Joshua 13:28
in Joshua 13This was the inheritance of the clans of the Gadites, including the cities and villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
KJV
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 13
Commentary
5 notes on this verseSuccoth and Penuel, which we read of in the story of Gideon, were in this tribe; and that forest which is called the wood of Ephraim (from the slaughter Jephthah made there of the Ephraimites), in which Absalom's rebellious army was beaten, while his father David lay at Mahanaim, one of the frontier-cities of this tribe,
This site's exposition
what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Gad
on Joshua 13:24-31
Gad inherits Jacob's ground, since Mahanaim is where Jacob met the angels of God at Genesis 32:1-2. Adam Clarke identifies Ramath-mizpeh with Ramoth-gilead, a city of refuge at Joshua 20:8 and the field where Ahab dies. Manasseh receives the sixty towns of Jair, named by Jair at Numbers 32:41.
This site's exposition
This was the inheritance of the clans of the Gadites
The closing formula matches verse 23 for Reuben, and John Gill reads the villages as the smaller places attached to each named city. Matthew Henry follows Gad's land into later history. David waited at Mahanaim during Absalom's revolt, recorded at 2 Samuel 17:24.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad, after their families,.... As described in Jos 13:27, the cities and their villages; the cities given them, some of which are mentioned by name, and the villages adjacent and belonging to them were included in them.
If they had been appointed to a lot entire by themselves, Moses would have served them first, not because it was his own tribe, but because it was God's; but they must be provided for in another manner; their habitations must be scattered in all the tribes, and their maintenance brought out of all the tribes, and God himself was the portion both of their inheritance and of their cup, Deut. x.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| זֹ֛את | zot | this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| נַחֲלַ֥ת | nachalat | [was] [the] inheritance of | H5159 → | 222 times |
| בְּנֵי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| גָ֖ד | gad | Gad | H1410 → | 72 times |
| לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם | lemishpechotam | to clans their | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הֶעָרִ֖ים | hearim | the cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽם׃ | vechatzreihem | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
זֹ֛אתthis
zotH2063 →603 times
נַחֲלַ֥ת[was] [the] inheritance of
nachalatH5159 →222 times
בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
גָ֖דGad
gadH1410 →72 times
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their
lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times
הֶעָרִ֖יםthe cities
hearimH5892 →1090 times
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽם׃and villages their
vechatzreihemH2691 →191 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.