1 Chronik 5:10

10 Und zur Zeit Sauls führten sie Krieg wider die Hagariter, daß sie fielen durch ihre Hand, und wohnten in deren Hütten auf der ganzen Morgengrenze von Gilead.

1 Chronik 5:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 5:10

And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites,
&c.] Not with the Hungarians, as the Targum, a people not then in being; but the Ishmaelites, so called because they descended from Hagar ^F19, Sarah's maid; the same that are placed by Pliny ^F20 and Ptolemy ^F21 in Arabia, near the Batanaeans, or inhabitants of Bashan; with those the Reubenites made war, in conjunction with the Gadites and half tribe of Manasseh, ( 1 Chronicles 5:18 1 Chronicles 5:19 ) , perhaps this war might be much about the time Saul relieved Jabeshgilead, and beat the Ammonites, ( 1 Samuel 11:1-14 ) by which the tribes on that side Jordan might be encouraged to it:

who fell by their hand;
were worsted and conquered by them:

and they dwelt in their tents;
in which the Arabians used to dwell, because of their flocks; hence some of them were called Scenites:

throughout all the east [land] of Gilead;
or rather throughout all the land of the Hagarites, which lay to the east of Gilead, as the Vulgate Latin version; or otherwise the land of Gilead itself was their original possession.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 So David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 45. 4.
F20 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.
F21 Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.

1 Chronik 5:10 In-Context

8 und Bela, der Sohn des Asas, des Sohnes Semas, des Sohnes Joels; der wohnte zu Aroer und bis gen Nebo und Baal-Meon

9 und wohnte gegen Aufgang, bis man kommt an die Wüste am Wasser Euphrat; denn ihres Viehs war viel im Lande Gilead.

10 Und zur Zeit Sauls führten sie Krieg wider die Hagariter, daß sie fielen durch ihre Hand, und wohnten in deren Hütten auf der ganzen Morgengrenze von Gilead.

11 Die Kinder Gads aber wohnten ihnen gegenüber im Lande Basan bis gen Salcha:

12 Joel, der Vornehmste, und Sapham, der andere, Jaenai und Saphat zu Basan.