1 Cronache 5:22

22 molti ne caddero morti, perché quella guerra procedeva da Dio. E si stabilirono nel luogo di quelli, fino alla cattività.

1 Cronache 5:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 5:22

For there fell down many slain
Many were killed in the battle, besides the great number of prisoners made, so that the army the Ishmaelites brought into the field was very great:

because the war was of God;
or from the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; he stirred up the Israelites to it, directed, assisted, and succeeded them, that vengeance might be taken on this wicked and idolatrous people:

and they dwelt in their stead until the captivity;
the Targum adds, of Sennacherib king of Assyria; but this captivity of the tribes referred to was not by him, but by Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, ( 1 Chronicles 5:26 ) and they dwelt not in the country of the Arab-hagarites, or Ishmaelites in their stead there, but in Gilead, as in ( 1 Chronicles 5:10 ) which belonged to the Gadites and Reubenites originally, but had been dispossessed of it, or however distressed in it by these Hagarites, which they now drove out, and dwelt in their stead; for as for the Scenite-arabs or Ishmaelites, they never were conquered and brought into subjection by any people, but always maintained their independency ^F4; and lived upon the plunder of their neighbours, pitching their tents here and there for their convenience, which in these parts were at this time spoiled.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 See the notes on Gen. xvi. 12. and Dan. xi. 41. and a dissertation upon the independency of the Arabs, at the end of the Universal History, vol. 20. (See Gill on Genesis 16:12). (See Gill on Daniel 11:41).

1 Cronache 5:22 In-Context

20 Furon soccorsi combattendo contro di loro, e gli Hagareni e tutti quelli ch’eran con essi furon dati loro nelle mani, perché durante il combattimento essi gridarono a Dio, che li esaudì, perché s’eran confidati in lui.

21 Essi presero il bestiame dei vinti: cinquantamila cammelli, duecentocinquantamila pecore, duemila asini, e centomila persone;

22 molti ne caddero morti, perché quella guerra procedeva da Dio. E si stabilirono nel luogo di quelli, fino alla cattività.

23 I figliuoli della mezza tribù di Manasse abitarono anch’essi in quel paese, da Bashan fino a Baal-Hermon e a Senir e al monte Hermon. Erano numerosi,

24 e questi sono i capi delle loro case patriarcali: Efer, Isci, Eliel, Azriel, Geremia, Hodavia, Jahdiel, uomini forti e valorosi, di gran rinomanza, capi delle loro case patriarcali.