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1 Chronicles 4:41

in 1 Chronicles 4

These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

KJV

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah

on 1 Chronicles 4:34-43

The leaders named here took their growing families to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture. In the days of Hezekiah they destroyed the Hamites who had lived there. Five hundred went on to Mount Seir and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And these written by name,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The habitations - Rather, “the Mehunim” (compare 2Ch 36:7), called also “Maonites” (see Jdg 10:12 note).

The words behind it

26 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.

  • וַיָּבֹ֡אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֵלֶּה֩these

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • הַכְּתוּבִ֨יםwho were written

    haketuvimH3789 →224 times

  • בְּשֵׁמ֜וֹתby names

    beshemotH8034 →864 times

  • בִּימֵ֣י׀in [the] days of

    bimeiH3117 →2304 times

  • יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּHezekiah

    yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֗הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וַיַּכּ֨וּand they struck down

    vaiyakuH5221 →499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אָהֳלֵיהֶ֜םtents their

    ʾoholeihemH168 →345 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַמְּעוּנִ֨יםthe Meunites

    hameinimH4586 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִמְצְאוּ־they were found

    nimtzeu-H4672 →455 times

  • שָׁ֙מָּה֙there <towards>

    shamahH8033 →834 times

  • וַיַּחֲרִימֻם֙and they totally destroyed them

    vaiyacharimumH2763 →

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַיּ֣וֹםthe day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּand they dwelt

    vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • תַּחְתֵּיהֶ֑םin place of them

    tachteihemH8478 →505 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • מִרְעֶ֥הpasture

    mirehH4829 →13 times

  • לְצֹאנָ֖םfor flock[s] their

    letzonamH6629 →274 times

  • שָֽׁם׃[was] there

    shamH8033 →834 times

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

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

    Acts 17:26

    From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:7–8

      Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

    • Genesis 3:20

      And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

    • Malachi 2:10

      Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

    • Romans 5:12–19

      Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

    • 1 Corinthians 15:22

      For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 49:20

    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away;…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 50:45

      Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged…

    • Malachi 1:3–4

      but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

  • Through

    Judges 10:12

    Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

    it leads to

    • Judges 6:3

      Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

Where this verse is studied

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About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.