“ Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ”
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogi...
Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. Joel the chief - "Joel, prince of the Sanhedrin; and Shapham, master of the college; and Jaanai and Shaphat, judges in Mathnan...
Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genealogies (continued) This chapter gives lists of the descendants of Reuben, the families of Gad, and the families of the eastern division of Manasseh.
(11-17) THE SONS OF GAD, THEIR CLANS, TERRITORY, AND REGISTRATION. (11) And the children of Gad dwelt over against them. — That is, adjoining them on the east of Jordan. In the land of Basha...
NAMES 1 Chronicles 1:1-54 ; 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ; 1 Chronicles 3:1-24 ; 1 Chronicles 4:1-43 ; 1 Chronicles 5:1-26 ; 1 Chronicles 6:1-81 ; 1 Chronicles 7:1-40 ; 1 Chronicles 8:1-40 ; 1 Chr...
The worth principally attracting attention in this chapter are those connected with the name of Reuben. Here the ultimate light flames on the record: "the Prince," toward whose advent everything move...
The tribe of Gad very properly comes in, to be noticed in their genealogy, after that of Reuben; for this tribe also joined with Reuben in the wish of settlement.
Joel the chief ,.... In this and the following verse are reckoned up the principal men in the tribe of Gad, and the chief of all was Joel, another from him in the tribe of Reuben, 1 Chronicles 5:4...
Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. Ver. 12. And Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan. ] Or, Abode in Bashan to defend their country, while their brethren were warring...
Joel the chief The prince of the tribe, or, at least, of the family, when they were numbered, namely, in the days of Jotham, 1 Chronicles 5:17 . In Bashan That is, either who dwelt in the city o...
Genealogies. B. C. 715. 1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the...
The chief; the prince of the tribe, or at least of his family, when they were numbered, to wit, in the days of Jotham, 1 Chronicles 5:17 . Shaphat in Bashan, i.e. who dwelt in the city of Bash...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This ch. contains Reuben, Gad, and the half of Manasseh east of Jordan, with two episodes, one on the wars of these tribes, and the other on the removal by Tilgath-pilneser. The uppe...
1 Chronicles 5:19 . The Hagarites, that is, the Ishmaelites, who descended from Hagar's son. 1 Chronicles 5:21 . Fifty thousand. The LXX read, five thousand. The ancient way of numbering by le...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 5:1-13 THE SONS OF REUBEN . The tribe of Reuben is now taken third in order by the compiler, though Reuben was the first of all the sons of Israel. The distin...
The Posterity of Gad and of Half-Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 3:22 ; 1 Chronicles 5:11 ; 1 Samuel 8:2 ; Numbers 21:33