CHAPTER V _The genealogies of Reuben_, 1-10. _Of Gad_, 11-17. _The exploits of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh_, 18-22. _The genealogy of the half tribe of Manasseh_, 23, 24. _The idolatry of these tribes and their captivity by the_ _Assyrians_, 25, 26. NOTES ON CHAP. V Verse 1... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:2. _AND OF HIM_ CAME _THE CHIEF RULER_] This is, by both the Syriac and Arabic, understood of _Christ_: "From Judah the King Messiah shall proceed." The _Chaldee_ paraphrases the verse thus: "Seeing Judah prevailed over his brethren, so the kingdom was taken from Reuben and give... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:6. _BEERAH HIS SON_] After their separation from the house of David the ten tribes continued to have princes of the tribes; and this continued till the time that Tiglath-pileser carried them captives into Assyria. At that time _Beerah_ was their _prince_ or _chief_; and with him... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:8. _WHO DWELT IN AROER_] This town was situated on the river _Arnon_; and _Nebo_ was both a city and a mountain in the same country. They both lay on the other side of Jordan.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 a... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:12. _JOEL THE CHIEF_] "Joel, prince of the Sanhedrin; and Shapham, master of the college; and Jaanai and Shaphat, judges in Mathnan." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:13. _AND THEIR BRETHREN_] This verse is wanting both in the _Syriac_ and in the _Arabic_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:16. _THE SUBURBS OF SHARON_] There were _three_ places of this name: that mentioned here was a district in the country of Bashan beyond Jordan, (see Joshua 12:18;) there was another that lay between Caesarea of Palestine and Joppa; and there was a third between Mount Tabor and t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:19. _THEY MADE WAR WITH THE HAGARITES_] This is probably the same war that is mentioned 1 Chronicles 5:10. Those called _Hagarites_ in the text are everywhere denominated by the Targum הונגראיי _Hongaraai_, Hongarites.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:20. _THEY PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM._] Or, as the Targum says, "Because they trusted במימריה _bemeymriah, in his WORD_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:21. _THEY TOOK AWAY THEIR CATTLE_] This was a war of extermination as to the political state of the people, which nothing could justify but an especial direction of God; and this he could never give against any, unless the cup of their iniquity had been full. The Hagarites were... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:22. _FOR THERE FELL DOWN MANY SLAIN_] The _hundred thousand_ _men_ mentioned above were probably made _slaves_, and were not slain. The Targum says, _one hundred thousand souls of men_. _THE WAR WAS OF GOD._] The Targum says, the war was מן מימרא דיי _min meymera dayai_, "from... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:25. _THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND_] We see the reason why God delivered the Hagarites into the hands of these tribes; they were abominable _idolaters_, and therefore God destroyed them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 5:26. _TILGATH-PILNESER_] Many MSS. have תגלת _Tiglath_ instead of תלגת _Tilgath_. The _Syriac_, the _Septuagint_, and the _Chaldee_, have the same reading as in 2 Kings 15:29, c. _BROUGHT THEM UNTO HALAH_] See the _notes_ on the parallel places marked in the margin [2 Kings 17:... [ Continue Reading ]