1 Chronicles 5:23 BSB

1 Chronicles 5:23

Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).

BSB

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ASV

And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon.

KJV

And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal–hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land,.... Not in the land of the Hagarites, but in the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond Jordan, given them by Moses.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

“Baal-Hermon,” “Senir” Deu 3:9, and “Mount Hermon,” are here not so much three names of the one great snow-clad eminence in which the Anti-Lebanon terminates toward the south, as three parts of the mountain - perhaps the “three summits” in which it terminates.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֗י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] descendants of	H1121 →
חֲצִי֙	cha.Tzi	[the] half of	H2677 →
שֵׁ֣בֶט	She.vet	[the] tribe of	H7626 →
מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה	me.na.Sheh	Manasseh	H4519 →
יָשְׁב֖וּ	ya.she.Vu	they dwelt	H3427 →
בָּאָ֑רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →
מִבָּשָׁ֞ן	mi.ba.Shan	from Bashan	H1316 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
בַּ֧עַל	Ba.'al	Baal	H1179 →
חֶרְמ֛וֹן	cher.Mon	Hermon	H1179 →
וּשְׂנִ֥יר	u.se.Nir	and Senir	H8149 →
וְהַר־	ve.har-	and [the] mountain of	H2022 →
חֶרְמ֖וֹן	cher.Mon	Hermon	H2768 →
הֵ֥מָּה	He.mah	they	H1992 →
רָבֽוּ׃	ra.Vu	they multiplied	H7235 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 133:3
It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:8
  The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- Leviticus 25:21
  But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
- Psalms 42:8
  The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- Deuteronomy 4:48
  extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
- 1 John 5:11
  And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Through
Song of Solomon 4:8
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:9
  which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
- Song of Solomon 2:13
  The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
- Psalms 45:10
  Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

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