These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
This verse belongs to the second numbering of Israel in Numbers 26, answering to the first numbering in Numbers 1, taken in the plains of Moab at the end of the forty years in the wilderness just before entering Canaan. It was taken nearly forty years after leaving Egypt, forty years after the first census in Numbers 1 and thirty-eight years after the census at Sinai. It records the families of Manasseh and those numbered of them as 52,700 adult males. It belongs to the census Moses took at the Lord's command, one of two authorized censuses that did not bring the trouble associated with David's census.
The second census is to be compared with the first census in Numbers 1 to see how the tribes' numbers changed, with some tribes decreasing and others increasing. Comparing the two censuses shows the differences in the tribes' numbers during the wilderness journey. Compared with 32,200 soon after leaving Egypt, Manasseh's count records an increase of 20,500, almost two-thirds growth, the most pronounced growth of any tribe, while the total number of adult males in the nation changed little from 603,550 to 601,730.
The host counted the second time contained no man counted the first time except Caleb and Joshua, for every other person had fallen in the wilderness. The count proves that God's threatened judgment against rebellion was fully carried out, impressing the fact that God will fulfill his threatened judgments. The failure came because the people were wicked, cherishing sin in the heart until it broke out in open, wanton rebellion against God, for which God by solemn oath excluded that generation from the promised land and doomed them to die in the wilderness. The second numbering therefore warns those on whom the ends of the world are come that strong hope of entering God's kingdom and great tokens of God's favor, presence, and willingness to save do not secure entrance if sin is carried in the heart, for cherished sin inevitably brings ruin.
This verse belongs to the second numbering of Israel in Numbers 26, answering to the first numbering in Numbers 1, taken in the plains of Moab at the end of the forty years in the wilderness just before entering Canaan. It was taken nearly forty years after leaving Egypt, forty years after the first census in Numbers 1 and thirty-eight years after the census at Sinai. It records the families of Manasseh and those numbered of them as 52,700 adult males. It belongs to the census Moses took at the Lord's command, one of two authorized censuses that did not bring the trouble associated with David's census.
The second census is to be compared with the first census in Numbers 1 to see how the tribes' numbers changed, with some tribes decreasing and others increasing. Comparing the two censuses shows the differences in the tribes' numbers during the wilderness journey. Compared with 32,200 soon after leaving Egypt, Manasseh's count records an increase of 20,500, almost two-thirds growth, the most pronounced growth of any tribe, while the total number of adult males in the nation changed little from 603,550 to 601,730.
The host counted the second time contained no man counted the first time except Caleb and Joshua, for every other person had fallen in the wilderness. The count proves that God's threatened judgment against rebellion was fully carried out, impressing the fact that God will fulfill his threatened judgments. The failure came because the people were wicked, cherishing sin in the heart until it broke out in open, wanton rebellion against God, for which God by solemn oath excluded that generation from the promised land and doomed them to die in the wilderness. The second numbering therefore warns those on whom the ends of the world are come that strong hope of entering God's kingdom and great tokens of God's favor, presence, and willingness to save do not secure entrance if sin is carried in the heart, for cherished sin inevitably brings ruin.