1 Chronicles 5:20

_AND THEY WERE HELPED AGAINST THEM, AND THE HAGARITES WERE DELIVERED INTO THEIR HAND, AND ALL THAT WERE WITH THEM: FOR THEY CRIED TO GOD IN THE BATTLE, AND HE WAS INTREATED OF THEM; BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse 1 Chronicles 5:20. _THEY PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM._] Or, as the Targum says, "Because they trusted במימריה _bemeymriah, in his WORD_....

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 THEY WERE HELPED AGAINST THEM,.... The Israelites were helped against the Ishmaelites, to fight with them, and overcome them; either by their brethren of the house of Israel, as the Targum, those on this side Jordan; or rather by the Lord, to whom they cried, and who was entreated by them as follows: AND THE HAGARITES WERE DELIVERED INTO THEIR HAND, AND ALL THAT [WERE] WITH THEM; they and their confederates and auxiliaries, the Ituraeans, c. FOR THEY CRIED TO GOD IN THE BATTLE which at first seems to have gone against them; and they prayed to God, as the Targum, while they were fighting, that he would appear for them, and give them victory: AND HE WAS ENTREATED OF THEM; he received their prayer, as the same paraphrase; he heard them, and answered them: BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM; in his power and providence, and not in their own strength, courage, and military skill; the...

TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

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 ...

HELPED: i.e. by God (2 Chronicles 26:17; Psalms 28:7). This victory should have shown them that there could have been no captivity had they obeyed God (see note on 1 Chronicles 4:43). TRUST. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69....

The War of the Trans-Jordanic Tribes against the Hagrites 18. _forty and four thousand_ According to Joshua 4:13 "about forty thousand" from these tribes crossed the Jordan with Joshua to aid in the Conquest. _that went out to the war_ R.V. THAT WERE ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR....

7. THE DESCENDANTS OF REUBEN, GAD, AND MANASSEH, WAR BEYOND THE JORDAN (1 Chronicles 5:18-26) TEXT 1 Chronicles 5:18. The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war. 19. And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 20. And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. 21. And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty