English Standard Version
1 Chronicles 4:43
43And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
1 Chronicles 4:43 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
- New International Version (NIV)They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And they defeated the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped. They have dwelt there to this day.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They destroyed the few Amalekites who had survived, and they have lived there ever since.
Context of 1 Chronicles 4:43
41These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 41 Chronicles 4:43 word by word
וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־שְׁאֵרִ֥ית הַפְּלֵטָ֖ה לַעֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיֵּ֣שְׁבוּ שָׁ֔ם עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 4:43
- Exodus 17:14Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."
- Deuteronomy 25:17"Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,
- 1 Samuel 15:7And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.
- 2 Samuel 8:12from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- Deuteronomy 34:6and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.
- Judges 1:26And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
- Jeremiah 44:6Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
- Matthew 27:8Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
- Matthew 28:15So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 4:43
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 43They smote the rest of the Amalekites - Those who had escaped in the war which Saul made against them, (see 1 Samuel 14:48;), and from David, who had attacked them afterwards, 2 Samuel 8:12. The expedition of the Simeonites mentioned here, against Gedor and Seir, was in the days of Hezekiah; and, as Calmet conjectures, near about the time of the captivity of the ten tribes, when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 43Unto this day - These words are probably taken from the record which the writer of Chronicles had before him, and do not imply that the Simeonites remained undisturbed in their conquests until after the return from the captivity. So 1 Chronicles 4:41.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 34-43The list of men described as leaders of Simeon's wealthy clans (1 Chronicles 4:34–38) leads into the description of Simeon's geographic expansion (4:38–43). The tribe expanded with thirteen family leaders during Hezekiah's time (late 700s BC) in the Gerar area. This might have been part of Hezekiah's military action against Philistine territories (2 Kings 18:8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 31-4331-43. These were their cities unto the reign of David--In consequence of the sloth or cowardice of the Simeonites, some of the cities within their allotted territory were only nominally theirs. They were never taken from the Philistines until David's time, when, the Simeonites having forfeited all claim to them, he assigned them to his own tribe of Judah (1Sa 27:6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 4
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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