1 Chronicles 4:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. They of Ham had dwelt there of old - These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor, which was situated in the environs of Joppa and Samnia.

Those whom the five hundred Simeonites expelled from Seir were Amalekites, 1 Chronicles 4:43.

1 Chronicles 4:40

40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.