--- title: "Clarke" description: "Israelites in the plains of Moab, 13. NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVI Verse Numbers 36:2. To give the inheritance of Zelophehad - unto his daughters. — See this case" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/36" --- *Israelites in the plains of Moab*, 13. NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVI Verse [Numbers 36:2](../../../kjv/numbers/36/2). ***To give the inheritance of Zelophehad - unto his**********daughters.*** — See this case spoken of at large on [Numbers 27:1-11](../../../kjv/numbers/27/1-11). Either the first *eleven* verses of [Numbers 27:1-11](../../../kjv/numbers/27/1-11) should come in before this chapter, or this chapter should come in immediately after those eleven verses; they certainly both make parts of the same subject. Here Moses determines that heiresses should marry in their own tribe, that no part of the ancient inheritance might be alienated from the original family. Verse [Numbers 36:6](../../../kjv/numbers/36/6). ***Let them marry to whom they think best*** — Here was latitude sufficient, and yet a salutary and reasonable restraint, which prevented a vexatious mixture of property and possession. Verse [Numbers 36:8](../../../kjv/numbers/36/8). ***Every daughter that possesseth an inheritance*** — This law affected none but *heiresses*; all others were at liberty to marry into any of the other tribes. The priests and Levites, who could have no inheritance, were exempt from the operation of this law. Jehoiada had the king of Judah's daughter to wife, [2 Chronicles 22:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/11). And another priest had for wife one of the daughters of *Barzillai* the *Gileadite*, [Ezra 2:61](../../../kjv/ezra/2/61). "By reason of such marriages," says Mr. Ainsworth, "there might be kindred between Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, who was of the daughters of Aaron, and Mary the virgin, the mother of our Lord, who was of the lineage of David, and tribe of Judah;" [Luke 1:5](../../../kjv/luke/1/5); [Luke 1:36](../../../kjv/luke/1/36); [Luke 3:23-31](../../../kjv/luke/3/23-31). Verse [Numbers 36:11](../../../kjv/numbers/36/11). ***Mahlah, Tirza, &c.*** — For a curious account of these names, [Numbers 27:7](../../../kjv/numbers/27/7); [Numbers 27:7](../../../kjv/numbers/27/7). Verse [Numbers 36:12](../../../kjv/numbers/36/12). ***And their inheritance remained in - the family*** — "By this example, and the law of inheritances in the Holy Land, the people of God," says Ainsworth, "are taught to hold fast their inheritance in his promises, and their right in Christ, which they hold by faith; that as the Father hath made them meet to be partakers of the inheritance among the saints in light, [Colossians 1:12](../../../kjv/colossians/1/12), so they may keep the faith and grace which they have received to the end." Verse [Numbers 36:13](../../../kjv/numbers/36/13). ***These are the commandments, c.*** — See these different terms analyzed and explained, *Clarke "*[Leviticus 26:15](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/15)*"*. THUS ends the book of Numbers, containing a series of astonishing providences and events. Scarcely any piece of history in the sacred writings is better calculated to impress the mind of a serious reader with a sense of the goodness and severity of God. In every transaction his holiness and justice appear in closest union with his benevolence and mercy. From such a *Being* what have the wicked not to fear! From such a *Father* and *Friend* what have the upright not to hope! His *justice* requires him to punish iniquity, but his *mercy* inclines him to pardon all who truly repent and believe in the Son of his love. The journeyings of this people, from the time they left Egypt, exhibit a series of *providential wonders*. Every *where*, and in every *circumstance*, God appears: and yet there is no *circumstance* or *occasion* that does not justify those signal displays of his GRACE and his JUSTICE. The genuine history of God's providence must be sought for in this book alone and as every *occurrence* happened as an *example*, we have authority to conclude that in every case where his own glory and the salvation of man are interested, he will interfere and give the fullest proofs that he is the *same to-day* that he was *yesterday*, and will continue unchangeable for *ever* and *ever*. Reader, are these matters *ensamples* to *thee*? Art *thou*, like the Israelites, come into the plains of Moab, on the very verge of the promised land? Jordan alone separates thee from the promised inheritance. O, watch and pray, that thou come not short of the glory of God. