God’s Word Translation
1 Chronicles 4:43
43They killed the Amalekites who were left. Simeon’s descendants still live there today.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And they defeated the remnant of the 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.
Context of 1 Chronicles 4:43
41In the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, the men listed here knocked down tents and killed the Meunites. They claimed the Meunites for God and destroyed them. (Even today no Meunites live there.) They lived in that land in place of the Meunites in order to have pasture for their flocks. 42Ishi’s sons Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel led 500 of Simeon’s male descendants to Mount Seir. They killed the Amalekites who were left. Simeon’s descendants still live there today.
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 17:14The Lord said to Moses, “Write this reminder on a scroll, and make sure that Joshua hears it, too: I will completely erase any memory of the Amalekites from the earth.”
- Deuteronomy 25:17Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your trip from Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:7Saul attacked the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 30:17From dawn until evening the next day, David attacked them. No one escaped except 400 young men who rode away on camels.
- 2 Samuel 8:12from Edom, Moab, Ammon, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the goods taken from Zobah’s King Hadadezer, son of Rehob.
- Deuteronomy 34:6He was buried in a valley in Moab, near Beth Peor. Even today no one knows where his grave is.
- Judges 1:26The man went to the land of the Hittites. There he built a city and called it Luz. The city still has that name today.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9The poles were so long that their ends could be seen in the holy place by anyone standing in front of the inner room, but they couldn’t be seen outside. (They are still there today.)
- Jeremiah 44:6That is why my fury and anger were poured out and continued to burn in the cities of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem. So they became the desolate ruin that they are today.
- Matthew 27:8That’s why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.
- Matthew 28:15The soldiers took the money and did as they were told. Their story has been spread among the Jewish people 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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