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Numbers 32:40

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So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

KJV

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh,.... That is, to the children of Machir, who went and took it; though some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that Machir himself was now alive, and that it was given to him, but that is not probable; for, supposing him to be living when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, all that came from thence, who were twenty years old and upwards, died in the wilderness, excepting two, see Num 32:11, and he dwelt therein; that is, the family of the Macharite; see Num 26:29.

This site's exposition

the children of Machir the son of Manasseh

on Numbers 32:39-42

The chapter closes with three men who take ground and put a name on it, Machir, Jair and Nobah. The towns of Jair are the Havoth-jair of Deuteronomy 3:14, and Nobah puts his own name on Kenath, which Albert Barnes notes fell out of use so completely that the older name holds the site today. The tribes that settled first, and settled outside the borders drawn in Numbers 34, are the tribes carried away first, which 2 Kings 15:29 and 1 Chronicles 5:26 record.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A mountainous country, famous for pasturage 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיִּתֵּ֤ןand he gave

    vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֔ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 times

  • לְמָכִ֖ירto Makir

    lemakhirH4353 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֑הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • וַיֵּ֖שֶׁבand he dwelt

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּֽהּ׃in <the> it

    bah

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.

Joshua 17:1Now 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 was a man of war.5 worksDeuteronomy 3:13–15To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)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 works2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.2 worksSong of Solomon 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.2 worksJudges 20:1Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.1 works

The walk

5 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 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…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 41:51

      Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

    • Numbers 26:29

      These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

    • Genesis 50:23

      He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

    • Genesis 46:20

      Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

    • Numbers 32:39–40

      The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on 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.

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