Advanced Commentary

(ex.: John 3:14-18)

Table of Contents Bible Dictionary
Hymns
Arts
Questions
Resources/Books

Context
5:6 and his son <01121> Beerah <0880>, whom <0834> King <04428> Tiglath-pileser <08407> of Assyria <0804> carried into exile <01540>. Beerah was the tribal leader <05387> of Reuben <07206>. 5:7 His brothers <0251> by their clans <04940>, as listed in their genealogical records <08435> <03187>: The leader <07218> Jeiel <03273>, Zechariah <02148>, 5:8 and Bela <01106> son <01121> of Azaz <05811>, son <01121> of Shema <08087>, son <01121> of Joel <03100>. They <01931> lived <03427> in Aroer <06177> as far as <05704> Nebo <05015> and Baal Meon <01186>. 5:9 In the east <04217> they settled <03427> as far <05704> as the entrance <0935> to the desert <04057> that stretches to <04480> the Euphrates <06578> River <05104>, for <03588> their cattle <04735> had increased <07235> in numbers in the land <0776> of Gilead <01568>. 5:10 During the time <03117> of Saul <07586> they attacked <04421> <06213> the Hagrites <01905> and defeated <05307> them. They took over <03427> their territory <0168> in <05921> the entire <03605> eastern <04217> region of Gilead <01568>. 5:11 The descendants <01121> of Gad <01410> lived <03427> near <05048> them in the land <0776> of Bashan <01316>, as far <05704> as Salecah <05548>. 5:12 They included Joel <03100> the leader <07218>, Shapham <08223> the second <04932> in command, Janai <03285>, and Shaphat <08202> in Bashan <01316>. 5:13 Their relatives <0251>, listed according to their families <01> <01004>, included Michael <04317>, Meshullam <04918>, Sheba <07652>, Jorai <03140>, Jacan <03275>, Zia <02127>, and Eber <05677>– seven <07651> in all. 5:14 These <0428> were the sons <01121> of Abihail <032> son <01121> of Huri <02359>, son <01121> of Jaroah <03386>, son <01121> of Gilead <01568>, son <01121> of Michael <04317>, son <01121> of Jeshishai <03454>, son <01121> of Jahdo <03163>, son <01121> of Buz <0938>. 5:15 Ahi <0277> son <01121> of Abdiel <05661>, son <01121> of Guni <01476>, was the leader <07218> of the family <01> <01004>. 5:16 They lived <03427> in Gilead <01568>, in Bashan <01316> and its surrounding <01323> settlements, and in the pasturelands <04054> of Sharon <08289> to <05921> their very borders <08444>. 5:17 All <03605> of them were listed in the genealogical records <03187> in the time <03117> of King <04428> Jotham <03147> of Judah <03063> and in the time <03117> of King <04428> Jeroboam <03379> of Israel <03478>. 5:18 The Reubenites <07205> <01121>, Gadites <01425>, and the half-tribe <07626> <02677> of Manasseh <04519> had 44,760 <08346> <03967> <07651> <0505> <0702> <0705> men <0582> in <04480> their combined armies, warriors <02428> <01121> who carried <05375> shields <04043> and swords <02719>, were equipped <01869> with bows <07198>, and were trained <03925> for war <04421>. 5:19 They attacked <04421> <06213> the Hagrites <01905>, Jetur <03195>, Naphish <05305>, and Nodab <05114>. 5:20 They received <05826> divine help <05826> in <05921> fighting them, and the Hagrites <01905> and all <03605> their allies were handed over <03027> <05414> to <05973> them. They cried out <02199> to God <0430> during the battle <04421>; he responded <06279> to their prayers <06279> because <03588> they trusted <0982> in him. 5:21 They seized <07617> the Hagrites’ animals <04735>, including 50,000 <0505> <02572> camels <01581>, 250,000 <0505> <02572> <03967> sheep <06629>, and 2,000 <0505> donkeys <02543>. They also took captive 100,000 <0505> <03967> people <0120> <05315>. 5:22 Because <03588> God <0430> fought for them, they killed <02491> many <07227> of the enemy. They dispossessed <05307> the Hagrites <04421> and lived <03427> in their land <08478> until <05704> the exile <01473>. 5:23 The half-tribe <07626> <02677> <01121> of Manasseh <04519> settled <03427> in the land <0776> from Bashan <01316> as far as <05704> Baal Hermon <01179>, Senir <08149>, and Mount <02022> Hermon <02768>. They <01992> grew in number <07235>. 5:24 These <0428> were the leaders <07218> of their families <01> <01004>: Epher <06081>, Ishi <03469>, Eliel <0447>, Azriel <05837>, Jeremiah <03414>, Hodaviah <01938>, and Jahdiel <03164>. They were skilled warriors <02428>, warriors <01368>, men <0376> of reputation <08034>, and leaders <07218> of their families <01>. 5:25 But they were unfaithful <04603> to the God <0430> of their ancestors <01> and worshiped <02181> instead <0310> the gods <0430> of the native <0776> peoples <05971> whom <0834> God <0430> had destroyed <08045> before <06440> them. 5:26 So the God <0430> of Israel <03478> stirred up <05782> King <04428> Pul <06322> of Assyria <0804> (that is, King <04428> Tiglath-pileser <08407> of Assyria <0804>), and he carried away <01540> the Reubenites <07206>, Gadites <01425>, and half-tribe <07626> <02677> of Manasseh <04519> and took <0935> them to Halah <02477>, Habor <02249>, Hara <02024>, and the river <05104> of Gozan <01470>, where they remain to <05704> this <02088> very day <03117>.

