And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
and these their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.
And these are their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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And these were their names, of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
This was designed for the best, but it proved to have this ill effect that the quality of the persons occasioned the evil report they brought up to be the more credited and the people to be the more influenced by it. Some think that they are all named for the sake of two good ones that were among them, Caleb and Joshua.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches4
These were the sons of Israel:
“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.
So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
