Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
This verse names the families descended from Jezer and Shillem within the tribe of Asher, called the Jezerites and the Shillemites, among the clans counted in the numbering. It belongs to the second numbering or census of Israel in Numbers 26, taken by Moses at the Lord's command at the end of the forty years of wandering, near the end of the wilderness journey in the plains of Moab just before entry into Canaan. It is the second of the book's two censuses.
The first numbering in Numbers 1 at Sinai was forty years earlier. This census was thus taken thirty-eight years after the census at Sinai. This census is to be compared with the first numbering to note differences among the tribes and how they changed in number during the wilderness years. Some fell off in number or declined, while others increased or prospered, gaining or losing.
The second census showed that all who had been counted in the first census and had rebelled against God had died in the wilderness. Not one man numbered the first time was alive to witness the second numbering except Caleb and Joshua, for every other person had fallen in the wilderness. That failure happened simply because the people were wicked and sin was in their midst, breaking out at last in open, wanton rebellion against the God of heaven. By a solemn oath He excluded them from the land and doomed them to die in the wilderness.
The census thus testified that God had carried out His threatened judgment. It impresses the fact that God will fulfill His threatened judgments. Because Moses' census was taken at the Lord's command, it did not bring the trouble associated with David's unauthorized census.
This verse names the families descended from Jezer and Shillem within the tribe of Asher, called the Jezerites and the Shillemites, among the clans counted in the numbering. It belongs to the second numbering or census of Israel in Numbers 26, taken by Moses at the Lord's command at the end of the forty years of wandering, near the end of the wilderness journey in the plains of Moab just before entry into Canaan. It is the second of the book's two censuses.
The first numbering in Numbers 1 at Sinai was forty years earlier. This census was thus taken thirty-eight years after the census at Sinai. This census is to be compared with the first numbering to note differences among the tribes and how they changed in number during the wilderness years. Some fell off in number or declined, while others increased or prospered, gaining or losing.
The second census showed that all who had been counted in the first census and had rebelled against God had died in the wilderness. Not one man numbered the first time was alive to witness the second numbering except Caleb and Joshua, for every other person had fallen in the wilderness. That failure happened simply because the people were wicked and sin was in their midst, breaking out at last in open, wanton rebellion against the God of heaven. By a solemn oath He excluded them from the land and doomed them to die in the wilderness.
The census thus testified that God had carried out His threatened judgment. It impresses the fact that God will fulfill His threatened judgments. Because Moses' census was taken at the Lord's command, it did not bring the trouble associated with David's unauthorized census.