• 1Ch 5:11-22 -- Gad's Descendants
• 1Ch 5:23-26 -- The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

• Hagarene

  [ebd] or Hagarite. (1.) One of David's mighty men (1 Chr. 11:38), the son of a foreigner. (2.) Used of Jaziz (1 Chr. 27:31), who was over David's flocks. "A Hagarite had charge of David's flocks, and an Ishmaelite of his herds, be...
  

• Music

  [ebd] Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Deluge, the first mention of ...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Genealogy

  [nave] GENEALOGY, Num. 1:18; 2 Chr. 12:15; Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:5; Heb. 7:3. Of no spiritual significance, Matt. 3:9; 1 Tim. 1:4; Tit. 3:9. From Adam to Noah, Gen. 4:16-22; 5; 1 Chr. 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38; to Abraham, Gen. 11:10-32; ...
  

• Jacob

  [nave] JACOB Son of Isaac, and twin brother of Esau, Gen. 25:24-26; Josh. 24:4; 1 Chr. 1:34; Acts 7:8. Ancestor of Jesus, Matt. 1:2. Given in answer to prayer, Gen. 25:21. Obtains Esau's birthright for a some stew, Gen. 25:29-34...
  

• Polygamy

  [nave] POLYGAMY Forbidden, Deut. 17:17; Lev. 18:18; Mal. 2:14, 15; Matt. 19:4, 5; Mark 10:2-8; 1 Tim. 3:2, 12; Tit. 1:6. Authorized, 2 Sam. 12:8. Tolerated, Ex. 21:10; 1 Sam. 1:2; 2 Chr. 24:3. Practiced, Job 27:15; by Lamech, Ge...
  

• GENEALOGY, 8 part 2

  [isbe] GENEALOGY, 8 part 2 - I. Primeval Genealogies (1 Chronicals 1:1-54). To show Israel's place among the nations; follows Genesis closely, omitting only the Cainites; boldly, skillfully compressed, as if the omitted facts were ...
  

• Gad

  [ebd] fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob's seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, "A troop cometh: and she called," etc., should rather be...
  [nave] GAD 1. Jacob's seventh son, Gen. 30:11; 35:26; Ex. 1:4. Children of, Gen. 46:16; Num. 26:15-18; 1 Chr. 5:11. Prophecy concerning, Gen. 49:19. 2. A tribe of Israel. Blessed by Moses, Deut. 33:20. Enumeration of, at Sinai,...
  

