Numbers 32:40

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 32:40

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Inheritance of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN ( Numbers 32:1-4 ). Numbers 32:1 The children of Reuben and the children...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Petition Granted with the Proposed Condition
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 3:13-15 ; Joshua 13:29-31 ; Joshua 17:1
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 32:40

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 32:40