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1 Chronicles 5:11

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The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salecah:

KJV

And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
From this passage and from the subsequent account of the Manassites 1Ch 5:23-24, the Gadites extended themselves to the north at the expense of their brethren, gradually occupying a considerable portion of the tract originally allotted to the “half tribe.”

This site's exposition

dwelt over against them

on 1 Chronicles 5:11-17

Gad settled across from Reuben in Bashan, the tableland running to Salchah, and verse 17 says the line was reckoned twice over, once under Jotham king of Judah and once under Jeroboam king of Israel. Barnes reads the double dating as a sign that Judah still exercised some claim over the tribes east of Jordan in that period, even after the kingdom split. Gad's towns reached into the suburbs of Sharon, a name shared with the coastal plain near Joppa but here marking a district of Bashan itself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the children of Gad dwelt over against them--The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1Ch 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate colony.

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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

8 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.

  • וּבְנֵי־and [the] descendants of

    uvenei-H1121 →4930 times

  • גָ֣דGad

    gadH1410 →72 times

  • לְנֶגְדָּ֗םto before them

    lenegdamH5048 →151 times

  • יָֽשְׁב֛וּthey dwelt

    yashevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַבָּשָׁ֖ן<the> Bashan

    habashanH1316 →60 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • סַלְכָֽה׃Salecah

    salkhahH5548 →

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

3 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

    Joshua 13:11

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

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:47–48

      They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

    • 1 Chronicles 2:23

      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.

    • Joshua 12:2–5

      Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of…

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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