Numbers Chapter 27
In Chapter 26, we studied about the new poll of the tribes of Israel. There was an actual loss of 2,770 persons from the initial count to this one. God had told them that all the adults who were twenty years old and upward would die before they entered into Canaan due to their disbelief. (Num 14:29) The only exception was Joshua and Caleb who did not doubt God when they spied out the land.
David Parham
5/24/20252 min read
Numbers Chapter 27
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Introduction: In last week’s lesson, we studied about the new poll of the tribes of Israel. There was an actual loss of 2,770 persons from the initial count to this one. God had told them that all the adults who were twenty years old and upward would die before they entered into Canaan due to their disbelief. (Num 14:29) The only exception was Joshua and Caleb who did not doubt God when they spied out the land.
I. Israel Questions Inheritance for Daughters
Num 27:1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Num 27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Num 27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Num 27:4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
We read about how that the various tribes would inherit based upon their numbers in last week’s lesson. These five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh come before Moses and Eleazar the priest and plead their case. They explain how that their father came with the nation of Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness, and died while wandering in the desert, and was never blessed with a son.
They question why their father’s name should be done away with due to not having a son. They ask for a possession of the land for the five daughters. They pointed out also that Zelophehad was not in the rebellion of Korah and died in his own sin.