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1 Chronicles 2:23

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But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

KJV

And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Rather, “And Geshur and Aram (i. e. the Geshurites Deu 3:14 and Syrians) took the villages of Jair from them:” recovered, that is, from the new settlers the places which Jair had conquered. All these belonged to the sons of Machir - Rather, “All these were sons of Machir,” i. e. Segub and Jair, with their descendants, were reckoned sons of Machir, rather than sons of Hezron, although only descended from Machir on the mother’s side.

This site's exposition

begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth

on 1 Chronicles 2:18-24

Caleb's line through Hezron runs to Hur and then to Uri and Bezaleel, the same three-generation descent Exodus 31:2 gives for the craftsman the LORD filled with skill to raise the tabernacle, so the tribe that produces the king also produces the man who first built the pattern David will later hand to Solomon. Hezron himself fathered a son in old age, Ashur the father of Tekoa, after the text has already recorded his death in Caleb-ephratah, an order the record leaves standing rather than explains.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Sons of Machir - Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son- in-law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was betwixt them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), we had an account of in Num. xxxii. 41 ; and, it is supposed, they were long after the conquest of Canaan. The Jews say, Hezron married his third wife when he was sixty years old (

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And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

he took--rather "he had taken." This statement is accounting for his acquisition of so large a territory; he got it by right of conquest from the former possessors. Kenath--This place, along with its group of surrounding villages, was gained by Nobah, one of Jair's officers sent by him to capture it (Nu 32:1, 2).

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The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיִּקַּ֣חand he took

    vaiyikachH3947 →966 times

  • גְּשֽׁוּר־Geshur

    geshur-H1650 →

  • וַ֠אֲרָםand Aram

    vaaromH758 →143 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חַוֹּ֨תHavvoth

    chavotH2334 →

  • יָאִ֧ירJair

    yairH2334 →

  • מֵאִתָּ֛םfrom with <the> them

    meitamH854 →929 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • קְנָ֥תKenath

    kenatH7079 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנֹתֶ֖יהָdaughters its

    benoteihaH1323 →588 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֣יםsixty

    shishimH8346 →59 times

  • עִ֑ירciti[es]

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֕לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֖י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • מָכִ֥ירMakir

    makhirH4353 →22 times

  • אֲבִי־[the] father of

    ʾavi-H1 →1212 times

  • גִלְעָֽד׃Gilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

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

Related verses

9 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 13:30The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;2 worksNumbers 32:41–42Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.2 worksDeuteronomy 3:14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.2 works2 Samuel 13:38After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.2 worksJoshua 13:13but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.2 works1 Chronicles 3:2the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Samuel 27:8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)2 worksJoshua 13:11also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—2 worksJoshua 17:1Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:41

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

    • 2 Samuel 13:37

      Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    • 2 Samuel 10:6

      When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…

    • 2 Samuel 3:3

      his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

    • Joshua 13:13

      but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

  • Through

    Joshua 13:13

    but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:11

      also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

    • Joshua 23:12–13

      For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

  • Through

    Joshua 13:30

    The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:26

      the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of 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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