Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Numbers 26:59
whom her mother bare - literally, “whom she bare;” the subject is wanting, and the verb is in the feminine gender. The words “her mother” are merely conjectural. The text is probably imperfect.
whom her mother bare - literally, “whom she bare;” the subject is wanting, and the verb is in the feminine gender. The words “her mother” are merely conjectural. The text is probably imperfect.
3. THE SECOND NUMBERING CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 26:1)_ 2. The census taken (Numbers 26:5) 3. The total number (Numbers 26:51) 4. The inheritance ...
NUMBERS 26. PARTICULARS OF A SECOND CENSUS TAKEN 38 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST. Numbers 26:1. The Numbers of the Twelve Secular Tribes. The census was again confined to men over twenty. The total is Numbe...
JOCHEBED. Compare Exodus 2:1 with Exodus 6:20. BARE TO LEVI IN EGYPT. This explains apparent discrepancy between her age and that of Amram. See App-60....
The Kohathites receive more detailed treatment; it was the most important of the families, because Moses and Aaron belonged to it....
The census of the Levites. They were numbered separately from the secular tribes, because they were not, as a tribe, to possess any land....
WHOM HER MOTHER BARE TO LEVI— Who bare to Levi. Perizon. 361. See Houbigant's note on the place....
F. CENSUS OF THE LEVITES vv. 57-65 TEXT Numbers 26:57. 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 th...
_AND THE NAME OF AMRAM'S WIFE WAS JOCHEBED, THE DAUGHTER OF LEVI, WHOM HER MOTHER BARE TO LEVI IN EGYPT: AND SHE BARE UNTO AMRAM AARON AND MOSES, AND MIRIAM THEIR SISTER._ No JFB commentary on these...
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 Canaan, and this second enumeration is made in view of t...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 THE SECOND *CENSUS – NUMBERS 26:1-65 V1 After the disease had stopped, the *LORD spoke to Moses and Elea
JOCHEBED, THE DAUGHTER OF LEVI, WHOM HER MOTHER BARE TO LEVI... — Or, _who was born to Levi,_ &c. There is a similar omission of the subject of the verb in 1 Kings 1:6. Some writers have supposed that...
וְ שֵׁ֣ם ׀ אֵ֣שֶׁת עַמְרָ֗ם יֹוכֶ֨בֶד֙ בַּת ־
A NEW GENERATION Numbers 26:1; Numbers 27:1 THE numbering at Sinai before the sojourn in the Desert of Paran has its counterpart in the numbering now recorded. In either case those reckoned are the m...
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 preparation for taking possession of the land from whic...
_Levi. Septuagint, "who bore these ( Lobni, &c.) to Levi, in Egypt; and she bore to Amram, Aaron," &c., as if Jochabed had been wife both of Levi and of Amram, which is very improbable. It is more lik...
The Reader should take notice in this place that the tribe of Levi is not numbered with the general return of the other tribes of Israel, because these Levites peculiarly belonged to the LORD. See Num...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, 28, AND 29. The journey being now ended, God numbers afresh His people, and counts them by name, as heirs ready to take possession of the inheritance....
Numbers 26:57...
1 The summe of all Israel is taken in the plaines of Moab. 52 The law of diuiding among them the inheritance of the land. 57 The families and number of the Leuites. 63 None were left of them which...
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt, Exodus 2:1; Exodus 6:20; AND SHE BARE UNTO AMRAM AARON AND MOSES, AND MIRIAM, THEIR SISTER....
CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE LAND AND THE LEVITES...
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 end of that journey another census is required by God. A...
57-62 Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua....
HER MOTHER, to wit, Levi's wife, which must necessarily be understood....
This, though one of the longest Chapter s in our book, does not call for much in the way of remark or exposition. In it we have the record of the second numbering of the people, as they were about to...
Numbers 26:59 name H8034 Amrams H6019 wife H802 Jochebed H3115 daughter H1323 Levi H3878 born H3205 (H8804) Levi...
THE NUMBERING OF THE LEVITES FOR THEIR SERVICE (NUMBERS 26:57). Once again it is significant that the Levites are numbered in ‘round thousands'. They operated through their three sub-tribes, and thei...
CONTENTS: The new generation of Israel numbered. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eleazar, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God is faithful to His threatenings as well as to His promises. Millions may fall to the...
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 omitted here of those who went down into Egypt, ar...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 26:1__ The first census (ch. Numbers 1:1) established the number of fighting men in Israel. This second census establishes the size of each tribe, so that each may receive the
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 supplied in the A. V. to fill up an ellipsis; and it seems to...
EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING (Numbers 26:1). NUMBERS 26:1 IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE PLAGUE. This plague was the last event which seriously diminished the numbers of the Israelites; perhaps it was...
Now in chapter twenty-six we again have the tribes numbered off. Now remember this is at the end of the forty years of wandering. At the beginning of the forty years of wandering they numbered the tri...
Exodus 2:1; Exodus 2:2; Exodus 6:20; Leviticus 18:12...