HIS BIRTHRIGHT] This was a portion of the inheritance, twice as great as that given to each of the other sons. The two children of Joseph together received the share which, in right of birth, should have been Reuben's, each being placed on a level with their uncles, the sons of Jacob: cp. Genesis 48... [ Continue Reading ]
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter gives lists of the descendants of Reuben, the families of Gad, and the families of the eastern division of Manasseh.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR JUDAH PREVAILED, etc.] This v. explains why Judah's descendants were described before those of his elder brother Reuben: he was the ancestor of the royal line.... [ Continue Reading ]
TILGATH-PILNESER] i.e. Tiglath-pileser, whose invasion is described in 2 Kings 15:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Were_ THE CHIEF, JEIEL, etc.] better, 'were, Jeiel the chief,' etc: cp. the expression in 1 Chronicles 5:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
AROER, etc.] All the places named in this v. were E. of the Dead Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reubenites touched the Syrian desert between the Euphrates and Palestine.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAGARITES] Arabian tribes who traced their descent to Hagar through Ishmael: cp. 1 Chronicles 5:19 with 1 Chronicles 1:31. THE EAST _land_ OF GILEAD] RV 'The _land_ east of Gilead,' i.e. in the Syrian desert.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN GILEAD IN BASHAN] perhaps, better, 'in Gilead, in Jabesh' (1 Samuel 11:1). Bashan was given to Manasseh (Joshua 13:30). SUBURBS] better, 'pasture lands,' and so elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEROBOAM] i.e. Jeroboam II, whose reign was contemporaneous with at least part of Jotham's reign.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CAPTIVITY] i.e. the deportation of the eastern tribes by Tiglath-pileser: cp. 1 Chronicles 5:6; 1 Chronicles 5:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUL.. AND.. TILGATH-PILNESER] The two names denote the same person, Pul being the proper name of a usurper who in 745 took possession of the Assyrian crown and assumed the title of Tiglath-pileser III (after an earlier sovereign). HALAH, etc.] In 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6 these are the places to w... [ Continue Reading ]