1 Chronicles 5:10
in 1 Chronicles 5During the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands, and they occupied the homes of the Hagrites throughout the region east of Gilead.
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ASV
And in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
KJV
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5
Commentary
8 notes on this verseAnd they dwelt in their tents - The Hagarites were tribes of Nomade, or Scenite, Arabs; people who lived in tents, without any fixed dwellings, and whose property consisted in cattle. The descendants of Reuben extirpated these Hagarites, seized on their property and their tents, and dwelt in their place.
This site's exposition
The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel
on 1 Chronicles 5:3-10
Reuben's line runs to Beerah, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried into exile. One clause sits between the names: During the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites. Wesley and Barnes note gaps in the line, which cannot span the centuries from Saul to Tiglath-pileser as written.
This site's exposition
they waged war against the
The Hagrites were tent-dwelling herders of the eastern desert, as Clarke describes them, and Reuben took their camps and grazing land. Psalm 83:6 names them among Israel's enemies beside the Ishmaelites and Moab. Verses 18 to 22 tell this war in full.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Thus God did for his people as he promised them: he cast out the enemy from before them by little and little, and gave them their land as they had occasion for it, Exod. xxiii. Some great families of that tribe are here named (
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to be in the days of Saul ), or whether that success of one of these tribes animated and excited the other two to join with them in another expedition, is not certain. It seems, though in Saul's time the common interests of the kingdom were weak and low, some of the tribes that acted separately did well for themselves.
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They made war - Thus God did for his people, as he promised them. He cast out the enemy from before them by little and little, and gave them their land as they had occasion for it.
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And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The “Hagarites” or “Hagarenes” are generally regarded as descendants of Hagar, and a distinct branch of the Ishmaelites 1Ch 27:30-31; Psa 83:6. They appear to have been one of the most wealthy 1Ch 5:21 and widely-spread tribes of the Syrian Desert, being found on the side of the Euphrates in contact with the Assyrians, and also in the Hauran, in the neighborhood of Palestine, in contact with the Moabites and Israelites. If identical with the Agraei of the Classical writers, their name may be considered as still surviving in that of the district called Hejer or Hejera in northeastern Arabia, on the borders of the Persian Gulf. A full account of the war is given in 1Ch 5:18-22.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
with the Hagarites with the Ishmaelites, and by their mother’s name he calls them Hagarites, because they were the sons of Hagar.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבִימֵ֣י | uvimei | and in [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| שָׁא֗וּל | shaul | Saul | H7586 → | 402 times |
| עָשׂ֤וּ | ʾasu | they made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִלְחָמָה֙ | milchamah | war | H4421 → | 320 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| הַֽהַגְרִאִ֔ים | hahagriim | the Hagrites | H1905 → | 6 times |
| וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ | vaiyipelu | and they fell | H5307 → | 435 times |
| בְּיָדָ֑ם | beyadam | by hand their | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֙ | vaiyeshevu | and they dwelt | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| בְּאָ֣הֳלֵיהֶ֔ם | beoholeihem | in tents their | H168 → | 345 times |
| עַֽל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| פְּנֵ֖י | penei | [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| מִזְרָ֥ח | mizrach | [the] east | H4217 → | 74 times |
| לַגִּלְעָֽד׃ פ | lagilad | of <the> Gilead | H1568 → | 134 times |
וּבִימֵ֣יand in [the] days of
uvimeiH3117 →2304 times
שָׁא֗וּלSaul
shaulH7586 →402 times
עָשׂ֤וּthey made
ʾasuH6213 →2628 times
מִלְחָמָה֙war
milchamahH4421 →320 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
הַֽהַגְרִאִ֔יםthe Hagrites
hahagriimH1905 →6 times
וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּand they fell
vaiyipeluH5307 →435 times
בְּיָדָ֑םby hand their
beyadamH3027 →1618 times
וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֙and they dwelt
vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times
בְּאָ֣הֳלֵיהֶ֔םin tents their
beoholeihemH168 →345 times
עַֽל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
פְּנֵ֖י[the] face of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
מִזְרָ֥ח[the] east
mizrachH4217 →74 times
לַגִּלְעָֽד׃ פof <the> Gilead
lagiladH1568 →134 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 21:9But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
it leads to
- Galatians 4:29
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
- Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
- Genesis 16:1
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- Psalms 42:10
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Galatians 4:29
Through
Genesis 25:12This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
it leads to
- Psalms 83:6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
- Genesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
- Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make…
- Psalms 83:6
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, Psalm 83:6; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.