• Shapham

  [isbe] SHAPHAM - sha'-fam (shapham; Sapham, Sabat): Name of a Gadite chief, who had the second place in command of his tribe (1 Ch 5:12). So far as the fragmentary genealogies are intelligible, they seem to indicate that Shapham an...
  [smith] (bold), a Gadite of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:12) (B.C. 750.)
  [nave] SHAPHAM, chief of Gad, 1 Chr. 5:12.
  

• Jeroboam

  [ebd] increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), "an Ephrathite," the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of Zereda, and while still ...
  [smith] (whose people are many). The first king of the divided kingdom of Israel, B.C. 975-954, was the son of an Ephraimite of the name of Nebat. He was raised by Solomon to the rank of superintendent over the taxes and labors exac...
  [nave] JEROBOAM: 1. First king of Israel after the revolt. Promoted by Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:28. Ahijah's prophecy concerning, 1 Kin. 11:29-39; 14:5-16. Flees to Egypt to escape from Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:26-40. Recalled from Egypt by...
  

• Gilead

  [nave] GILEAD 1. A region E. of the Jordan allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half tribe of Manasseh, Num. 32:1-30; Deut. 3:13; 34:1; 2 Kin. 10:33. Reubenites expel the Hagarites from, 1 Chr. 5:9, 10, 18-22. Ammonites m...
  

• Michael

  [ebd] who is like God? (1.) The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1). He had special charge of Israel as a nation. He disputed with Satan (Jude 1:9) about the body of Moses. He is also represented as warni...
  [isbe] MICHAEL - mi'-ka-el, mi'-kel (mikha'el, "who is like God?" Michael): (1) The father of Sethur the Asherite spy (Nu 13:13). (2) (3) Two Gadites (1 Ch 5:13,14). (4) A name in the genealogy of Asaph (1 Ch 6:40 (Hebrew 25)). (5)...
  [smith] (who is like God?). An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. (Numbers 13:13) One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:13) Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. (1 Chronicles 5...
  [nave] MICHAEL 1. An Asherite, Num. 13:13. 2. Two Gadites, 1 Chr. 5:13, 14. 3. A Gershonite Levite, 1 Chr. 6:40. 4. A descendant of Issachar, 1 Chr. 7:3. 5. A Benjamite, 1 Chr. 8:16. 6. A captain of the thousands of Manasseh w...
  

• PALESTINE, 3

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...
  

• Reuben

  [isbe] REUBEN - roo'-ben, ru'-ben (re'ubhen; Rhouben): The eldest son of Jacob, born to him by Leah in Paddan-aram (Gen 29:32). 1. Jacob's Oldest Son: This verse seems to suggest two derivations of the name. As it stands in Massore...
  [smith] (behold a son), Jacob?s firstborn Child, (Genesis 29:32) the son of Leah. (B.C. 1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, on the whole a favorable view of his disposition. To him and him alone the preservation of Josep...
  [nave] REUBEN Son of Jacob, Gen. 29:32; 1 Chr. 2:1. Brings mandrakes to his mother, Gen. 30:14. Commits incest with one of his father's concubines, and, in consequence, forfeits the birthright, Gen. 35:22; 49:4; 1 Chr. 5:1. Adro...
  

• Abdiel

  [ebd] servant of God, (1 Chr. 5:15), a Gadite chief.
  [isbe] ABDIEL - ab'-di-el (`abhdi'el, "servant of God"): A Gadite who lived in Gilead or in Bashan, and whose name was reckoned in genealogies of the time of Jotham, king of Judah, or of Jeroboam II, king of Israel (1 Ch 5:15-17).
  [smith] (the servant of God), son of Guni and father of Ahi, one of the Gadites who were settled in the land of Bashan, (1 Chronicles 5:15), in the days of Jotham king of Judah. (B.C. 758.)
  [nave] ABDIEL, a Gadite, 1 Chr. 5:15.
  

