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1 Chronicles 4:43
43They killed the remaining 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.
- 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.
- 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
41The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks. 42And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir. They killed the remaining 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 on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Deuteronomy 25:17Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 30:17David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
- 2 Samuel 8:12Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek. He also dedicated the plunder taken from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- Deuteronomy 34:6He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.
- Judges 1:26He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
- Jeremiah 44:6Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.
- Matthew 27:8That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
- Matthew 28:15So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very 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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