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1 Chronicles 5:9

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They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

KJV

And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
He inhabited - i. e. Reuben. Eastward the Reubenites inhabited as far as the commencement of the great Syrian Desert, which extended all the way from the river Euphrates to their borders.

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 also settled in the

The desert here is the great Syrian Desert, which Barnes describes as running from the Euphrates to Reuben's eastern border. Wesley reads the Euphrates as marking how far that desert reached. Reuben's settlements stopped at its edge.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Euphrates - From Jordan and the wilderness beyond it unto Euphrates. Or, of the wilderness, which lies towards or reacheth to the river Euphrates, namely, the great wilderness of Kedemoth, Deut. ii, 26, which was extended far and wide towards Euphrates: for that was the eastern border of Reuben's possession, and not Euphrates, to which their habitation never reached.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

with the Hagarites with the Ishmaelites, and by their mother’s name he calls them Hagarites, because they were the sons of Hagar.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 5:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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

13 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְלַמִּזְרָ֗חand to the east

    velamizrachH4217 →74 times

  • יָשַׁב֙he dwelt

    yashavH3427 →1079 times

  • עַד־till

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • לְב֣וֹאto [the] entrance of

    levo'H935 →2568 times

  • מִדְבָּ֔רָה[the] wilderness <towards>

    midbarahH4057 →270 times

  • לְמִן־<to> from

    lemin-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַנָּהָ֖רthe river

    hanaharH5104 →119 times

  • פְּרָ֑תEuphrates

    peratH6578 →

  • כִּ֧יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • מִקְנֵיהֶ֛םlivestock their

    mikneihemH4735 →76 times

  • רָב֖וּthey had increased

    ravuH7235 →227 times

  • בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • גִּלְעָֽד׃Gilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 22:8–9saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”5 worksDeuteronomy 1:7Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.3 worksJoshua 1:4Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.3 worksGenesis 15:18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—2 works

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About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; 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.

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