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Numbers 13:4

in Numbers 13

and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

KJV

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

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This verse in Numbers 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran

on Numbers 13:3-4

The twelve men sent are leaders of the Israelites. Calvin says their names are written down in perpetual remembrance, since ten are named only to be condemned by what they say at verse 31.

This site's exposition

Shammua son of Zaccur

Reuben's man leads the roll and is never mentioned again. Numbers 32:8-9 has Moses recall this sending from Kadesh-barnea when Reuben and Gad ask to settle east of the Jordan. Calvin says the names stand in perpetual remembrance of the ten men's ignominy.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And these were their names, of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וְאֵ֖לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • שְׁמוֹתָ֑ם[are] names their

    shemotamH8034 →864 times

  • לְמַטֵּ֣הfor [the] tribe of

    lematehH4294 →252 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֔ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • שַׁמּ֖וּעַShammua

    shamua'H8051 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • זַכּֽוּר׃Zaccur

    zakurH2139 →

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

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 13 →

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Calvin, Commentaries; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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