Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 36:12
[And] they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
Verse 12. And their inheritance remained in – the family] “By this example, and the law of inheritances in the Holy Land, the people of God,” says Ainsworth, “are taught to hold fast their inheritance in his promises, and their right in Christ, which they hold by faith; that as the Father hath made them meet to be partakers of the inheritance among the saints in light, Col 1:12, so they may keep the faith and grace which they have received to the end.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph,…. The family of the Hepherites, of which they were. Aben Ezra observes, that their being married into families, and not a family, is a sign that their uncles’ sons were not all of them brethren, or the sons of one man, but of more, though all sons of one or other of their father’s, brethren:
and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father; by means of these marriages, even both in their father’s tribe and family.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Num 36:12. And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh That is, according to the margin of our English Bibles, some who were of the families of Manasseh, from whom several families descended; for they did not marry promiscuously into any of the families of Manasseh, but into their father’s family, which was the family of Hepher. Hence some would render the latter clause of this verse, in the house of the family of their father.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
into the families: Heb. to some that were of the families, Num 36:12
Reciprocal: Num 36:6 – only to the family