1-4, 51-65. The terrible visitation of the preceding chapter swept away the survivors of the old generation. See Ps. 95:11. This new census was very important, partly as showing the numbers to which Israel had™grown, and partly as fixing families and clans, preparatory to-.their entrance into Canaan.

The census of the Levites was taken separately, and conducted on different principles. It showed an increase of 1000 since the numbering, forty years before,

3:39. That this was no greater was probably due to Korah’s rebellion.

God is ever writing up his people. Can we claim to be included in the divine enumeration and enrolled in the Lamb’s book of life? Compare Ps. 87:5, 6; Rev. 3:5. We are born to a great ES but’ must claim it by faith.