1 Chronicles 5:11-22

Gad

11 The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salekah:
12 Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat, in Bashan.
13 Their relatives, by families, were: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jakan, Zia and Eber—seven in all.
14 These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.
15 Ahi son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family.
16 The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended.
17 All these were entered in the genealogical records during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.
18 The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men ready for military service—able-bodied men who could handle shield and sword, who could use a bow, and who were trained for battle.
19 They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab.
20 They were helped in fighting them, and God delivered the Hagrites and all their allies into their hands, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.
21 They seized the livestock of the Hagrites—fifty thousand camels, two hundred fifty thousand sheep and two thousand donkeys. They also took one hundred thousand people captive,
22 and many others fell slain, because the battle was God’s. And they occupied the land until the exile.

1 Chronicles 5:11-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 5

This chapter relates the genealogy of the tribes that lived on the other side Jordan; of the Reubenites, 1Ch 5:1-10, of the Gadites, 1Ch 5:11-17 of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1Ch 5:23,24 and of their war with the Hagarites, in conjunction with each other, and their conquest of them, 1Ch 5:18-22 and who for their sins were all carried captive by the king of Assyria, 1Ch 5:25,26.

Cross References 11

  • 1. S Genesis 30:11; S Numbers 1:25; S Joshua 13:24-28
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 13:11
  • 3. S 2 Kings 15:32
  • 4. S 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 14:16,28
  • 5. S Numbers 1:3
  • 6. ver 10; Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 1:31
  • 7. Psalms 37:40; Psalms 46:5; Psalms 54:4
  • 8. 1 Kings 8:44; 2 Chronicles 6:34; 2 Chronicles 13:14; 2 Chronicles 14:11; Psalms 20:7-9; Psalms 22:5; Psalms 107:6
  • 9. Psalms 26:1; Isaiah 26:3; Daniel 6:23
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 20:4; 2 Chronicles 32:8
  • 11. S ver 10; S 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6
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