Num 32:37-42 - Commentary

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Text -- Numbers 32:37-42 (NET)

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32:37 The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 32:38 Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built. 32:39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there. 32:41 Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair. 32:42 Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

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Names, People and Places:

· Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia

· Baal a pagan god,a title of a pagan god,a town in the Negeb on the border of Simeon and Judah,son of Reaiah son of Micah; a descendant of Reuben,the forth son of Jeiel, the Benjamite

· Elealeh a town on the east side of Jordan

· Gilead a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad

· Havvoth-Jair a group of towns, a region

· Havvoth-jair a group of towns, a region

· Heshbon a town of south-eastern Judah

· Jair son of Segub son of Hezron of Judah,a man of Gilead who judged Israel twenty-two years,son of Shime-i son of Kish of Benjamin; father of Mordecai,the father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath

· Kenath a town in eastern Manasseh

· Kiriathaim a town probably on the south slope of Mt. Nebo, 18 km east of the mouth of the Jordan River (SMM),a town of Naphtali near Kedesh assigned to the Gershonites

· Machir son of Manasseh (Joseph); father of Hezron's wife and of Gilead,son of Ammiel at Lo-Debar; Mephibosheth's friend

· Manasseh the tribe of Manasseh.

· Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law

· Nebo a town in Moab (on the east side of the Jordan),a mountain in Reuben, 15 km east of the mouth of the Jordan River,a town in Judah (IBD).,the Babylonian deity Nabu, son of Bel (Marduk),the forefather of some men who put away their heathen wives

· Nobah a man of Manasseh, presumably,a town of Gilead near Jogbehah south of the Jabbok (OS, ZD)

· Reuben the tribe of Reuben

· Sibmah a town of Reuben near Heshbon