Numbers 34:17

17 “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 34:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 34:17

These are the names of the men which shall divide the land
unto you
Or "inherit the land for you" ^F26; that is, as Jarchi interprets it, they were to take possession of it in their name and stead, as their representatives, and then distribute it unto them, or divide it to be inherited by them; but whatever may be said for the princes of the tribes, as acting for their respective tribes, and representing them, the same cannot be said of the two first named, as follow:

Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun;
the one the principal person in ecclesiastical affairs, and the other in civil ones; to divide the land being partly a sacred work, as it was a type of the heavenly Canaan, and a civil one, as it concerned the present welfare of the people of Israel; and both were types of Christ, the priest upon his throne, who is both priest and King; who, as the one, gives a right unto it, and, as the other, introduces into it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mkl wlxny) "haereditabunt vobis", Montanus; "qui haereditario jure accipient pro vobis", Tigurine not.

Numbers 34:17 In-Context

15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

16 Then the LORD said to Moses,

17 “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

18 Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

19 These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;