King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 4:39 Mean?
“And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.”
Context
37
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
38
These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly. mentioned: Heb. coming
39
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide , and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
41
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary**14-19. Hezekiah received the letter ... and went up into the house of the Lord--**Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith before the Lord, as containing taunts deeply affecting the divine honor, and implored deliverance from this proud defier of God and man. The devout spirit of this prayer, the recognition of the Divine Being in the plenitude of His majesty--so strikingly contrasted with the fancy of the Assyrians as to His merely local power; his acknowledgment of the conquests obtained over other lands; and of the destruction of their wooden idols which, according to the Assyrian practice, were committed to the flames--because their tutelary deities were no gods; and the object for which he supplicated the divine interposition--that all the kingdoms of the earth might know that the Lord was the only God--this was an attitude worthy to be assumed by a pious theocratic king of the chosen people.
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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