Numbers 34:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

Numbers 34:18 —

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Numbers 1:4-16
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 16-29)

God here appoints commissioners for the dividing of the land to them. The conquest of it is taken for granted, though as yet there was never a stroke struck towards it. Here is no nomination of the generals and commanders-in-chief that should carry on the war; for they were to get the land in possession, not by their own sword or bow, but by the power and favour of God; and so confident must they…

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

(vv. 18)

16-29. names of the men ... which shall divide the land--This appointment by the Lord before the Jordan tended not only to animate the Israelites faith in the certainty of the conquest, but to prevent all subsequent dispute and discontent, which might have been dangerous in presence of the natives. The nominees were ten princes for the nine and a half tribes, one of them being selected from the we…