Numbers 34 · Verse 17

Numbers 34:17

These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 34:17, King James Version

Numbers 34:17 in other translations

BSB“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.
WEB“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
ASVThese are the names of the men that shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
YLT‘These are the names of the men who give to you the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun,
DARBYThese are the names of the men who shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
BBEThese are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.
WebsterThese are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

What does Numbers 34:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 34:16-29

16-29. names of the men ... which shall divide the land--This appointment by the Lord before the Jordan tended not only to animate the Israelites faith in the certainty of the conquest, but to prevent all subsequent dispute and discontent, which might have been dangerous in presence of the natives. The nominees were ten princes for the nine and a half tribes, one of them being selected from the western section of…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 34:16-29

God here appoints men to divide the land to them. So sure must they feel of victory and success while God fought for them, that the persons are named who should be intrusted with the dividing of the land.

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Numbers 34:17 in the original Hebrew

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אֵ֚לֶּה'E.lehtheseH428
שְׁמ֣וֹתshe.Mot[are] [the] names ofH8034
הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔יםha.'a.na.Shimthe menH582
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whoH834
יִנְחֲל֥וּyin.cha.Luthey will give as inheritanceH5157
לָכֶ֖םla.Khemto <the> you
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
אֶלְעָזָר֙'el.'a.ZarEleazarH499
הַכֹּהֵ֔ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַvi.ho.Shu.a'and JoshuaH3091
בִּן\־bin-[the] son ofH1121
נֽוּן\׃NunNunH5126

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Cross references for Numbers 34:17

  • Joshua 14:1

    And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

  • Joshua 19:51

    These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

  • Numbers 13:16

    These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

  • Numbers 13:8

    Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
are the names.It is worthy of remark, that Moses does not follow any order hitherto used in arranging the tribes, but places them exactly in the order in which they possessed the land, and according to their fraternal relationship. Judah is first, having the first lot, in the South (Jos ch. 15); and next to him is Simeon, because his inheritance was "within the inheritance of the children of Judah." (Jos 19:1.) Benjamin, the third, had his portion between "Judah and the children of Joseph." (Jos 18:11.) Dan was the fourth, and his lot was westward of Benjamin. (Jos 19:40, 41.) Manasseh and his brother Ephraim had their inheritances behind that of Benjamin. (Jos 16:7.) Next these dwelt Zebulun and Issachar, (Jos 19:10-17;) and then Asher and Naphtali. (Jos 19:24-32.)
Eleazar.
Jos 14:1; 19:51
Joshua.
13:8,16

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Context

  • Numbers 34:16

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Numbers 34:17

    These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Numbers 34:18

    And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

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Numbers 34:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Estos son los nombres de los varones que os aposesionarán la tierra: Eleazar el sacerdote, y Josué hijo de Nun.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ce sont ici les noms des hommes qui vous partageront le pays: Éléazar le sacrificateur, et Josué, fils de Nun.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dies sind die Namen der Männer, welche euch das Land als Erbe austeilen sollen: Eleasar, der Priester, und Josua, der Sohn Nuns.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hæc sunt nomina virorum qui terram vobis divident, Eleazar sacerdos, et Josue filius Nun,