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民数記 26:55

55 ただし地は、くじをもって分け、その父祖の部族の名にしたがって、それを継がなければならない。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaan;   Lot, the;   Thompson Chain Reference - Casting Lots;   Lots, Casting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lots;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Tribes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Magic;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Farm;   Lot;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lot (2);   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lots;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lots, Casting;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lot;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Inheritance;   Name;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Lots;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by lot: Numbers 26:56, Numbers 33:54, Numbers 34:13, Joshua 11:23, Joshua 14:2, Joshua 17:14, Joshua 18:6, Joshua 18:10, Joshua 18:11, Joshua 19:1, Joshua 19:10, Joshua 19:17, Joshua 19:24, Joshua 19:32, Joshua 19:40, Proverbs 16:33, Proverbs 18:18, Acts 1:26, Colossians 1:12, Revelation 7:4-8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:8 - cast lots Numbers 36:2 - The Lord commanded Joshua 15:1 - This then was the lot Judges 21:17 - an inheritance

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot,.... That the division might appear to be according to the determination and will of God, and not left to the judgment and discretion of the chief magistrate, though bound by the above rule:

according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit; that is, according as to whatsoever name of a tribe such a part or portion of the land comes up by lot, that shall their inheritance be: Jarchi says, the names of the twelve tribes were written on twelve scrolls of parchment, and twelve borders or limits of land on twelve others, and they were mixed together in an urn, and the prince put his hand into it and took two scrolls; a scroll came up with the name of a tribe, and a scroll with a border or limit expressed on it; and the lot, he says, was by the Holy Ghost, for Eleazar, at the same time, was clothed with Urim and Thummim s; so that the people were certain that the disposition and division of the land was of God; but there were but nine tribes and a half, among whom the land of Canaan was divided, two tribes and a half settled on the other side Jordan, namely, the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

s Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Biccurim, c. 1. sect. 5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 26:55. The land shall be divided by lot — The word גורל goral, translated lot, is supposed by some to signify the stone or pebble formerly used for the purpose of what we term casting lots. The word [Anglo-Saxon] hlot is Anglo-Saxon, from [Anglo-Saxon] to divide, or portion out, i. e., fortuitously: it answers to the Greek κληρος, which some think comes from κλαω to break; because the lot, being a sort of appeal to God, ("The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord," Proverbs 16:33,) broke off all contentions and litigations relative to the matter in dispute. From this original division of the promised land by lot to the children of Israel, all portions, appointments, offices, shares, or divisions in spiritual and ecclesiastical matters, were termed lots. So in the New Testament, the word κληρος, lot, is used to signify a portion of spiritual blessedness, and κληρονομια, a division by lot, an inheritance; and κληροι the lotted or appointed persons to different works, shares, c. hence our word clergy, κληροι, persons appointed by lot to a lot, portion, or inheritance; see the case of Matthias, Acts 1:26. Persons thus appointed were by accommodation termed inheritors, because originally, when there could be no claims of exclusive right, all lands where a wandering tribe chose to take up its residence were divided by lot, as the promised land in the case before us. So Judah says to Simeon his brother, Judges 1:3: "Come up with me into my lot." And as God was ever supposed to be the whole disposer in such matters, whatever fell out in the course of God's providence was called a lot. "This is the lot of them that rob us;" Isaiah 17:14. "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter;" Acts 8:21. A lot in the promised land was evidently typical of a place in eternal glory. "That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance (κληρον, a lot) among them that are sanctified;" Acts 26:18. "Who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance, κληρου, of the lot) of the saints in light;" Colossians 1:12. "Which is the earnest of our inheritance, (κληρονομιας, of our allotted portion;") Ephesians 1:4. "What is the riches of the glory of his inheritance," (κληρονομιας, allotted portion;) Ephesians 1:18. As therefore the promised land was divided by lot to the believing Israelites, God determining the lot as he saw good, none of the people having any claim on or right to it; so the kingdom of heaven is a lot given by the mere good will of God to them that believe and obey him; for as unbelief and disobedience threw 600,000 people out of the inheritance of the promised land; so none who disbelieve God's word, and rebel against his authority, shall ever enter into the kingdom of heaven. - See Ainsworth. These things happened unto them for examples: see then, reader, that thou fall not after the same example of unbelief.


 
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