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Levi excepted: their number, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/numbers/26-1.htm" title="And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,...">Numbers 26:1-51</a></span>. The land to be distributed according to their number, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/numbers/26-52.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,...">Numbers 26:52-56</a></span>. The Levites numbered by themselves, because they had no inheritance, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/numbers/26-57.htm" title="And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites....">Numbers 26:57-62</a></span>. All that were numbered by Moses and Aaron at Sinai, save only Caleb and Joshua, died in the wilderness, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/numbers/26-63.htm" title="These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho....">Numbers 26:63-65</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="bld">After the plague, </span> last mentioned, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/25-8.htm" title="And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.">Numbers 25:8</a>,9</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Eleazar, </span> his father being dead, was high priest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Numbers 26:2</a></div><div class="verse">Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.</div> They were numbered twice before, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/exodus/30-11.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,">Exodus 30:11</a>,12</span>, and <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-1.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,">Numbers 1:1</a>,2</span>. Now they are numbered a third time, partly to demonstrate the faithfulness of God, both in cutting all those off whom he had threatened to cut off, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/14-29.htm" title="Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.">Numbers 14:29</a></span>, and in a stupendous increase and multiplication of the people according to his promise, notwithstanding all their sins, and the sweeping judgments inflicted upon them; and partly to prepare the way for the equal division of the land which they were now going to possess. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-3.htm">Numbers 26:3</a></div><div class="verse">And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan <i>near</i> Jericho, saying,</div> <span class="bld">In the plains of Moab; </span> see <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/22-1.htm" title="And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.">Numbers 22:1</a> 33:48</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Take the sum of the people</i>, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.</div> <span class="bld">Take the sum of the people:</span> these words are easily supplied and necessarily to be understood from <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm" title="Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.">Numbers 26:2</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-5.htm">Numbers 26:5</a></div><div class="verse">Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, <i>of whom cometh</i> the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-6.htm">Numbers 26:6</a></div><div class="verse">Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-7.htm">Numbers 26:7</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.</div> <span class="bld">The families, </span> i.e. the chief houses, which were subdivided into divers lesser families. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty; </span> whereas in their last numbering they were 46,500, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-21.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.">Numbers 1:21</a></span>; for Korah’s conspiracy, as well as other provocations of theirs, had cut off many of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-8.htm">Numbers 26:8</a></div><div class="verse">And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.</div> <span class="bld">Sons for son, </span> of which change of the number see <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/12-7.htm" title="And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.">Genesis 12:7</a> <a href="/genesis/46-7.htm" title="His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.">Genesis 46:7</a></span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-9.htm">Numbers 26:9</a></div><div class="verse">And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This <i>is that</i> Dathan and Abiram, <i>which were</i> famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-10.htm">Numbers 26:10</a></div><div class="verse">And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.</div> <span class="bld">Swallowed them up together with Korah:</span> according to this translation Korah was not consumed by fire with his two hundred and fifty men, <span class="bld"> Num 16</span>, but swallowed up by the earth. But others rather think he was devoured by the fire, of which see on <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/16-32.htm" title="And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.">Numbers 16:32</a>,35</span>, and render these words, <span class="ital">and</span> the things <span class="ital">of Korah</span>, or belonging to Korah, to wit, his tent, and goods, and family, children excepted, as here follows; which interpretation receives strength by comparing this place with <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/16-32.htm" title="And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.">Numbers 16:32</a></span>, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them</span> (to wit, <span class="ital">Dathan</span> and <span class="ital">Abiram</span>, as is manifest from <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-24.htm" title="Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.">Numbers 26:24</a>,25,27</span>) <span class="ital">up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah</span>; which variation of the phrase plainly shows that Korah himself was not swallowed up with them, but only his men and his tabernacle, which is mentioned there together with the tabernacles of Dathan and Abiram, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-24.htm" title="Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.">Numbers 26:24</a>,27</span>, but his person is not there mentioned with their persons. Nor is it unusual both in sacred and profane authors, by the name of a man who is the head and master, to understand only his house and family, though himself be not included. But this difficulty may be cleared another way. The Hebrew particle <span class="ital">eth</span> may? be here the note of a nominative case, as it is <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_kings/6-5.htm" title="But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.">2 Kings 6:5</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm" title="Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.">Nehemiah 9:19</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-16.htm" title="So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life.">Jeremiah 38:16</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-14.htm" title="And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.">Ezekiel 39:14</a> 43:7</span>, and there may be a defect of a verb, which is most frequent; and so the place may be rendered thus, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, </span> to wit, Dathan and Abiram, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-9.htm" title="And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:">Numbers 26:9</a></span>, <span class="ital">and Korah</span>, or, and <span class="ital">as for Korah</span>, he died (which verb is easily understood out of the following noun, of which ellipsis there are many instances in Scripture, some whereof have been given before, and more will follow in their places) <span class="ital">in the death of that company, or when that company died, what time the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty men</span>. And so this place, and <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/16-35.htm" title="And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.">Numbers 16:35</a></span>, explain one another; and whereas there. is mention only of two hundred and fifty men consumed by that fire, Korah is here added to the number. