King James Version
What Does Numbers 26:61 Mean?
“And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.”
Context
59
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60
And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
61
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
62
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary**Verses 57-62**
Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua.
Matthew Henry (1662–1714). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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