King James Version
What Does Numbers 26:1 Mean?
“And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,”
Context
1
And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English ReadersXXVI.
(1) **And it came to pass after the plague . . . —**The plague probably destroyed the remnant of the generation which had come out of Egypt, and which had been numbered in the wilderness of Sinai.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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