1 Chronicles 5:23

1 Chronicles 5:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal–hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
• New International Version (NIV)The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).
• English Standard Version (ESV)The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land. Their numbers increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir, or Mount Hermon.

Context of 1 Chronicles 5:23

21They took all their enemies' animals. They included 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep and 2,000 donkeys. They also caught 100,000 people as their prisoners. 22They killed many of their enemy's soldiers because God was fighting for them. Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh's tribe took the land where the Hagrites had lived. They continued to live there until the exile of Judah's people. Half of Manasseh's tribe lived in the region of Bashan, on the east side of the Jordan River. Their borders were Baal-Hermon, Senir and Hermon mountain. They became very many people. 24These men were the leaders of their clans: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel. They were brave soldiers and people respected them. They were leaders of their clans. 25But they turned away from the God that their ancestors had worshipped. He had chased the other nations out of the land where his people now lived. But now they started to worship the gods of those nations.

1 Chronicles 5:23 word by word

וּבְנֵ֗י חֲצִי֙ שֵׁ֣בֶט מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה יָשְׁב֖וּ בָּאָ֑רֶץ מִבָּשָׁ֞ן עַד־בַּ֧עַל חֶרְמ֛וֹן וּשְׂנִ֥יר וְהַר־חֶרְמ֖וֹן הֵ֥מָּה רָבֽוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the childrenבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of the halfחֲצִיchêtsîy · halfH2677
• tribeשֵׁ֫בֶטshêbeţ · tribe: staffH7626
• of Manassehמְנַשֶּׁהmenashsheh · ManassehH4519
• dweltיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• in the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• they increasedרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• from Bashanבָּשָׁןbâshân · BashanH1316
• unto Baal–hermonבַּ֫עַל חֶרְמוֹןba‛al chermôn · (Mount) Baal-hermonH1179
• and Senirשְׂנִירshenîyr ώenîyr · SenirH8149
• and unto mountהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• Hermonחֶרְמוֹןchermôn · (Mount) HermonH2768

Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 5:23

• Genesis 41:51Joseph called his firstborn son Manasseh. Joseph said, ‘God has made me forget all the trouble that my family has given to me.’
• Numbers 21:33After that, the Israelites travelled towards Bashan. Og, the king of Bashan, marched out with his army to fight against them at Edrei.
• Joshua 12:4They killed Og, king of Bashan. He was one of the last Rephaites. He lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
• 1 Kings 4:13Ben-Geber had authority in Ramoth Gilead. That included the villages of Manasseh's son Jair in Gilead. It also included the region of Argob in Bashan with 60 large cities which had strong walls gates with bronze bars.
• Joshua 13:29This is the land that Moses gave to half the tribe of Manasseh, clan by clan.
• Judges 3:3The nations who remained were: the Philistines, with their five kings, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon mountains, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath.
• Ezekiel 27:5They used wood from the pine trees of Senir. They used a cedar tree from Lebanon to make your mast.
• Deuteronomy 3:9(The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon ‘Sirion’. The Amorites call it ‘Senir’.)
• Deuteronomy 3:8So, at that time, we took power over all the land that the two Amorite kings, Og and Bashan, had ruled. Their land was east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon valley to Mount Hermon.
• Deuteronomy 4:48Their land went from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon valley, as far as Mount Sirion (that is Mount Hermon).
• Joshua 13:11It included the land of Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and Maakathites. It included all of Hermon mountain, and Bashan as far as Salecah.
• Psalms 133:3It brings pleasure like the dew on Hermon. It makes the mountains of Zion become wet. That is the place where the Lord has promised to bless his people. He blesses them with life for ever.

Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 5:23

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23“Baal-Hermon,” “Senir” Deuteronomy 3:9, and “Mount Hermon,” are here not so much three names of the one great snow-clad eminence in which the Anti-Lebanon terminates toward the south, as three parts of the mountain - perhaps the “three summits” in which it terminates.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24Chapter 5 lists the family histories for: Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:1–10; compare Genesis 46:9) Gad (1 Chronicles 5:11–17) Manasseh (1 Chronicles 5:23–24) These are the tribes of Israel that settled in Transjordan (the area east of the Jordan River).Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Chronicles 5:23

• Baal-Gad
• Baal-Hermon
• Hermon
• Shenir

In the dictionaries

• Baal
• Bashan
• Manasseh
• Mount Hermon
• Baal-Hermon
• Baalgad
• Baalhermon
• Caesara Philippi
• Hagarene
• Hermon

Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings