1 Chronicles 5:10

_AND IN THE DAYS OF SAUL THEY MADE WAR WITH THE HAGARITES, WHO FELL BY THEIR HAND: AND THEY DWELT IN THEIR TENTS THROUGHOUT ALL THE EAST LAND OF GILEAD._ And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand. [The Septuagint has here, instead of "with the Hagarites," pros tous paroikous, with the neighbours.] Individual tribes often waged separate wars, and obtained successes over conterminous but hostile neighbours, by means of which they enlarged their territories, even in the reign of Saul....

Verse 1 Chronicles 5:10. _AND THEY DWELT IN THEIR TENTS_] The _Hagarites_ were tribes of _Nomade_, or _Scenite_, Arabs; people who lived in _tents_, without any fixed dwellings, and whose property consisted in _cattle_. The descendants of Reuben extirpated these Hagarites, seized on their property and their tents, and dwelt in their place....

The “Hagarites” or “Hagarenes” are generally regarded as descendants of Hagar, and a distinct branch of the Ishmaelites 1 Chronicles 27:30; Psalms 83:6. They appear to have been one of the most wealthy 1 Chronicles 5:21 and widely-spread tribes of the Syrian Desert, being found on the side of the Euphrates in contact with the Assyrians, and also in the Hauran, in the neighborhood of Palestine, in contact with the Moabites and Israelites. If identical with the Agraei of the Classical writers, their name may be considered as still surviving in that of the district called Hejer or Hejera in northeastern Arabia, on the borders of the Persian Gulf. A full account of the war is given i

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 5:1 THE SONS OF REUBEN. The tribe of Reuben is now taken third in order by the compiler, though Reuben was the first of all the sons of Israel. The distinct statements of 1 Chronicles 5:1 and 1 Chronicles 5:2, respecting the degradation of Reuben and his loss of the rights of primogeniture, are not to be understood, however, as mentioned in any way to account for his standing third here. That Judah takes in any genealogy the first place needs no other apology than that contained in this passage, "Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler" (i.e.

AND IN THE DAYS OF SAUL THEY MADE WAR WITH THE HAGARITES,.... Not with the Hungarians, as the Targum, a people not then in being; but the Ishmaelites, so called because they descended from Hagar s, Sarah's maid; the same that are placed by Pliny t and Ptolemy u in Arabia, near the Batanaeans, or inhabitants of Bashan; with those the Reubenites made war, in conjunction with the Gadites and half tribe of Manasseh, 1 Chronicles 5:18, perhaps this war might be much about the time Saul relieved Jabeshgilead, and beat the Ammonites, 1 Samuel 11:1 by which the tribes on that side Jordan might be encouraged to it: WHO FELL BY THEIR HAND; were worsted and conquered by them: AND THEY DWELT IN THEIR TENTS; in which the Arabians used to dwell, because of their flocks; he

3. SIMEON, REUBEN, GAD, AND MANASSEH Chapter S 4:24-5:26 _ 1. The sons of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:24)_ 2. The sons of Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:1) 3. The children of Gad and half Manasseh (1 Chronicles 5:11) The account of the Simeonites is interesting. Some of their families had increased so much that they had no pasture for their flocks. Some went then to Gedor and found fat pasture and quietness. Others went to Mount Seir, and five hundred of them smote the Amalekites. Reuben was the firstborn, and the Chronicles state briefly why Reuben was not mentioned first in these genealogies. His birthright was given to the sons of Joseph. Judah, however, had

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 ...

HAGARITES. Tracing their descent from Hagar through Ishmael. Compare 1 Chronicles 5:19 with 1 Chronicles 1:31, and Psalms 83:6....

_in the days of Saul_ Saul's great victory over the Ammonites (1 Samuel 11) may have paved the way for the expansion of Israel east of Jordan. _the Hegarites_ R.V. the HAGRITES as Psalms 83:6 (R.V. mg.). They were an Arab people. Details of the war are given 1 Chronicles 5:18-22. _the east_land _of Gilead_ R.V. THE land EAST OF GILEAD, i.e. the land between Gilead and the Euphrates (cp. 1 Chronicles 5:9)....

5. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN (1 Chronicles 5:1-10) TEXT 1 Chronicles 5:1. And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph'S), 3. the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 4. The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his Song of Solomon, 5. Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his Song of Solomon, 6. Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.