(KJV) Numbers 261

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⥃The Second Census of Israel [ Numbers 1:1–4 ]

[1] And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,2 [2] 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.34 [3] And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,5 [4] [Take the sum of the people], 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.6

⥃The Tribe of Reuben

[5] Reuben, the eldest7 son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, [of whom cometh] the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: [6] Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. [7] These [are] the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.8 [8] And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. [9] 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:9 [10] And the earth opened10 her mouth, and swallowed them up together11 with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign12. [11] Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.1314

⥃The Tribe of Simeon

[12] [¶]The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel15, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin16, the family of the Jachinites: [13] Of Zerah17, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. [14] These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.1819

⥃The Tribe of Gad

[15] [¶]The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon20, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni21, the family of the Shunites: [16] Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:22 [17] Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.23 [18] These [are] the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.24

⥃The Tribe of Judah

[19] [¶]The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan25: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. [20] And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah26, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez27, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah28, the family of the Zarhites. [21] And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. [22] These [are] the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.29

⥃The Tribe of Issachar

[23] [¶][Of] the sons30 of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua31, the family of the Punites: [24] Of Jashub32, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. [25] These [are] the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore33 and four thousand and three hundred.

⥃The Tribe of Zebulun

[26] [¶][Of] 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.34 [27] These [are] the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.35

⥃The Tribe of Manasseh

[28] [¶]The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh and Ephraim.36 [29] Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir37, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come] the family of the Gileadites. [30] These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of] Jeezer38, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: [31] And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: [32] And [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

[33] [¶]And Zelophehad39 the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad [were] Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. [34] These [are] the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.40

⥃The Tribe of Ephraim

[35] [¶]These [are] the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher41, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. [36] And these [are] the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. [37] These [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph after their families.42

⥃The Tribe of Benjamin

[38] [¶]The sons of Benjamin43 after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram44, the family of the Ahiramites: [39] Of Shupham45, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. [40] And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman46: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. [41] These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.47

⥃The Tribe of Dan

[42] [¶]These [are] the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham48, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan after their families. [43] All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and four thousand and four hundred.49

⥃The Tribe of Asher

[44] [¶][Of] the children of Asher50 after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. [45] Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. [46] And the name of the daughter of Asher [was] Sarah51. [47] These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.52

⥃The Tribe of Naphtali

[48] [¶][Of] the sons of Naphtali53 after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: [49] Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem54, the family of the Shillemites. [50] These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and four hundred.55 [51] These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.56

⥃Inheritance by Lot

[52] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [53] Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.57 [54] To many58 thou shalt give the more59 inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less60 inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him. [55] Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot61: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. [56] According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.6263

⥃The Levites Numbered

[57] And these [are64] they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon65, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. [58] These [are] 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.66 [59] 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.67 [60] And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.68 [61] And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.69 [62] And those that70 were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not71 numbered among the children of Israel, because72 there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

⥃Only Caleb and Joshua Remain

[63] 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.73 [64] 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.74 [65] For the Lord had said of them, They shall75 surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb76 the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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  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. ↩

  2. Num 25:9 ↩

  3. 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. ↩

  4. Num 1:2-3; Exod 30:12, Exod 38:25-26 ↩

  5. Num 26:63, Num 22:1, Num 31:12, Num 33:48, Num 35:1; Deut 4:46-49, Deut 34:1, Deut 34:6, Deut 34:8 ↩

  6. Num 1:1; 1Chr 21:1 ↩

  7. Gen 29:32, Gen 49:2-3; 1Chr 5:1, thy children, Gen 46:8-9; Exod 6:14; 1Chr 5:3 ↩

  8. Num 26:1, Num 26:21, Num 2:11; Gen 46:9 ↩

  9. Num 1:16, Num 16:1, Num 16:2-35; Ps 106:17; Jude 1:11 ↩

  10. Num 16:2, Num 16:31-35, Num 16:38, Num 27:3; Exod 16:35; Ps 106:17-18 ↩

  11. 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." ↩

  12. Num 16:38; 1Sam 2:34; Jer 29:22; Ezek 14:8; 1Cor 10:6-10; 2Pet 2:6; Jude 1:7 ↩

  13. It seems to be intimated in Num 16:27, Num 16:31-33, 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 Num 26:27, we shall find, that the sons and the little ones of Dathan and Abiram alone are mentioned. ↩

  14. Num 16:5; Exod 6:24; 1Chr 6:22-28; 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 ↩

  15. Gen 46:10; Exod 6:15, Jemuel ↩

  16. 1Kgs 7:21; 1Chr 4:24, Jarib ↩

  17. Gen 46:10, Zohar ↩

  18. 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 Deut 33:1-29, bestows no blessing upon this tribe. ↩

