_NOW THE SONS OF REUBEN THE FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL, (FOR HE WAS THE FIRSTBORN; BUT, FORASMUCH AS HE DEFILED HIS FATHER'S BED, HIS BIRTHRIGHT WAS GIVEN UNTO THE SONS OF JOSEPH THE SON OF ISRAEL: AND THE GENEALOGY IS NOT TO BE RECKONED AFTER THE BIRTHRIGHT._ Now the sons of Reuben. In proceeding to give... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR JUDAH PREVAILED ABOVE HIS BRETHREN, AND OF HIM CAME THE CHIEF RULER; BUT THE BIRTHRIGHT WAS JOSEPH'S:)_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEERAH HIS SON, WHOM TILGATH-PILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE: HE WAS PRINCE OF THE REUBENITES._ Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pilneser ... carried away captive. There appear to have been carryings away of the people of Israel, the first by Pul (1 Chronicles 5:26), the second by Tiglat... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS BRETHREN BY THEIR FAMILIES, WHEN THE GENEALOGY OF THEIR GENERATIONS WAS RECKONED, WERE THE CHIEF, JEIEL, AND ZECHARIAH,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EASTWARD HE INHABITED UNTO THE ENTERING IN OF THE WILDERNESS FROM THE RIVER EUPHRATES: BECAUSE THEIR CATTLE WERE MULTIPLIED IN THE LAND OF GILEAD._ Eastward he inhabited ... The settlement was on the east of Jordan, and the history of this tribe, which never took any part in the public affairs... [ Continue Reading ]
_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... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD DWELT OVER AGAINST THEM, IN THE LAND OF BASHAN UNTO SALCAH:_ The children of Gad dwelt over against them. The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOEL THE CHIEF, AND SHAPHAM THE NEXT, AND JAANAI, AND SHAPHAT IN BASHAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DWELT IN GILEAD IN BASHAN, AND IN HER TOWNS, AND IN ALL THE SUBURBS OF SHARON, UPON THEIR BORDERS._ Sharon. The term Sharon was applied as descriptive of any place of extraordinary beauty and productiveness. There were three places in Palestine so called. This Sharon lay east of the Jorda... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THESE WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGIES IN THE DAYS OF JOTHAM KING OF JUDAH, AND IN THE DAYS OF JEROBOAM KING OF ISRAEL._ All these were reckoned ... in the day of Jotham. His long reign and freedom from foreign wars, as well as intestine troubles, were favourable for taking a census of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF REUBEN, AND THE GADITES, AND HALF THE TRIBE OF MANASSEH, OF VALIANT MEN, MEN ABLE TO BEAR BUCKLER AND SWORD, AND TO SHOOT WITH BOW, AND SKILFUL IN WAR, WERE FOUR AND FORTY THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREESCORE, THAT WENT OUT TO THE WAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY MADE WAR WITH THE HAGARITES, WITH JETUR, AND NEPHISH, AND NODAB._ The Hagarites - or Hagarenes, originally synonymous with Ishmaelites (cf. Genesis 21:14; Genesis 21:21; Genesis 37:25), but afterward applied to a particular tribe of the Arabs (cf. Psalms 73:6). JETUR. His descendants wer... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THERE FELL DOWN MANY SLAIN, BECAUSE THE WAR WAS OF GOD. AND THEY DWELT IN THEIR STEADS UNTIL THE CAPTIVITY._ They dwelt in their steads until the captivity. It appears that these acquisitions by conquest, which were made by the Reubenites, Gadites, and half tribe of Manasseh, reached to the ba... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH DWELT IN THE LAND: THEY INCREASED FROM BASHAN UNTO BAALHERMON AND SENIR, AND UNTO MOUNT HERMON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT OF PUL KING OF ASSYRIA, AND THE SPIRIT OF TILGATH-PILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA, AND HE CARRIED THEM AWAY, EVEN THE REUBENITES, AND THE GADITES, AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH, AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO HALAH, AND HABOR, AND HARA, AND TO THE RIVER GOZAN, UNTO THIS... [ Continue Reading ]