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1 Chronicles 5:23

in 1 Chronicles 5

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).

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

they increased from Bashan

on 1 Chronicles 5:23-24

Half the tribe of Manasseh held the ground from Bashan north to Mount Hermon under its several names, Baal-hermon and Senir, and the chapter names seven heads of households as mighty men of valor and famous men. Gill reads the growth from Bashan as expansion within the territory Moses already assigned the half tribe, not a fresh conquest. The list stays short because the tribe's own story in this book is short, two verses of standing before the transgression that closes the chapter.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

In a glorious victory over the Hagarites, so the Ishmaelites were now called, to remind them that they were the sons of the bond-woman, that was cast out. We are not told when this victory was obtained: whether it be the same with that of the Reubenites (which is said

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

“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.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֗יand [the] descendants of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • חֲצִי֙[the] half of

    chatziH2677 →125 times

  • שֵׁ֣בֶט[the] tribe of

    shevetH7626 →190 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֔הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • יָשְׁב֖וּthey dwelt

    yashevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּאָ֑רֶץin the land

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִבָּשָׁ֞ןfrom Bashan

    mibashanH1316 →60 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • בַּ֧עַלBaal

    baalH1179 →

  • חֶרְמ֛וֹןHermon

    chermonH1179 →

  • וּשְׂנִ֥ירand Senir

    usenirH8149 →

  • וְהַר־and [the] mountain of

    vehar-H2022 →546 times

  • חֶרְמ֖וֹןHermon

    chermonH2768 →

  • הֵ֥מָּהthey

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • רָבֽוּ׃they multiplied

    ravuH7235 →227 times

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

Related verses

6 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.

Deuteronomy 3:9which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—5 worksDeuteronomy 3:8–9At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—4 worksSong of Solomon 4:8Come 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 of the leopards.4 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 13:29–31This is what Moses had given to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh:2 worksPsalms 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.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

    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.

    it 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…

    it 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,

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

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