1 Chronicles 2:23

_AND HE TOOK GESHUR, AND ARAM, WITH THE TOWNS OF JAIR, FROM THEM, WITH KENATH, AND THE TOWNS THEREOF, EVEN THREESCORE CITIES. ALL THESE BELONGED TO THE SONS OF MACHIR THE FATHER OF GILEAD._ He took - rather 'he had taken.' This statement is accounting for his acquisition of so large a territory: he got it by right of conquest from the former possessors. KENATH. This place, along with its group of surrounding villages, was gained by Nobah, one of Jair's officers sent by him to capture it (Numbers 32:1). ALL THESE BELONGED TO THE SONS OF MACHIR. In their number Jair is included, as having completely identified himself, by his marriage and residence in Gilead, with the tribe of Manasseh....

Rather, “And Geshur and Aram (i. e. the Geshurites Deuteronomy 3:14 and Syrians) took the villages of Jair from them:” recovered, that is, from the new settlers the places which Jair had conquered. ALL THESE BELONGED TO THE SONS OF MACHIR - Rather, “All these were sons of Machir,” i. e. Segub and Jair, with their descendants, were reckoned sons of Machir, rather than sons of Hezron, although only descended from Machir on the mother’s side. The reason of this seems to have been that they cast in their lot with the Manassites, and remained in their portion of the trans-Jordanic region....

EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair, and to occasional significant indications of sources drawn upon by the compiler, certainly quite additional to the contents of the existing books of the Old Testament. We know something of what we have to expect when the name of Israel, or Jacob, is announced in the first verse, with his twelve sons—those "patriarchs," some of whom (certainly not as many as eleven, for Reuben was absent, and, with scarcely a doubt, Benjamin), "moved with envy, sold into Egypt Joseph," the twelfth (Acts 7:9). We here enter, in fact, upon the genealogies and tables and enumeratious of collateral lines of "all Israel," to which the whole of the following seven chapters are devoted ...

AND HE TOOK GESHUR, AND ARAM, WITH THE TOWNS OF JAIR, FROM THEM,.... Cities or countries which the Geshurites and Aramaeans, or Syrians, before inhabited; and which he took from them, together with other towns, which, being taken by him, were called after his name; the Targum is, the Geshurites and Aramaeans took the villages of Jair from them; that is, from the sons of Jair in later times; see Joshua 12:5 WITH KENATH, AND THE TOWNS THEREOF; which Jair took by Nobah his general, and called it after his name, Numbers 32:42, even sixty cities; see Deuteronomy 3:4 ALL THESE BELONGED TO THE SONS OF MACHIR THE FATHER OF GILEAD: being given him by Moses,...

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PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

GESHUR. North-east of Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:14.Joshua 12:5; 1 Samuel 15:8). THEM: the Manassites. Compare Numbers 32:41.Deuteronomy 3:14. THREESCORE CITIES. Compare Numbers 32:33.Deuteronomy 3:4. BELONGED TO. Supply the Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) by inserting "took" instead of "belonged to"....

Other Descendants of Hezron 22. _Jair_ He was one of the Judges (Judges 10:3-4 where thirty cities, not twenty-three, are assigned him). _the land of Gilead_ This name is sometimes restricted to that part of the land E. of Jordan which lies S. of the Yarmuk; see _Camb. Companion_, Map 2. Here, as often, it is applied to all the land E. of Jordan occupied by Israel....

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2:23 Aram (f-4) Probably 'the Geshurites and the Syrians.' It may be read 'and he took Geshur and Aram, with the villages,' &c....