Numbers 26:42 (BSB)

These were the descendants of Dan by their clans: The Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the clans of Dan.

From Numbers 26. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 26:42

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 26:5-51: This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of the several sons...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 26:42: Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot,.... That the division might appear to be according to the determination and will of God, and not left to the judgment and discretion of the chief magistrate, though bound by the above rule: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit; that is, according as to whatsoever name of a tribe such...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 26:42-43: Num 26:42-43 The descendants of Dan formed only one family, named from a son of Dan, who is called Shuham here, but Hushim in Gen 46:23; though this family no doubt branched out into several smaller families, which are not named here, simply because this list contains only the leading families into which the tribes were divided.