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1 Chronicles 5:22 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 5 · verse 22
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.1 Chronicles 5:22 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 5:22 in context
20And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
21And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
22For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
23And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
24And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- captivitygôwlâhexileH1473 →
- slainchâlâlpiercedH2491 →
- dweltyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- fellnâphalto fall, in a great variety of applicationsH5307 →
- manyrababundantH7227 →
- warmilchâmâha battleH4421 →
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The heads of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that were seated on the other side Jordan, are named here, Ch1 5:23, Ch1 5:24. Their lot, at first, was Bashan only; but afterwards they increased so much in wealth and power that they spread far north, even unto Hermon.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-26