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">They became a sign, </span> i.e. God made them a monument or example, to warn others not to rebel against God nor against magistracy, nor to usurp the priestly office. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-11.htm">Numbers 26:11</a></div><div class="verse">Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.</div> God being pleased to spare them, either because they disowned their father’s act, and thereupon separated themselves both from his tent and company, or because Moses interceded for them, or because God would glorify his own free mercy in sparing some, while he punished others, according to his declaration in a like case, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/exodus/33-19.htm" title="And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.">Exodus 33:19</a></span>. Hence the sons of Korah are mentioned <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-22.htm" title="The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,">1 Chronicles 6:22</a>,37</span>, and oft in the book of Psalms. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-12.htm">Numbers 26:12</a></div><div class="verse">The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:</div> <span class="bld">Nemuel, </span> called <span class="ital">Jemuel</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-10.htm" title="And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.">Genesis 46:10</a> <a href="/exodus/6-15.htm" title="And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.">Exodus 6:15</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Jachin, </span> called also <span class="ital">Jarib</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/4-24.htm" title="The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:">1 Chronicles 4:24</a></span>. And such names might be either added or changed upon some special occasion not recorded in Scripture. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-13.htm">Numbers 26:13</a></div><div class="verse">Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.</div> <span class="bld">Zerah, </span> called also <span class="ital">Zohar</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-10.htm" title="And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.">Genesis 46:10</a> <a href="/exodus/6-15.htm" title="And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.">Exodus 6:15</a></span>. There is another of his sons, <span class="ital">Ohad</span>, mentioned <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-10.htm" title="And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.">Genesis 46:10</a></span>, not here, possibly because his family was extinct before this time. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-14.htm">Numbers 26:14</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.</div> Whereas there were 35,400 in <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-23.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.">Numbers 1:23</a></span>. It is thought the example of Zimri, one of their princes, <span class="bld"> Num 25</span>, and some others among them, did infect the generality of the tribe, and so caused this great diminution in their numbers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-15.htm">Numbers 26:15</a></div><div class="verse">The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:</div> <span class="bld">Gad</span> is placed next, because he was joined with Reuben and Simeon in the same camp and quarters, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/2-10.htm" title="On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.">Numbers 2:10</a>,14</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Zephon, </span> called <span class="ital">Ziphion</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-16.htm" title="And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.">Genesis 46:16</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-16.htm">Numbers 26:16</a></div><div class="verse">Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:</div> <span class="bld">Ozni, </span> called <span class="ital">Ezbon</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-16.htm" title="And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.">Genesis 46:16</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-17.htm">Numbers 26:17</a></div><div class="verse">Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.</div> <span class="bld">Arod, </span> called <span class="ital">Arodi</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-16.htm" title="And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.">Genesis 46:16</a></span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-18.htm">Numbers 26:18</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.</div> Fewer by above five thousand than there were in their last numbering, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/2-15.htm" title="And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.">Numbers 2:15</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-19.htm">Numbers 26:19</a></div><div class="verse">The sons of Judah <i>were</i> Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-20.htm">Numbers 26:20</a></div><div class="verse">And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-21.htm">Numbers 26:21</a></div><div class="verse">And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.</div> <span class="bld">The sons of Pharez, </span> though Judah’s grandchildren, are here mentioned among his sons, because they are put in the stead of Er and Onan, which died before. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-22.htm">Numbers 26:22</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.</div> About two thousand more than they were <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-27.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were three score and fourteen thousand and six hundred.">Numbers 1:27</a></span>; whereas the foregoing tribes were all diminished, this tribe was now increased, and the blessing promised to that tribe above the rest, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/49-8.htm" title="Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.">Genesis 49:8</a></span>, doth herein begin to show itself. