the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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1 Chronicles 2:23
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Geshur: Joshua 13:13, 2 Samuel 13:38
Kenath: Kenath was situated in the tribe of Manasseh, east of Jordan. Eusebius says it was called in his time ï¨×××××, Kanatha; and was a town in the Trachonitis, near Bozra. Josephus places it in Coelo-syria; and Pliny reckons it among the cities of the Decapolis. It was also called Nobah, after Nobah an Israelite, who conquered it (Numbers 32:42), which is placed by Eusebius, eight miles south of Heshbon. see note on Judges 8:11.
Reciprocal: Joshua 13:11 - General Joshua 17:1 - Machir 1 Samuel 27:8 - the Geshurites 1 Chronicles 2:42 - the father of Hebron 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Geshur 1 Chronicles 9:35 - the father
Cross-References
The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in `Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.
The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
And the LORD God planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them,.... Cities or countries which the Geshurites and Aramaeans, or Syrians, before inhabited; and which he took from them, together with other towns, which, being taken by him, were called after his name; the Targum is, the Geshurites and Aramaeans took the villages of Jair from them; that is, from the sons of Jair in later times; see
Joshua 12:5
with Kenath, and the towns thereof; which Jair took by Nobah his general, and called it after his name, Numbers 32:42, even sixty cities; see Deuteronomy 3:4
all these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead: being given him by Moses, Numbers 32:40.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Rather, âAnd Geshur and Aram (i. e. the Geshurites Deuteronomy 3:14 and Syrians) took the villages of Jair from them:â recovered, that is, from the new settlers the places which Jair had conquered.
All these belonged to the sons of Machir - Rather, âAll these were sons of Machir,â i. e. Segub and Jair, with their descendants, were reckoned sons of Machir, rather than sons of Hezron, although only descended from Machir on the motherâs side. The reason of this seems to have been that they cast in their lot with the Manassites, and remained in their portion of the trans-Jordanic region.