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Numbers 34:21

in Numbers 34

Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

KJV

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

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This verse in Numbers 34

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad

on Numbers 34:21-29

The order of the tribes in this list matches none of the other lists in the book, not chapter 1, not chapter 2 and not chapter 26. Clarke reads it as the order in which the tribes came to hold their ground, running from Judah in the south to Naphtali in the north, while Barnes says only that the arrangement belongs to this passage alone. Apart from Caleb, none of these ten men is heard of again in Scripture, and every prince who served in chapter 1 has died under the sentence of 14:29. Verse 29 closes with a commission to divide land none of them had yet stood on, and Joshua 19:51 records Eleazar, Joshua and the heads of the tribes doing it at Shiloh.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

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The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • לְמַטֵּ֣הof [the] tribe of

    lematehH4294 →252 times

  • בִנְיָמִ֔ןBenjamin

    vinyaminH1144 →166 times

  • אֱלִידָ֖דElidad

    ʾelidadH449 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • כִּסְלֽוֹן׃Chislon

    kislonH3692 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 68:27

    There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 9:21

      Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing…

    • Isaiah 11:13

      Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

    • 1 Chronicles 12:16

      Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

    • Psalms 60:7

      Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

  • Through

    Genesis 49:27

    Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

    it leads to

    • Judges 20:25

      That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

    • Judges 20:21

      And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

    • Genesis 46:21

      The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

    • Genesis 35:18

      And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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