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="23"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-23.htm">Numbers 26:23</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Of</i> the sons of Issachar after their families: <i>of</i> Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:</div> <span class="bld">Pua, </span> called also <span class="ital">Phuvah</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-13.htm" title="And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.">Genesis 46:13</a></span>; as his brother <span class="ital">Jashub</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-24.htm" title="Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.">Numbers 26:24</a></span>, is called <span class="ital">Job</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-13.htm" title="And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.">Genesis 46:13</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="24"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-24.htm">Numbers 26:24</a></div><div class="verse">Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="25"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-25.htm">Numbers 26:25</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.</div> A great increase. Compare <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/2-6.htm" title="And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.">Numbers 2:6</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="26"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-26.htm">Numbers 26:26</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Of</i> the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="27"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-27.htm">Numbers 26:27</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.</div> Whereas before they were but 57,400 in <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-31.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.">Numbers 1:31</a> 2:8</span>. So that Judah’s camp was much increased, as Reuben’s was much diminished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="28"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-28.htm">Numbers 26:28</a></div><div class="verse">The sons of Joseph after their families <i>were</i> Manasseh and Ephraim.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="29"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-29.htm">Numbers 26:29</a></div><div class="verse">Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead <i>come</i> the family of the Gileadites.</div> Gilead is here mentioned as Machir’s only son, and therefore some conceive that the family of the Machirites, and of the Gileadites, are one and the same family, only called by two names; first Machirites, but afterwards Gileadites. Others make them distinct families, because Machir had other children, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/1-23.htm" title="And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.">Genesis 1:23</a> <a href="/context/1_chronicles/7-14.htm" title="The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bore: (but his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead:...">1 Chronicles 7:14-16</a></span>, which are called by their father’s name, Machirites, whereas the children of his eldest son Gilead are called by his name, Gileadites. But though Machir had other children, it seems they and their posterity were extinct at this time, and that Machir alone was left and his posterity, as may be gathered by comparing this and the following verses with <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/joshua/17-1.htm" title="There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan....">Joshua 17:1-3</a> <a href="/context/1_chronicles/7-14.htm" title="The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bore: (but his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead:...">1 Chronicles 7:14-19</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="30"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-30.htm">Numbers 26:30</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the sons of Gilead: <i>of</i> Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:</div> <span class="bld">Jeezer, </span> called also <span class="ital">Abiezer</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/joshua/17-2.htm" title="There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.">Joshua 17:2</a> <a href="/judges/6-11.htm" title="And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.">Judges 6:11</a>,34 <a href="/1_chronicles/7-18.htm" title="And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.">1 Chronicles 7:18</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="31"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-31.htm">Numbers 26:31</a></div><div class="verse">And <i>of</i> Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and <i>of</i> Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="32"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-32.htm">Numbers 26:32</a></div><div class="verse">And <i>of</i> Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and <i>of</i> Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="33"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-33.htm">Numbers 26:33</a></div><div class="verse">And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad <i>were</i> Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="34"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-34.htm">Numbers 26:34</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.</div> Whereas they were but 32,200 in <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-35.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.">Numbers 1:35</a></span>. So they are now increased above 50,000, according to that prophecy, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/49-22.htm" title="Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:">Genesis 49:22</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="35"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-35.htm">Numbers 26:35</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.</div> <span class="bld">Becher, </span> called also <span class="ital">Bered</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-20.htm" title="And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,">1 Chronicles 7:20</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="36"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-36.htm">Numbers 26:36</a></div><div class="verse">And these <i>are</i> the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.</div> <span class="bld">Eran, </span> called <span class="ital">Edan</span> or <span class="ital">Laadan</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-26.htm" title="Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son.">1 Chronicles 7:26</a></span>; the letters <span class="ital">daleth</span> and <span class="ital">resh</span> being alike in the Hebrew tongue, and therefore oft changed, as is evident from Scripture instances. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="37"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-37.htm">Numbers 26:37</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These <i>are</i> the sons of Joseph after their families.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="38"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-38.htm">Numbers 26:38</a></div><div class="verse">The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:</div> The sons of Benjamin were ten, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-21.htm" title="And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.">Genesis 46:21</a></span>, whereof only five are here mentioned, the rest probably, together with their families, being extinct ere this time. