(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Numbers 26:1–4, “And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.”
Israel escaped from slavery in Egypt when the Lord miraculously intervened. The Lord promised to take them into the Promised Land and Moses was told to take a census of all the people so that they could share the Promised Land freely among all the people. However, those people refused to go into the Land and take possession because they were afraid of giants. The Lord waited for all those people to die and promised the next generation that they could go into the Land. During the time in the Wilderness, there were rebellions and plagues and those people died as the Lord promised. Now that they were ready to go into the Promised Land, it was essential that another census be taken so that they would know how many people would need to have their own plot of land. The Lord waited till Israel were just on the borders of the Promised Land and then he ordered that the census be taken. This way there would be no time for the numbers to change.
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