And they found fat pasture and good. — If Gerar was the right reading in 1 Chronicles 4:39, we might compare Genesis 26:17 seq.
And the land was wide. — Genesis 34:21. Literally, broad of both hands — i.e., on both sides. An open plain is meant.
And quiet and peaceable. — Like Laish, which the Danites took by surprise (Judges 18:7; Judges 18:28).
They of Ham had dwelt there of old. — That is, they who were then dwelling there were Hamites or Canaanites (1 Chronicles 1:8).
Of old. — Literally, before (lephânîm); that is, before the Simeonite invasion.