King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 5:23 Mean?
“And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.”
Context
21
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. took: Heb. led captive men: Heb. souls of men
22
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
23
And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
24
And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers. famous: Heb. men of names
25
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(23, 24) The sons of half-Manasseh “in the land” east of Jordan. The translation should be: “And the children . . . dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon. These were many.” Their territory extended from “Bashan,” the domain of Gad, in the south, to the mountains of Hermon, or Antilibanus, in the north.
(23) **Baal-hermon.**—Perhaps the same as Baal-gad (Joshua 12:7; Joshua 13:5), the modern town of *Banias.*
**Senir.**—The Amorite name of the range of Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9). The principal summit is now called *Jebel esh-Sheikh, “*hill of the chief,” and *Jebel eth-Thelj,* “Snow Hill.”
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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