  19. Num 1:22-23, Num 2:12-13 ↩

  20. Num 2:14; Gen 46:16, Ziphion, Haggai ↩

  21. Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, Areli ↩

  22. or, Ezbon, Gen 46:16 ↩

  23. Gen 46:16, Arodi ↩

  24. Num 1:24-25, Num 2:14-15 ↩

  25. Gen 38:1-10, Gen 46:12; 1Chr 2:3-8 ↩

  26. Gen 38:5, Gen 38:11, Gen 38:14, Gen 38:26-30; 1Chr 4:21 ↩

  27. Gen 38:27-29, Gen 46:12; Ruth 4:18-22; 1Chr 2:3-8; Neh 11:4, Neh 11:6, Neh 11:24, Perez, Matt 1:3; Luke 3:33, Phares ↩

  28. Gen 38:30, Gen 46:12, Zarah, 1Chr 2:4; Neh 11:24 ↩

  29. Num 1:26-27, Num 2:3-4; Gen 49:8; 1Chr 5:2; Ps 115:14; Heb 7:14 ↩

  30. Num 2:5; Gen 30:17-18, Gen 46:13; 1Chr 7:1 ↩

  31. or, Phuvah ↩

  32. or, Job, Gen 46:13 ↩

  33. Num 1:28-29, Num 2:5-6 ↩

  34. Gen 30:19-20, Gen 46:14 ↩

  35. Num 1:30-31, Num 2:7-8 ↩

  36. Gen 41:51-52, Gen 46:20, Gen 48:5, Gen 48:13-20 ↩

  37. Num 32:39-40, Num 36:1; Gen 48:14; Deut 3:15; Josh 17:1; Judg 5:14; 1Chr 7:14-19 ↩

  38. called Abi–ezer, Josh 17:2; Judg 6:11, Judg 6:24, Judg 6:34, Judg 8:2 ↩

  39. Num 27:1, Num 36:10-12 ↩

  40. Num 1:34-35, Num 2:20-21 ↩

  41. 1Chr 7:20-21, Bered, Tahath, Eladah, Tahath ↩

  42. Num 1:32-33, Num 2:18-19 ↩

  43. 1Chr 7:6-12 ↩

  44. Gen 46:2, Ehi, 1Chr 8:1, Aharah ↩

  45. Gen 46:21, Muppim, and Huppim ↩

  46. 1Chr 8:3, Addar ↩

  47. Num 1:36-37, Num 2:22-23; Gen 46:21 ↩

  48. Gen 46:23, Hushim ↩

  49. Num 1:38-39, Num 2:25-26 ↩

  50. Gen 46:17, Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, 1Chr 7:30, Imnah, Isuah, Ishuai ↩

  51. Gen 46:17, Serah ↩

  52. Num 1:40-41, Num 2:27-28 ↩

  53. Gen 46:24; 1Chr 7:13 ↩

  54. 1Chr 7:13, Shallum ↩

  55. Num 1:42-43, Num 2:29-30 ↩

  56. Num 1:46, Num 2:32; Neh 9:23; Job 12:9-10, Job 12:14, Job 12:20-23; Ps 77:20 ↩

  57. 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 ↩

  58. Num 32:3, Num 32:5, Num 33:54; Josh 17:14 ↩

  59. Heb. multiply his ↩

  60. Heb. diminish his. ↩

  61. Num 26:56, Num 33:54, Num 34:13; Josh 11:23, Josh 14:2, Josh 17:14, Josh 18:6, Josh 18:10-11, Josh 19:1, Josh 19:10; Josh 19:17, Josh 19:24, Josh 19:32, Josh 19:40; Prov 16:33, Prov 18:18; Acts 1:26; Col 1:12; Rev 7:4-8 ↩

  62. 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 minutes n, and long. 35 degrees and 37 degrees e; its length, from the city of Dan to Beer–sheba, 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. ↩

  63. Rom 11:7; 1Cor 12:4 ↩

  64. Num 35:2-3; Gen 46:11; Exod 6:16-19; 1Chr 6:1, 1Chr 6:16-30 ↩

  65. Num. 3:1-4:49 ↩

  66. Num 3:17-21, Num 16:1 ↩

  67. Exod 2:1-2, Exod 6:20; Lev 18:12 ↩

  68. Num 3:2, Num 3:8 ↩

  69. Num 3:4; Lev 10:1-2; 1Chr 24:1-2 ↩

  70. Num 1:49, Num 3:39, Num 4:27, Num 4:48, Num 18:20-24, Num 35:2-8; Deut 10:9, Deut 14:27-29, Deut 18:1-2; Josh 13:14, Josh 13:33, Josh 14:3 ↩

  71. Num 1:49 ↩

  72. Num 18:20-24, Num 35:2-8; Deut 10:9, Deut 14:27-29, Deut 18:1-2; Josh 13:14, Josh 13:33, Josh 14:3 ↩

  73. Num 26:3 ↩

  74. Num. 1:1-2:34; Deut 2:14-15, Deut 4:3-4; 1Cor 10:5 ↩

  75. Num 14:23-24, Num 14:28-30, Num 14:35, Num 14:38; Exod 12:37; Deut 2:14-15, Deut 32:49-50; Ps 90:3-7; Rom 11:22; 1Cor 10:5-6; Heb 3:17-18; Jude 1:5 ↩

  76. Num 14:30, Num 14:38 ↩