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is *death*; see then that the sting of death, which is *sin*, be extracted from thy soul, that, being justified by Christ's blood, thou mayest be made an heir according to the hope of an eternal life. Amen, amen. "I will bring you into the WILDERNESS of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face, like as I pleaded with your fathers in the WILDERNESS of the land of Egypt. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and bring you into the bond of the covenant," [Ezekiel 20:35-37](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/35-37). "He (Christ) is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions *that were* under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance," [Hebrews 9:15](../../../kjv/hebrews/9/15). SECTIONS In the Book of Numbers, carried on from Leviticus, which ends with the THIRTY-THIRD. The THIRTY-FOURTH, called במדבר *bemidbar*, begins [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1), and ends [Numbers 4:20](../../../kjv/numbers/4/20). The THIRTY-FIFTH, called נשא *nasa*, begins [Numbers 4:21](../../../kjv/numbers/4/21), and ends [Numbers 7:89](../../../kjv/numbers/7/89). The THIRTY-SIXTH, called בהעלתך *behaalothecha*, begins [Numbers 8:1](../../../kjv/numbers/8/1), and ends [Numbers 12:16](../../../kjv/numbers/12/16). The THIRTY-SEVENTH, called שלח *shelach*, begins [Numbers 13:1](../../../kjv/numbers/13/1), and ends [Numbers 15:41](../../../kjv/numbers/15/41). The THIRTY-EIGHTH, called קרח *korach*, begins [Numbers 16:1](../../../kjv/numbers/16/1), and ends [Numbers 18:32](../../../kjv/numbers/18/32). The THIRTY-NINTH, called חקת *chukkath*, begins [Numbers 19:1](../../../kjv/numbers/19/1), and ends [Numbers 22:1](../../../kjv/numbers/22/1). The FORTIETH, called בלק *balak*, begins [Numbers 22:2](../../../kjv/numbers/22/2), and ends [Numbers 25:9](../../../kjv/numbers/25/9). The FORTY-FIRST, called פינחס *pinechas*, begins [Numbers 25:10](../../../kjv/numbers/25/10), and ends [Numbers 30:1](../../../kjv/numbers/30/1). The FORTY-SECOND, called מטות *mattoth*, begins [Numbers 30:2](../../../kjv/numbers/30/2), and ends [Numbers 32:42](../../../kjv/numbers/32/42). The FORTY-THIRD, called מסעי *masey*, begins [Numbers 33:1](../../../kjv/numbers/33/1), and ends [Numbers 36:13](../../../kjv/numbers/36/13). The *number of verses* in this book[Isaiah 1](../../../kjv/isaiah/1)is 1,288, of which ארפח is the symbol: for א *aleph* stands for 1,000, ר, *resh* for 200, פ *phe* for 80, and ח *cheth* for 8. The *middle verse* is *Nu 17:20*. *And the man's rod* *whom I shall choose shall blossom*. (N. B. In our English Bibles this is [Numbers 17:5](../../../kjv/numbers/17/5).) Its *pareshioth*, or larger sections, are 10, expressed by the letters of the word בדד *badad*, alone: *The Lord* ALONE *did lead* *him*, [Deuteronomy 32:12](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/12). ד daleth stands for 4, repeated here, 8, and ב *beth* for 2. Its *sedarim*, or Masoretic sections, are 32, expressed by the word לב *leb, heart*, [Psalms 51:12](../../../kjv/psalms/51/12): *Create in me a clean* HEART, *O God*; in which word ב *beth* stands for 2, and ל *lamed* for 30. Its *chapters* are 36, expressed by the word לו *lu*, *O*! [Deuteronomy 32:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/29): *O that they were wise*! in which word ל *lamed* stands for 30, and ו *vau* for 6. The number of its *open* sections is 92; its *close* or *shut* *sections*, 66; together 158; expressed in the memorial word חלקך *chelkecha: I am* THY PORTION; in which word ק *koph* stands for 100, ל *lamed* for 30, ך *caph* for 20, and ח, *cheth* for 8. Though this sort of notations may appear trifling to some, yet to an upright Jew they were of much consequence. The very technical words used in such cases put him always in mind of something in which the glory of God and the happiness and salvation of his own soul were concerned. See the note at the end of Genesis, [Genesis 50:26](../../../kjv/genesis/50/26); [Genesis 50:26](../../../kjv/genesis/50/26), and see the concluding notes on the Book of Deuteronomy. [Deuteronomy 34:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/34/10); [Deuteronomy 34:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/34/10). Revised and corrected for a new edition, August 4th, 1827. - A. 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