1 Chronicles 4:41

“And these written by name, etc.] Before in (<130434>1 Chronicles 4:3437), came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; as Dr. Lightfoot f36 thinks, not within the first fourteen years of his reign, when the Syrian army was abroad, and none dost peep out, but in his last fifteen years, when the army was destroyed and gone: and smote their tents; the tents of those who dwelt there for the sake of feeding their flocks, and whose pasturage the Simeonites wanted: and the habitations that were found there; or the Meunaim or Maonites, which the Septuagint Version here calls Mineans, a people sometimes mentioned along with the Philistines, and others: (see <071011>Judges 10:11,12 <132606> 1…”

“The habitations - Rather, “the Mehunim” (compare 2 Chronicles 36:7), called also “Maonites” (see Judges 10:12 note). return to 'Top of Page'”

“4:41 completely destroyed: See “Complete Destruction” Theme Note.”

“these written: Ch1 4:33-38 Hezekiah: Kg2 18:8-12; Isa 14:28-32 the habitations: Or, the Meunnim, or Maonites. Jdg 10:12; Jer 49:20; Act 17:26 pasture: Num 32:1-4 1 Chronicles 4:42”

“The above-mentioned Simeonite princes, with their people, fell upon the peaceful little people of the Hamites in the days of Hezekiah, and smote, i.e., destroyed, their tents, and also the Meunites whom they found there. The Meunites were strangers in this place, and were probably connected with the city Maan in the neighbourhood of Petra, to the east of Wady Musa (cf. on Ch2 20:1 and Ch2 26:7), who dwelt in tents as nomads, with the Hamites in their richly pastured valley. ויּחרימם, and they destroyed them utterly, as the Vulgate rightly renders it, et deleverunt; and J. H. Mich., ad internecionem usque eos exciderunt. The word החרים, to smite with the curse, having gradually lost its…”