Numbers 32 - Introduction
The record of the last war to the east of the Jordan is followed by the assignment of the lands already conquered to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to certain families of the tribe of Manasseh.... [ Continue Reading ]
The record of the last war to the east of the Jordan is followed by the assignment of the lands already conquered to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to certain families of the tribe of Manasseh.... [ Continue Reading ]
JAZER - Compare the marginal reference. This district, although included in the land of Gilead, seems to have had special attractions for the Israelite settlers. All travelers in Gilead, the modern Belka, bear witness to its richness as compared with the country to the west of the Jordan. Its genera... [ Continue Reading ]
See Numbers 32:34 notes.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR FATHERS - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Numbers 26:64. KADESH-BARNEA - See Numbers 13:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KENEZITE - Kenaz Genesis 36:11 was the name of one of the “dukes of Edom:” but Israel and Edom were of kindred origin, and the use of similar names by the two peoples is not surprising.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT - literally, “know ye your sin that it will find you out.” Moses implies that their sin would eventually bring its own punishment along with it.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE THE LORD - i. e., immediately in front of the sacred tokens of the Lord’s presence; compare Numbers 10:17 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
HALF THE TRIBE OF MANASSEH - That is, (compare Numbers 32:39; Joshua 17:1) the families of Machir. Moses, when assigning to the pastoral tribes the inheritance which they desired, appropriated to these Manassites especially the district they had already subdued, as a reward for their valour and expl... [ Continue Reading ]
The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Numbers 21:19. The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the Gadites, and assigned by Joshua to the Reubenites, was eventually recaptured by the Moabites, in whose ha... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reubenites established themselves more compactly than the Gadites. Elcalch (el-’Al) a mile to the northeast; Nebo (Nebbeh) probably three miles to the southwest; Baal-meon (Main) nearly two miles to the south; Kirjathaim (Kureiyat?): and Shibmah, more properly Sibmah, famous at a later period fo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF MACHIR - Machir, the son of Manasseh, was long since dead: even his sons had been brought up upon Joseph’s knees Genesis 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... [ Continue Reading ]
The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror of Argob Deuteronomy 3:14 - gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luke 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighbor... [ Continue Reading ]
KENATH - Now Kenawat, an important site near the southern extremity of the tract el-Lejah, and on the western slopes of the mountains of the Hauran. The name given to it by its conqueror, as in other cases, fell ere long into disuse, and the old name has held its ground to this day. The notices, bot... [ Continue Reading ]