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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Simeon,.... The account of whom, next to the tribe of Judah, is given before Reuben, because its inheritance lay in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 19:1 his sons were Nemuel, the same with Jemuel, Genesis 46:10 and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul; who, in the place referred to, is said to be the son of a Canaanitish woman; and Jarib and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Shallum his son,.... The son of Shaul, and Mibsam was the son of Shallum, and Mishma the son of Mibsam.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the sons of Mishma,.... These were Hamuel, Zacchur, and Shimei.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters,.... None of which are mentioned by name: but his brethren had not many children: Hamuel and Zacchur: neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah: to show the fruitfulness and great increase of which tribe, the genealogical account of it, in this and the two preceding chapters,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they dwelt at Beersheba,.... posterity of Simeon; and this and the other places of their habitation are mentioned in the same order, and with very little variation of names to the end of 1 Chronicles 4:31, as in Joshua 19:2 and here, at 1 Chronicles 4:31 it is added, these were their cities unto the reign of David; when, according to Kimchi,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:28]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities. There are but four mentioned in Joshua 19:7 one might be added since, or new built, namely, Tochen; these, according to Kimchi, were all that remained for them to dwell in, in the times of David; and therefore they were obliged to seek out for new settlements for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal,.... The same with Baalathbeer, Joshua 19:8 these were their habitations, and their genealogy; as before described, until the times of David.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 34-37. And Meshobab, and Jamlech,.... These, with those that follow to the end of 1 Chronicles 4:37 were famous men in the tribe of Simeon, of rank and dignity, and eminent for courage and valour, as the latter part of the chapter testifies, though they are nowhere else taken notice of. Jamlech, as Fabritius (k) observes, is not very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These mentioned by [their] names [were] princes in their families,.... The principal men of them, heads of their fathers' houses: and the house of their fathers increased greatly; by them, so that they were obliged to seek out for new habitations, as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they went to the entrance of Gedor,.... There was a city of this name in the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 4:18 but this seems to be further off, and perhaps is the same with Gedaris, mentioned by Strabo (l) along with Azotus and Askelon, cities that belonged to the Philistines; since it was inhabited by the posterity of Ham, of whom the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they found fat pasture and good,.... In or near the valley of Gedor: and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; there was room enough for them and their flocks, and they had no enemies on either side to disturb them: for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old; either the Canaanites who descended from Canaan the son of Ham, and had never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And these written by name,.... Before in 1 Chronicles 4:34, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; as Dr. Lightfoot (m) thinks, not within the first fourteen years of his reign, when the Syrian army was abroad, and none dost peep out, but in his last fifteen years, when the army was destroyed and gone: and smote their tents; the tents of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir,.... In the land of Edom: having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi; these four captains are said, by the ancient Rabbins, to be of the tribe of Manasseh, as Kimchi observes; see 1 Chronicles 5:24 but as the five...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped,.... That escaped the sword of Saul; though, according to the Jews (n), 100,000 of them were slain by him in one day; and of the sword of David, though he is said not to leave man or woman alive, 1 Samuel 27:8 and dwelt there unto this day; in the cities of the Amalekites, even of the...