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Numbers 32:39

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.

KJV

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The children of Machir - Machir, the son of Manasseh, was long since dead: even his sons had been brought up upon Joseph’s knees Gen 50:23. But the renown acquired by his descendants raised his family almost to the dignity of a tribe; and the Machirites are in the next verse styled Machir, just as the children of Judah or of Ephraim are often spoken of as Judah or Ephraim. So in Jdg 5:14 Machir is coupled with Ephraim and Zebulun.

This site's exposition

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh

on Numbers 32:39-42

The chapter closes with three men who take ground and name it: Machir, Jair and Nobah. Jair's towns are the Havvoth-jair of Deuteronomy 3:14. Albert Barnes notes that the name Nobah gave Kenath fell out of use.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

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.
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

"Let them win it and wear it, get it and take it." And, they being celebrated for their courage and bravery, it was for the common safety to put them in this frontier-country. Concerning the settlement of these tribes observe, (1.) They built the cities, that is, repaired them, because either they had been damaged by the war or the Amorites had suffered them to go to decay.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּנֵ֨י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • מָכִ֧ירMakir

    makhirH4353 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֛הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • גִּלְעָ֖דָהGilead towards

    giladahH1568 →134 times

  • וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֑הָand they captured it

    vaiyilkeduhaH3920 →121 times

  • וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁand he dispossessed

    vaiyoreshH3423 →231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאֱמֹרִ֥יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH567 →87 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּֽהּ׃[was] in <the> it

    bah

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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

    Numbers 26:29

    These 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • 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

    • Numbers 32:39–40

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

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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 46:20

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

    • 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.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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.”

    • Job 42:16

      After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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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