Deuteronomy 3:13-15; Joshua 13:29-31; Joshua 17:1
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...
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 M...
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 Gi...
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 t...
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 othe...
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...
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...
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...
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 post...
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...
Inheritance of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. ...
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...
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 trea...
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 t...
Numbers 32:12 . Save Caleb the Kenezite. Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called...
EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN ( Numbers 32:1-4 ). Numbers 32:1 The children of Reuben and the children...
The Petition Granted with the Proposed Condition
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Machir — Not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since dead, but the family or posterity of Machir.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.