Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 26:62
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
62. twenty and three thousand ] At the first census the Levites numbered 22,000.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The total number of male Levites, 23,000, shows an increase of 1,000 on the number at Sinai Num 3:39. It is doubtless to be taken as a round number; and, as before, includes the male children from a month old and upward, as well as the male adults.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Twenty and three thousand; one thousand more than they were Num 3:39. The reason of which different way of numbering, see on Num 3:15.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
62. twenty and three thousandsothat there was an increase of a thousand (Nu3:39).
males from a month old andupward(See on Nu 3:14).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on Nu 26:57]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The Levites were not mustered along with the rest of the tribes of Israel, because the mustering took place with especial reference to the conquest of Canaan, and the Levites were not to receive any territory as a tribe (see at Num 18:20).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(62) Twenty and three thousand.At the former census the number was 22,000 or 22,300 (See Num. 3:39, and Note.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
62. Twenty and three thousand A gain of only seven hundred and twenty-seven since the Sinaitic census. The tribe of Levi was not numbered among the children of Israel, or enrolled in the general census, for two reasons it was made on a different basis, from a month old and upward, and it had no reference to the conquest and division of Canaan, in which Levi had no tribal allotment.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
These Are Those Who Were Numbered By Moses and Eleazar But Among Them Was No One Previously Numbered At Sinai (i.e. of those who came forth from the land of Egypt) (26:62-65a).
Num 26:63
‘These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.’
In Num 26:3-4 Moses and Eleazar commanded the numbering of all who were twenty years old and upwards ‘in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho’ (Num 26:3). Now we learn that their task was completed ‘in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho’, ready for crossing the Jordan when the command came from Yahweh.
Num 26:64
‘But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.’
But while the original numbering had been commanded concerning ‘ the children of Israel who came forth from the land of Egypt’ (Num 26:4), among those who were numbered this time there was not a man present of those who had been previously numbered. Apart from Moses, Caleb and Joshua no one was left who had been in Egypt or who had been numbered at Sinai. Yahweh’s judgment had been complete.
Num 26:65 a
‘For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.’
For they had all died in the wilderness as Yahweh had threatened. Yahweh’s word of judgment had been fulfilled. For it is not only God’s promises which are fulfilled, but also His warnings.
No Male Of The Previous Generation Was Left Except Caleb and Joshua (26:65b).
Num 26:65
‘And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.”
The suggestion may well be that the plague mentioned in Num 26:1 had finally resulted in the death of all who had remained alive of those who had been previously numbered. Now none was left alive apart from Caleb and Joshua.
It is a sad thought that those who were at Sinai had been numbered with such hopes. But sin and unbelief had found them out, and they never attained the promised rest. That was not a question of their eternal destiny, but of what could have been theirs in this life. Instead of enjoying forty years in the land of milk and honey they had endured forty years in the barren wilderness. We too need to beware, lest having been numbered by the Lord, we fail to achieve what He desires for us or to enter His true rest (see Heb 3:7 to Heb 4:11) by being unresponsive to Him. What fools we are if we forfeit both our present and future rewards for the passing pleasures of this life.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
those that: Num 1:49, Num 3:39, Num 4:27, Num 4:48, Num 18:20-24, Num 35:2-8, Deu 10:9, Deu 14:27-29, Deu 18:1, Deu 18:2, Jos 13:14, Jos 13:33, Jos 14:3
they were not: Num 1:49
because: Num 18:20-24, Num 35:2-8, Deu 10:9, Deu 14:27-29, Deu 18:1, Deu 18:2, Jos 13:14, Jos 13:33, Jos 14:3
Reciprocal: Num 3:15 – General Deu 10:22 – as the stars Jos 21:41 – forty