Chr 7:12Ahiram.
Gen 46:2Ehi.
1Chr 8:1Aharah.
39 Shupham.
Gen 46:21Muppim, and Huppim.
40 Ard and Naaman.
1Chr 8:3Addar.
41 Num 1:36 Num 1:37 Num 2:22 Num 2:23 Gen 46:21 42 Shuam.
Gen 46:23Hushim.
43 Num 1:38 Num 1:39 Num 2:25 Num 2:26 44 the children of Asher.
Gen 46:17Jimnah. Ishuah. Isui.
1Chr 7:30Imnah. Isuah. Ishuai.
45 Num 26:45 46 Sarah.
Gen 46:17Serah.
47 Num 1:40 Num 1:41 Num 2:27 Num 2:28 48 the sons of Naphtali.
Gen 46:24 1Chr 7:13 49 Shillem.
1Chr 7:13Shallum.
50 Num 1:42 Num 1:43 Num 2:29 Num 2:30 51 The following comparative statement will show how much some of the tribes had increased, and others had diminished, since the enumeration in ch. 1:
Now. Before.
Thus we find there was the following increase and decrease in the several tribes:
Decrease in all . . . . . . 61,020 Increase in all . . . . . . 59,200 ______ Decrease on the whole . . . 1,820
It should be observed, that among these there was not one of the former census, except Joshua and Caleb. (See ver. 64, 65.
Num 26:64,
Num 26:65) Thus, though there was such an amazing increase in seven tribes, yet so great was the decrease in the other five tribes, that the balance against the present census is 1,820, as appears above. Notwithstanding the amazing increase in some, and decrease in other tribes, the same sort of proportion is kept in their several divisions; so as to keep the division in the front the largest, and that in the rear the next.
Num 1:46 Num 2:32 Neh 9:23 Job 12:9 Job 12:10 Job 12:14 Job 12:20 -
Job 12:23 Ps 77:20 52 Num 26:52 53 Gen 12:2 Gen 12:7 Josh 11:23 Josh 14:1 Ps 49:14 Ps 105:44 Ezek 47:22 Dan 7:27 Matt 5:5 Rev 5:10 Rev 21:27 54 many.
Num 32:3 Num 32:5 Num 33:54 Josh 17:14give the more. Heb. multiply his. give the less. Heb. diminish his.
55 by lot.
Num 26:56 Num 33:54 Num 34:13 Josh 11:23 Josh 14:2 Josh 17:14 Josh 18:6 Josh 18:10 Josh 18:11 Josh 19:1 Josh 19:10 Josh 19:17 Josh 19:24 Josh 19:32 Josh 19:40 Pro 16:33 Pro 18:18 Acts 1:26 Col 1:12 Rev 7:4 -
Rev 7:8 56 This division by lot seems to have respect only to the quarter, or situation, which each tribe was to possess, and not to the quantity or extent of land, which was to be proportioned to the numbers of each tribe, according to the register now formed. Thus, for instance, it was determined by lot which of the twelve tribes was to inherit in the south, which in the north, etc. : then, in that quarter where the lot fell, a larger or smaller portion of land was assigned them, according to the goodness of the soil, and in proportion as they were more or less numerous. Thus the decreasing of any tribe in the wilderness, proved the decrease of their future political importance and affluence in all succeeding ages. This equal division of property was, under God, the great bulwark and strength of the Hebrew commonwealth. According to the most exact calculations, Canaan contained 14,976,000 acres; which, divided among 600,000 men, will allow of more than 21 acres and a half to each, with a remainder of 1,976,000 acres for the princes of tribes, Levitical cities, etc. : so that there was an ample provision to enable each person, with all the advantages of that fertile country and fine climate, to live, if not in affluent, yet in very comfortable circumstances. Canaan lies between lat. 31 degrees and 33 degrees 30' N., and long. 35 degrees and 37 degrees E.; its length, from the city of Dan to Beersheba, is about 200 miles; and its breadth, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the eastern borders, about 90. The Canaanites, the descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, and the original inhabitants of the land, were divided into seven principal nations,--the Amorites, Hittites, Jebusites, Girgashites, Canaanites, Perizzites, and Hivites, and formed themselves into almost as many kingdoms as they had cities. After their defeat by the Israelites, such as escaped the sword became tributary; but in process of time, having seduced them to their idolatries, they recovered many of the strongest places in the country; and even formed themselves into a mighty kingdom in Galilee. They were, however, again defeated by Barak, but were not finally subdued till the reign of David and Solomon; the latter of whom employed 153,600 in the most servile parts of the work of building the temple, palace, etc.
Rom 11:7 1Cor 12:4 57 these are.
Num 35:2 Num 35:3 Gen 46:11 Exod 6:16 -
Exod 6:19 1Chr 6:1 1Chr 6:16 -
1Chr 6:30of Gershon.
Num 3:1 -
Num 4:49 58 Num 3:17 -
Num 3:21 Num 16:1 59 Exod 2:1 Exod 2:2 Exod 6:20 Lev 18:12 60 Num 3:2 Num 3:8 61 Num 3:4 Lev 10:1 Lev 10:2 1Chr 24:1 1Chr 24:2 62 those that.
Num 1:49 Num 3:39 Num 4:27 Num 4:48 Num 18:20 -
Num 18:24 Num 35:2 -
Num 35:8 Deut 10:9 Deut 14:27 -
Deut 14:29 Deut 18:1 Deut 18:2 Josh 13:14 Josh 13:33 Josh 14:3they were not.
Num 1:49because.
Num 18:20 -
Num 18:24 Num 35:2 -
Num 35:8 Deut 10:9 Deut 14:27 -
Deut 14:29 Deut 18:1 Deut 18:2 Josh 13:14 Josh 13:33 Josh 14:3 63 Num 26:3 64 Num 1:1 -
Num 2:34 Deut 2:14 Deut 2:15 Deut 4:3 Deut 4:4 1Cor 10:5 65 They shall.
Num 14:23 Num 14:24 Num 14:28 -
Num 14:30 Num 14:35 Num 14:38 Exod 12:37 Deut 2:14 Deut 2:15 Deut 32:49 Deut 32:50 Ps 90:3 -
Ps 90:7 Rom 11:22 1Cor 10:5 1Cor 10:6 Heb 3:17 Heb 3:18 Jude 1:5save Caleb.
Num 14:30 Num 14:38