1 Chronicles 4:41

41 ¹These, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived 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 went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

40 They found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad and quiet and peaceful; for those who lived there formerly were Hamites .

41 These, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42 From them, from the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their leaders.

43 They destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 4:33-38

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "smote"