Numbers 26:51 (BSB)

These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.

From Numbers 26. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 26:51

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 26:51: 51. These are the numbered of the children of Israel. By this sum total, what I have above adverted to is more clearly shewn, that amidst so many losses, and especially after the terrible vengeance which God had recently executed, the race of Abraham was preserved in an incredible manner, so that the fulfillment of the promise might not be brought about only towards a small body of persons.
  • 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 26:51: But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered..... About thirty eight years before this time: this, as Aben Ezra observes, respects the numbering of the Israelites, not of the Levites; for there were some of the tribe of Levi numbered then who were living, as Eleazar, and very probably Ithamar, and perhaps some few more, though...
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 26:51: These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. (f) This is the third time that they are numbered.