1 Chronicles 4:41

41 These, registered by name, came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4:41 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:41

And these written by name
Before in ( 1 Chronicles 4:34-37 ) ,

came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah;
as Dr. Lightfoot ^F13 thinks, not within the first fourteen years of his reign, when the Syrian army was abroad, and none dost peep out, but in his last fifteen years, when the army was destroyed and gone:

and smote their tents;
the tents of those who dwelt there for the sake of feeding their flocks, and whose pasturage the Simeonites wanted:

and the habitations that were found there;
or the Meunaim or Maonites, which the Septuagint Version here calls Mineans, a people sometimes mentioned along with the Philistines, and others: see ( Judges 10:11 Judges 10:12 ) ( 1 Chronicles 26:6 1 Chronicles 26:7 )

and destroyed them utterly unto this day:
to the writing of this book; they had not then recovered their possessions:

and dwelt in their room, because there was pasture there for their
flocks;
which was the thing they were in search of.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Works, vol. 1. p. 111.

1 Chronicles 4:41 In-Context

39 They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

40 where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful; for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.

41 These, registered by name, came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42 And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi;

43 they destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites that had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.