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Ashbel, </span> called also <span class="ital">Jediael</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-6.htm" title="The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.">1 Chronicles 7:6</a></span>. <span class="ital">Ahiram</span>, called also <span class="ital">Aharah</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/8-1.htm" title="Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,">1 Chronicles 8:1</a></span> and <span class="ital">Ehi</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-21.htm" title="And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.">Genesis 46:21</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="39"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-39.htm">Numbers 26:39</a></div><div class="verse">Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.</div> <span class="bld">Shupham, </span> called also <span class="ital">Shuppim</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-12.htm" title="Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.">1 Chronicles 7:12</a></span>, and <span class="ital">Muppim</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-21.htm" title="And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.">Genesis 46:21</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Hupham, </span> called <span class="ital">Huppim</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-21.htm" title="And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.">Genesis 46:21</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-12.htm" title="Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.">1 Chronicles 7:12</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="40"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-40.htm">Numbers 26:40</a></div><div class="verse">And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: <i>of Ard</i>, the family of the Ardites: <i>and</i> of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.</div> <span class="bld">Ard, </span> or <span class="ital">Arde</span>, and by transposition, <span class="ital">Addar</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_chronicles/8-3.htm" title="And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,">1 Chronicles 8:3</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="41"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-41.htm">Numbers 26:41</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them <i>were</i> forty and five thousand and six hundred.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="42"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-42.htm">Numbers 26:42</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These <i>are</i> the families of Dan after their families.</div> <span class="bld">Shuham, </span> called, by transposition, <span class="ital">Hushim</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-23.htm" title="And the sons of Dan; Hushim.">Genesis 46:23</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">After their families; </span> the greater families subdivided into lesser families. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="43"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-43.htm">Numbers 26:43</a></div><div class="verse">All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, <i>were</i> threescore and four thousand and four hundred.</div> <span class="bld">All from one son and family; </span> whereas of Benjamin, who had ten sons, and here five families, there were only 45,600, to show that the increase of families depends singly upon God’s blessing and good pleasure. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="44"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-44.htm">Numbers 26:44</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Of</i> the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.</div> <span class="bld">Of Jesui, </span> called <span class="ital">Isui</span>, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/46-17.htm" title="And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.">Genesis 46:17</a></span>, where also there is another son of Asher named, to wit, <span class="ital">Ishuah</span>, whose family seems now to be lost. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="45"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-45.htm">Numbers 26:45</a></div><div class="verse">Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="46"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-46.htm">Numbers 26:46</a></div><div class="verse">And the name of the daughter of Asher <i>was</i> Sarah.</div> Who seems to be here mentioned because she was a woman of masculine wisdom, or courage, or other virtue. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="47"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-47.htm">Numbers 26:47</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; <i>who were</i> fifty and three thousand and four hundred.</div> Whereas they were only 41,500 in <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-41.htm" title="Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.">Numbers 1:41</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="48"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-48.htm">Numbers 26:48</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Of</i> the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="49"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-49.htm">Numbers 26:49</a></div><div class="verse">Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="50"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-50.htm">Numbers 26:50</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them <i>were</i> forty and five thousand and four hundred.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="51"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-51.htm">Numbers 26:51</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>were</i> the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.</div> Very nigh as many as there were before, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/1-46.htm" title="Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.">Numbers 1:46</a></span>. So wisely and marvellously did God at the same time manifest his justice in cutting off so vast a number, and his mercy in giving such a speedy and numerous supply, and his truth in both. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="52"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-52.htm">Numbers 26:52</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="53"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-53.htm">Numbers 26:53</a></div><div class="verse">Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.</div> <span class="bld">Unto these; </span> to these families now mentioned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The land shall be divided, </span> by lot, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-55.htm" title="Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.">Numbers 26:55</a></span>. The land was divided into nine parts and a half, respect being had in such division to the goodness as well as to the largeness of the several portions, and the lot gave each tribe their part. