The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
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The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
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Passages linked to Numbers 32:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 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 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.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Took it, i.e. part of it; or Gilead is…
Took it, i.e. part of it; or Gilead is here taken more strictly. See Poole on "Num 32:29"; Gen 31:21; Deu 3:12,13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of…
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh,.... That is, to the children of Machir, who went and took it; though some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that Machir himself was now alive, and that it was given to him, but that is not probable; for, supposing him to be living when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, all that came from thence, who were twenty years old and upwards, died in the wilderness, excepting two, see Num 32:11,
and he dwelt therein; that is, the family of the Macharite; see Num 26:29.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The children of Machir - Machir, the son of…
The children of Machir - Machir, the son of Manasseh, was long since dead: even his sons had been brought up upon Joseph’s knees Gen 50:23. But the renown acquired by his descendants raised his family almost to the dignity of a tribe; and the Machirites are in the next verse styled Machir, just as the children of Judah or of Ephraim are often spoken of as Judah or Ephraim. So in Jdg 5:14 Machir is coupled with Ephraim and Zebulun.
Went - i. e., “had gone:” the statement is preparatory to the ensuing record of the grant to them of the land they had won.
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Gilead - More strictly part of north Gilead; which, though inhabited by the Amorites, had belonged to the kingdom of Og. Gilead was the district from which had sprung the ancestress of the Machirites (compare 1Ch 7:14).
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Gilead--now Jelud.
Gilead--now Jelud.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 39. Machir was the son of Manasseh by an…
39. Machir was the son of Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. 1Ch_7:14, and Gen_46:20, Seventy.
The Amorite — Literally, the highlanders in contrast with the low-landers, the Canaanites. Jos_3:10, note.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 39. The individual action of clans (here and in…
39. The individual action of clans (here and in Num_32:41 f.) is similar to that described in Jdg_1:3; Jdg_1:22. See prelim. note.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (39) And the children of Machir the son of…
(39) And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went . . . —Better, Now the children of Machir the son of Manasseh had gone to Gilead, and taken it, &c. (See Note on Num_32:33.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The children of Machir. The relation of the Beni-Machir…
The children of Machir. The relation of the Beni-Machir to the tribe of Manasseh is obscure, because all the Manassites were descended from Machir. In the absence of any direct information, we can only guess at the nature of the tie which united the Beni-Machir as a family, and kept them distinct from the other Manassite families. It is evident from their history that they formed a sub-tribe powerful enough to have a name of their own in Israel. (cf. verse 40 and Jud_1:5:14, and see note on verse 41) Went to Gilead. This would seem to refer to the expedition briefly recorded in Num_21:33. It is mentioned here out of place, in the simple historical style of the Pentateuch, because the gift of Gilead to Machir grew out of its conquest by Machir. The name Gilead is again used in a very vague sense, for the territory actually allotted to Machir was rather in Bashan than in Gilead proper.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 32:39-42 Three clans of Manasseh conquered part of Gilead…
32:39-42 Three clans of Manasseh conquered part of Gilead and Bashan (cp. Deut 3:13-15; Josh 13:29-31). The location of Nobah remains uncertain (cp. Judg 8:11). • Towns of Jair: Hebrew Havvoth-jair (cp. Deut 3:14; Josh 13:30; Judg 10:4; 1 Kgs 4:13; 1 Chr 2:21-23).
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