Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 27:4

4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

As it will be, if it be not preserved by an inheritance given to us in his name and for his sake. Hence some gather, that the first son of each of these heiresses was called by their fathers name, by vertue of that law Deut. 25. 6. whereby the brothers first son was to bear the name of his elder brother whose widow he married.

In the land of Canaan upon the division of it, which, though not yet conquered, they concluded would certainly be so, and thereby gave glory to God by believing.

Marginal references: Heb. diminished.