Numbers 10:26 (BSB)

Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,

From Numbers 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 10:26

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 10:11-28: Here is, I. A general account of the removal of the camp of Israel from mount Sinai, before which mountain it had lain now about a year, in which time and place a great deal of memorable business was done.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 10:26: And he said unto him, I will not go,.... Which was a very peremptory answer, he seemed determined, and at a point about it for the present, though it is, probable he afterwards changed his mind, like the young man in the parable, Mat 21:29, but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred; which were prevailing motives with him, his native...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 10:22-28: Num 10:22-28 Behind the sacred things came the banners of Ephraim, with Manasseh and Benjamin (see Num 2:18-24), and Dan with Asher and Naphtali (Num 2:25-31); so that the camp of Dan was the “collector of all the camps according to their hosts,” i.e., formed that division of the army which kept the hosts together.