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Of names, </span> i.e. of the persons, names being oft put for persons, as <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/acts/1-15.htm" title="And in those days Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)">Acts 1:15</a> <a href="/philippians/2-9.htm" title="Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:">Philippians 2:9</a> <a href="/revelation/3-4.htm" title="You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.">Revelation 3:4</a> 11:13</span>. The meaning is, that the share of each tribe was divided amongst the several families, to some more, to some less, according to the number of the persons of each family, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/33-54.htm" title="And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.">Numbers 33:54</a></span>. And withal, if one of the lots or portions proved too large or too little for all the families and persons of that tribe, in this case they might either give part of their portion to another tribe, as Simeon and Dan had parts of Judah’s share, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/joshua/19-1.htm" title="And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.">Joshua 19:1</a>,40</span>, or take away a part from the portion belonging to another tribe. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="54"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-54.htm">Numbers 26:54</a></div><div class="verse">To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.</div> <span class="bld">Thou shalt give; </span> thou, Moses, partly by thyself, for he divided the land beyond Jordan to the two tribes and a half; and partly by thy successor Joshua, whom thou shalt empower and command to do it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">According to those that were numbered of him; </span> according to the number of the families and persons now numbered, and being twenty years old, no regard being to be had either to any increase of the number by those who came up to that age between this time and the division of the land, or to the diminution of this number by the sword of Canaanites or otherwise. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="55"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-55.htm">Numbers 26:55</a></div><div class="verse">Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.</div> <span class="bld">By lot; </span> 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 them was left to the ruler’s wisdom, according to the rule now given, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/26-54.htm" title="To many you shall give the more inheritance, and to few you shall give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.">Numbers 26:54</a></span>. Yet if any lot was too large for the tribe, they might give up part of their right to others, with the ruler’s consent, as Judah gave a share to Simeon and to Dan within his lot. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">According to the names of the tribes, </span> i.e. the lots shall go under the names of each tribe or each patriarch. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="56"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-56.htm">Numbers 26:56</a></div><div class="verse">According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.</div> 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 shall require. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="57"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-57.htm">Numbers 26:57</a></div><div class="verse">And these <i>are</i> they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="58"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-58.htm">Numbers 26:58</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.</div> The families of the Levites are here numbered by themselves, because they were not to have a distinct share of the land, whence it is that they are not so distinctly and exactly mentioned as the other tribes, but confusedly and imperfectly, some of them being wholly omitted here. See <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/exodus/6-17.htm" title="The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families....">Exodus 6:17-19</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="59"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-59.htm">Numbers 26:59</a></div><div class="verse">And the name of Amram's wife <i>was</i> Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom <i>her mother</i> bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.</div> <span class="bld">Her mother, </span> to wit, Levi’s wife, which must necessarily be understood. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="60"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-60.htm">Numbers 26:60</a></div><div class="verse">And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="61"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-61.htm">Numbers 26:61</a></div><div class="verse">And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="62"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-62.htm">Numbers 26:62</a></div><div class="verse">And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.</div> <span class="bld">Twenty and three thousand; </span> one thousand more than they were <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/3-39.htm" title="All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.">Numbers 3:39</a></span>. The reason of which different way of numbering, see on <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/3-15.htm" title="Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number them.">Numbers 3:15</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="63"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-63.htm">Numbers 26:63</a></div><div class="verse">These <i>are</i> they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan <i>near</i> Jericho.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="64"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-64.htm">Numbers 26:64</a></div><div class="verse">But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.</div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="65"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/numbers/26-65.htm">Numbers 26:65</a></div><div class="verse">For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.</div> <span class="bld">There was not left a man of them, </span> to wit, of those who then murmured and rebelled against God, as plainly appears, both because this threatening and punishment is confined to those transgressors, and because otherwise this had not been true; for of those that were then numbered there were now left Eleazar and Ithamar, and possibly many of the Levites, and some others, who being not guilty of that sin, did not partake of their judgment. Caleb and Joshua are mentioned here, as also <span class="bld"> Num 14</span>, not by way of exception, as if these were murmurers, which is utterly denied, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/numbers/14-24.htm" title="But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into where he went; and his seed shall possess it.">Numbers 14:24</a></span>, but by way of opposition, to signify that they, though they were two of the spies, and companions of them who were the chief authors and ringleaders of that mutiny, yet they kept themselves from their sin, and therefore God kept them from their plague and destruction, as also he did some others for the same reason. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Matthew Poole's Commentary<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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