Inheritance Numbers 26

Numbers 26:54-55 "To many thou shalt give the more inheritance and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him. Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit."

In this chapter Israel is again numbered. Only two of the original remain. Caleb and Joshua. Of course Moses is still there but will not enter Canaan. When Israel failed to enter the land several chapters ago, because of unbelief, God told them they would die in the wilderness and the little ones that Israel said would be prey (Chapter 14: v28-33)for the enemy, would inherit. It has now come true.

Here is how the numbers stack up if my reading is correct:

Before the wilderness journey: 603,550 men of war age plus women and under 20(Numbers 1:46)
and 22,000 Levites (Numbers 3:39)

After the wilderness journey and several battles: 601,720 men of war age plus women and under 20 (v51)
and 23,000 Levites

So, that would be a little over a thousand less of war age men and a thousand more of the Levites.

V64 "But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord had said of them, The shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun."

Jacob and twelve brothers when down to Egypt with their families. Now at the door of Canaan is a great multitude. The original multitude who well remembered the slave years of Egypt would not fight but these wilderness hardened men will fight.

Psalm 36:7 "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings."