48443 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jokim,.... The Vulgate Latin version is, and he that made the sun to stand: as if Joshua was meant; and in the Talmud it is (g) said Jokim, this is Joshua, who confirmed the oath to the Gibeonites; and the Targum here is, "and the prophets of the scribes that sprang from the posterity of Joshua;'' but Joshua was of the tribe of Ephraim, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These were the potters,.... Or are the potters; the posterity of those men, who were so famous in their day, are now of mean employments: some of them made earthen pots; and some of them dwelt among plants and hedges; or were employed in planting gardens and orchards, and making fences for them; or, as others think, "dwelt in Netaim and Gadara",...
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...