• Reuben, Tribe of

  [ebd] at the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with that of Gad in asking permi...
  

• HAGRITES

  [isbe] HAGRITES - hag'-rits (haghri'im): An Arab tribe, or confederation of tribes (1 Ch 5:10,19,20 the King James Version "Hagarites"; 1 Ch 27:31 the King James Version "Hagerite"; Ps 83:6 "Hagarenes"), against which the Reubenite...
  

• Hagar

  [nave] HAGAR, a servant of Abraham and handmaid of Sarah. Given by Sarah to Abraham to be his wife, Gen. 16. Descendants of, Gen. 25:12-15; 1 Chr. 5:10, 19-22; Psa. 83:6. Called Agar, Gen. 4:24, 25.
  

• Epher

  [ebd] a calf. (1.) One of the sons of Midian, who was Abraham's son by Keturah (Gen. 25:4). (2.) The head of one of the families of trans-Jordanic Manasseh who were carried captive by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chr. 5:24).
  [isbe] EPHER - e'-fer (`epher, "calf," "young deer"; Apher, Opher: (1) The second son of Midian, descended from Abraham by his wife Keturah (Gen 25:4; 1 Ch 1:33). See further Dillmann's Commentary on Gen (25:4). (2) The third son o...
  [smith] A son of Ezra, among the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:17) One of the heads of the families of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)
  [nave] EPHER 1. A son of Midian, Gen. 25:4; 1 Chr. 1:33. 2. Son of Ezra, 1 Chr. 4:17. 3. A chief of Manasseh, 1 Chr. 5:24.
  

• Zia

  [ebd] fear, a Gadite (1 Chr. 5:13).
  [isbe] ZIA - zi'-a (zia`, meaning uncertain): A Gadite, possibly the name of a Gadite clan (1 Ch 5:13).
  [smith] (motion), one of the Gadites who dwelt in Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:13) (B.C. 1014.)
  [nave] ZIA, a Gadite, 1 Chr. 5:13.
  

• Samuel, Kings, Chronicles: Genealogies

  

• [1Ch 5:20] Answering Time Will Come, The

  Ask what thou wilt, believing heart, The answering time will come; Pray and believe—that is thy part, The answering time will come. Refrain The answering time will come; The answering time will come. Tho’ dark the way, still trust and pray, The answering time will come. Ask in the name of Christ thy Lord, The answering time will come; Rest on the promise of His Word, The answering time will come. Refrain God’s Word is sure; it cannot fail, The answering time will come; The prayer of faith shall yet prevail, The answering time will come. Refrain God will not mock believing prayer, The answering time will come; He knows the burden thou dost bear, The answering time will come. Refrain

  Play

  source: Cyberhymnal

• [1Ch 5:20] He Will Answer Every Prayer

  God has given you His promise That He hears and answers prayer. He will heed your supplication If you cast on Him your care. Refrain He will answer every prayer, He will answer every prayer, Go to Him in faith believing, He will answer every prayer. He will not withhold one blessing, He will give you what is best. God will answer by His Spirit, Every one who makes request. Refrain He can hear the great petition, And the smallest, over there. Unto God pray without ceasing, He will answer every prayer. Refrain Take to God your plans and failures, Any time and anywhere. No one ever goes unanswered, For He answers every prayer. Refrain

  Play

  source: Cyberhymnal

• Who Were the Ishmaelites?
  They were descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, and were divided into twelve tribes (Gen. 25:16; Gen. 16:15,16). They were also called Hagarites, Hagarenes and Arabians (I Chron. 5:10; Psa. 83:6; Isa. 13:20). They were gover...
• Where did the idea that Jesus is the Rose of Sharon come from?
  This may have developed from those who see the Song of Solomon as a picture of Christ and the church, though this is certainly not the primary purpose of this book and is really a strong typological use the book. Below are co...

Back to Commentary Page