Numbers 26:53 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵³Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Numbers 26:53 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 14:1
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Psalms 105:44
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 52-56)

If any ask why such a particular account is kept of the tribes, and families, and numbers, of the people of Israel, here is an answer for them; as they were multiplied, so they were portioned, not by common providence, but by promise; and, for the support of the honour of divine revelation, God will have the fulfilling of the promise taken notice of both in their increase and in their inheritance.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 53)

53. the land shall be divided according to the number of names--The portion of each tribe was to be greater or less, according to its populousness.