Deuteronomy 3:15
in Deuteronomy 3To Machir I gave Gilead,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
KJV
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 3
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
I gave Gilead unto Machir--It was only the half of Gilead (De 3:12, 13) which was given to the descendants of Machir, who was now dead.
This site's exposition
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob
on Deuteronomy 3:14-15
Jair takes Argob and names it after himself, Havvoth-jair, "by which it is called to this day". Albert Barnes observes that "to this day" can cover any length of time and by itself cannot date the sentence.
This site's exposition
To Machir I gave Gilead
The Gilead given here is the northern half, since verse 12 has given the southern half, as Jamieson, Fausset and Brown point out. Machir was the father of Gilead, so the region and the clan share a name at Numbers 26:29. John Wesley says Machir was dead by this time.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Gilead - That is, the half part of Gilead. To Machir - That is, unto the children of Machir, son of Manasseh, for Machir was now dead.
And I gave Gilead unto Machir. The son of Manasseh; not to him personally, who cannot be thought to have been living at this time, but to his posterity, to the Machirites; see Num 32:40.
And perhaps Jacob's prediction of the smallness of that tribe was now accomplished in these divisions and subdivisions. Observe that Bashan is here called the land of the giants, because it had been in their possession, but Og was the last of them.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְמָכִ֖יר | ulemakhir | and to Makir | H4353 → | |
| נָתַ֥תִּי | natati | I gave | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ | hagilad | <the> Gilead | H1568 → | 134 times |
וּלְמָכִ֖ירand to Makir
ulemakhirH4353 →
נָתַ֥תִּיI gave
natatiH5414 →2011 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַגִּלְעָֽד׃<the> Gilead
hagiladH1568 →134 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Genesis 50:23He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
it leads to
- Numbers 32:39
The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Job 42:16
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Genesis 30:3
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
- Genesis 48:19
But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and…
- Psalms 128:6
that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- Numbers 32:39
Through
Numbers 26:29These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.
it leads to
- Joshua 17:1
Now 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…
- Joshua 17:1
Through
Joshua 22:7(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to…
it leads to
- Joshua 17:1–12
Now 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…
- Numbers 32:33
So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the…
- Joshua 17:1–12
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; 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.