Numbers 26:1
INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 26
In this chapter an order is given to number the people of Israel a second time, Nu 26:1 and the account begins with Reuben, the firstborn, and the families that sprung from him, and the number of them, Nu 26:5 and Dathan and Abiram being of this tribe, the affair of them and Korah is afresh related, Nu 26:8, then the tribe of Simeon, its families and number, Nu 26:12, next the tribe of Gad, and their families and number, Nu 26:15, after that the tribe of Judah, its families and number, Nu 26:19 then follows the tribe of Issachar, its families and number, Nu 26:23, next to that the tribe of Zebulun, its families and number, Nu 26:26 then the sons of Joseph, and first Manasseh, his families and number, Nu 26:28 and then the tribe of Ephraim, its families and number, Nu 26:35, after that the tribe of Benjamin, its families and number, Nu 26:38 next the tribe of Dan, its families and number, Nu 26:42 and which is followed by the tribe of Asher, its families and number, Nu 26:44, and the muster is closed with the tribe of Naphtali, its families and number, Nu 26:48, and the sum total of all the numbers is given, Nu 26:51 and then follows another order to divide the land of Canaan by lot, when conquered, to the several tribes, according to their names and number, Nu 26:52 and an account is given of the number of the Levites and their families, their number being taken not with the other tribes, but by themselves, and which is summed up, Nu 26:57 and the chapter is concluded with observing, that it appeared upon this numbering of the people, that there were but two persons living of those that were first numbered among the children of Israel, Nu 26:63.
Ver. 1. And it came to pass after the plague,.... Related in the preceding chapter; how long after is not certain, perhaps before the war with Midian, exhorted to in the latter part of the foregoing chapter, and of which an account is given, Nu 31:1:
that the Lord spake unto Moses; out of the tabernacle, or out of the cloud:
and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest; the Lord had been used to speak to Moses and to Aaron; but now Aaron being dead, and Eleazar his son succeeding him in the priesthood, is joined with Moses, and the order here given is directed to them both:
saying: as follows.