Yeşu 17:1

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

1 Yusufun büyük oğlu Manaşşenin oymağı için kura çekildi. -Gilat ve Başan, Manaşşenin ilk oğlu Makire verilmişti. Çünkü Gilatlıların atası olan Makir büyük bir savaşçıydı.-

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the firstborn: Genesis 41:51, Genesis 46:20, Genesis 48:18, Deuteronomy 21:17

Machir: Genesis 50:23, Numbers 26:29, Numbers 27:1, Numbers 32:39, Numbers 32:40, Judges 5:14, 1 Chronicles 2:23, 1 Chronicles 7:14, 1 Chronicles 7:15

Gilead: Numbers 26:29, Numbers 32:33, Numbers 32:40, Deuteronomy 3:13-15

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:34 - Manasseh Numbers 33:54 - give the less inheritance Deuteronomy 3:15 - Machir Joshua 22:7 - General Judges 20:1 - with the 2 Samuel 17:26 - General 1 Chronicles 12:31 - the half tribe Psalms 60:7 - Gilead Ezekiel 48:4 - Manasseh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh,.... As well as for the tribe of Ephraim:

for he [was] the firstborn of Joseph; and therefore ought to have his part and share in the lot of the children of Joseph, though Ephraim was preferred before him in the blessing of Jacob. Some think this is given as a reason why he had a double portion, one on the other side Jordan, and another in the land of Canaan:

[to wit], for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead; who was the only son of Manasseh, and so through him, and by his son Gilead, the whole tribe sprung from that patriarch: and

because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan; which were given to his posterity by Moses, and lay on the other side Jordan, see Deuteronomy 3:13. This Machir very likely had shown his warlike disposition and courage in Egypt, and had fought under the kings there against the common enemy of that country; for it is highly probable he was dead before the children of Israel came out from thence, but the same warlike spirit continued in his posterity; they had their part assigned them on the other side Jordan, to defend that country, while the tribes of Reuben and Gad attended to the care of their flocks and herds.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Manasseh, as the “first-born,” was to receive not only the territory on the east of Jordan won by the valor of the Machirites, but also a portion with the other tribes on the west of Jordan, the holy land of promise strictly so called. Thus, though Ephraim took precedence of Manasseh, according to the prediction of Joseph Genesis 48:20, yet Manasseh received “the double portion” which was the special privilege of the first-born Deuteronomy 21:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

The lot of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1, 2.

Case of the daughters of Zelophehad, 3-6.

The borders of Manasseh described, 7-11.

The Canaanites dwell among them, but are laid under tribute,

12, 13.

The children of Joseph complain of the scantiness of their lot,

14-16.

Joshua authorizes them to possess the mountainous wood country

of the Perizzites, and gives them encouragement to expel them,

though they were strong and had chariots of iron, 17, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Joshua 17:1. There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh — It was necessary to mark this because Jacob, in his blessing, (Genesis 48:19-20), did in a certain sense set Ephraim before Manasseh, though the latter was the first-born; but the place here shows that this preference did not affect the rights of primogeniture.

For Machir - because he was a man of war — It is not likely that Machir himself was now alive; if he were, he must have been nearly 200 years old: It is therefore probable that what is spoken here is spoken of his children, who now possessed the lot that was originally designed for their father, who it appears had signalized himself as a man of skill and valour in some of the former wars, though the circumstances are not marked. His descendants, being of a warlike, intrepid spirit, were well qualified to defend a frontier country, which would be naturally exposed to invasion.