Divrey Hayamim Alef 4:41

41 And these listed by shemot came in the days of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah, and attacked their ohalim, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their place, because there was mireh there for their tzon.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 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.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 4:41 In-Context

39 And they went to the outlying area of Gedor, even unto the east side of the gey (valley), to seek mireh (pasture) for their tzon.

40 And they found mireh fertile and tov, and ha’aretz was spacious, and quiet, and peaceful; for they of Cham had dwelt there of old.

41 And these listed by shemot came in the days of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah, and attacked their ohalim, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their place, because there was mireh there for their tzon.

42 And some of them, even of the Bnei Shim’on, five hundred anashim, went to Har Seir, having for their leaders Pelatyah, and Nearyah, and Refayah, and Uzziel, the Bnei Yishi.

43 And they struck the she’erit (remnant) of Amalek that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.