I gave Gilead to Machir.
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I gave Gilead to Machir.
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And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
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And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 3:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 32:39-40 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
- Genesis 50:23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
- Numbers 26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
- Joshua 17:1-3 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida. These were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families. But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
- Joshua 22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. The half part of Gilead, as appears from…
i.e. The half part of Gilead, as appears from Deu 3:12,13. See Poole "Num 32:40". Unto Machir, i.e. unto the children of Machir son of Manasseh, for Machir was now dead.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I gave Gilead unto Machir. The son of…
And I gave Gilead unto Machir. The son of Manasseh; not to him personally, who cannot be thought to have been living at this time, but to his posterity, to the Machirites; see Num 32:40.
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Deuteronomy 3:16
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deu 3:16And unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites,.... The tribes of Reuben and Gad:
I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon: see Deu 3:12.
half the valley and the border; or rather half the river, the river Arnon; and so it is rendered "the middle of the river", in Jos 12:2 and so here the middle of the torrent by the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions, and by Onkelos:
even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; beyond which the land given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad reached not; see Deu 2:37.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Gilead - That is, the half part of Gilead.…
Gilead - That is, the half part of Gilead. To Machir - That is, unto the children of Machir, son of Manasseh, for Machir was now dead.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 3:15-16. Gilead — That is, the half part…
Deu 3:15-16. Gilead — That is, the half part of Gilead. To Machir —
That is, unto the children of Machir, son of Manasseh, for Machir was now dead. Half the valley — Or rather, to the middle of the river: for the word rendered half, signifies commonly middle, and the same Hebrew word means both a valley and a brook, or river. And this sense is agreeable to the truth, that their land extended from Gilead unto Arnon, and, to speak exactly, to the middle of that river; for as that river was the border between them and others, so one half of it belonged to them, as the other half did to others; see Jos 12:2, where the same thing is expressed in the same words, in the Hebrew, though our translators render them there, from the middle of the river, and here, half of the valley.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Machir’s posterity was settled in the same part of…
Machir’s posterity was settled in the same part of Galaad. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I gave Gilead unto Machir--It was only the half…
I gave Gilead unto Machir--It was only the half of Gilead (Deu 3:12-13) which was given to the descendants of Machir, who was now dead.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Machir — He was the eldest son of…
15. Machir — He was the eldest son of Manasseh. His name is put for the tribe.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. And I gave Gilead unto Machir] Not irreconcilable…
15. And I gave Gilead unto Machir] Not irreconcilable with Deu_3:12 where the N. half of Gile‘ad is assigned to half-Manasseh, for Machir was held to have been the first and only son of Manasseh, and, apparently, is even taken for all Manasseh (Jdg_5:14; Num_26:29?). Yet there is force in Dillm.’s contention that the author who had just written 12 f. could hardly have immediately added the variant Deu_3:15; hence the latter is reasonably taken as, like Deu_3:14, a later insertion derived from Num_32:40.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Cf. Num_32:40; 1Ch_2:22
Cf. Num_32:40; 1Ch_2:22
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues to speak to the people of Israel.
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I gave
Here "I" refers to Moses.
to Machir
Machir was the son of Manasseh. He had died before Moses gave this land. The name is a metonym for the descendants of the person. AT: "to the descendants of Machir" (See: How to Translate Names)
the Valley of the Arnon
This is the name of the valley of the Arnon River. It creates the border between Moab and the Amorites. See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 2:24. (See: How to Translate Names)
Jabbok River
This is the name of a river that created the border between Sihon's land and the land of the Ammonites. See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 2:37. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Gilead
Reuben
Gad
descend
Ammon
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 3:15 Makir was a clan in the tribe of…
3:15 Makir was a clan in the tribe of Manasseh (Num 26:29) to which Jair was related (1 Chr 2:21-23). The clan of Makir settled south of Bashan in the northern part of Gilead (see Deut 3:13).
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