“ And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. ”
The Settlement of certain Manassites in Gilead. This is a fragment relating to a period later than the Mosaic age. Machir was a Manassite clan, and Jair and Nobah ( Numbers 32:41 f.) were probably...
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Moses gave Gilead unto Machir— i.e. to the family or posterity of Machir, as appears from the 1st verse; for Machir himself, being the son of Manasseh, must have been dead long ago. To this fam...
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Allotment of Territory to the Tribes of Gad and Reuben and the Halftribe of Manasseh 1-5. The tribes of Reuben and Gad request that the land of Gilead lying on the E. side of the Jordan be assigne...
2. SETTLEMENT Numbers 32:1-42 The request of the men of Reuben and Gad that they should be allowed to settle on the eastern side of Jordan in the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was at fir...
Warning against Forsaking Their Brethren Numbers 32:20-42 These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of...
We have here the record of what without doubt was a wrong committed by two and a half tribes, of Moses' failure in judgment, and, consequently, of a grave mistake. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of...
The reason of the change of names was most probably to observe that precept, that the children of Israel should not make mention of the names of the gods of the heathen about them; and their cities w...
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh ,.... That is, to the children of Machir, who went and took it; though some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that Machir himself was now alive, and t...
Numbers 32:40 ; Numbers 32:42 . Moses gave Gilead unto Machir Not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since dead, but the family or posterity of Machir. Nobah Who, though not elsewhere...
A PROPOSAL OF COMPROMISE (vs.1-15) The children of Israel being now east of the Jordan River, the land there appealed to the tribes of Reuben and Gad particularly because they had great possessio...
Inheritance of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar...
Unto Machir, i.e. not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since dead; see Genesis 1:23 ; but the family or posterity of Machir, which are called by their father's name; as the names of Ab...
The Land of the Amorites in Transjordan Is Given To The Two Tribes and the Half Tribe of Manasseh ( Numbers 32:33-42 ). The fulfilment of the treaty was now confirmed with the additional informati...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the account of the allotment of the territory conquered by Israel on the east of the Jordan to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe...
Numbers 32:12 . Save Caleb the Kenezite. Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called the father of Moses' wife, and he was evidently he...
EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN ( Numbers 32:1-4 ). Numbers 32:1 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad. Reuben and Gad had both been camped on t...
The Petition Granted with the Proposed Condition
Deuteronomy 3:13-15 ; Joshua 13:29-31 ; Joshua 17:1
Machir — Not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since dead, but the family or posterity of Machir.