Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 26:44

[Of] 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.

Of Jesui, called Isui, Gen 46:17, where also there is another son of Asher named, to wit, Ishuah, whose family seems now to be lost.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

Ver. 44-47. Of the children of Asher, after their families,…. This tribe was numbered next to Dan, because it was under his standard; one of his sons is omitted, very probably dying childless, and so had no family; from the rest sprang the families of the Iimnite, Jesuite, and Benite; and, from the latter, two others, the Heberite and Malchielite; and it is remarked that Asher had a daughter named Serah, and who also is particularly mentioned as a sister of Asher’s sons in

Ge 46:17 no doubt but she was a remarkable woman, either for religion, or for wisdom and prudence, or some amiable virtue or grace or another, that she is so particularly taken notice of: according to Maimonides p she was an heiress; for though Asher had many sons, this was his wife’s daughter by another man, who had no sons, and the inheritance was his daughter’s, and therefore is so particularly mentioned; she inheriting as the daughters of Zelophehad did: the number of persons in this tribe was 53,400, the increase was 11,900.

p Apud Abendana in loc.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Verses 44-47:

Three families were named for sons, two for grandsons of Asher. A sixth name is listed in Ge 46:17 and 1Ch 7:30: Ishuah, or Ishuah. It is likely that this son founded no family.

The count of Asher’s men showed 53,400, an increase of 11,900 over the first census of 41,500.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

44-47. The children of Asher This passage agrees with Gen 46:17 and 1Ch 7:30, except that Ishua, not being a founder, is dropped.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Num 26:44 [Of] 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.

Ver. 44. The family of the Jesuites. ] Serrarius will needs derive the name Jesuites from Num 26:24 ; it is wonder how he missed of this plainer text. Jesuites quasi Jashubites: like as Erasmus found friars in St Paul’s time, inter falsos fratres, amongst the false brethren. In Salamanca a friar would prove that the name of the Virgin Mary was spoken of in Gen 1:1-31 . God called the gathering together of the waters Maria a Dr Poynes b writes, that it was foretold in the Old Testament that the Protestants were a malignant Church, alleging, 2Ch 24:19 Mittebatque prophetas ut reverterentur ad Dominum, quos protestantes illi audire nolebant. We may, with far more show of reason, fetch the name of Protestants (retained also in their Douay translation) from that text than they can from this, the name of Jesuites alias Jebusites.

a Stella, De Modo Concionandi, cap. 6.

b Preface to his book Of the Sacrament.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)