John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 5:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, etc.] Not with the Hungarians, as the Targum, a people not then in being; but the Ishmaelites, so called because they descended from Hagar f42, Sarah’s maid; the same that are placed by Pliny f43 and Ptolemy f44 in Arabia, near the Batanaeans, or inhabitants of Bashan; with those the Reubenites made war, in conjunction with the Gadites and half tribe of Manasseh, (<130518>1 Chronicles 5:18,19), perhaps this war might be much about the time Saul relieved Jabeshgilead, and beat the Ammonites, (<091101>1 Samuel 11:1-14) by which the tribes on that side Jordan might be encouraged to it: who fell by their hand; were worsted and conquered by them: and they dwelt in their tents; in which the Arabians used to dwell, because of their flocks; hence some of them were called Scenites: throughout all the east [land] of Gilead; or rather throughout all the land of the Hagarites, which lay to the east of Gilead, as the Vulgate Latin version; or otherwise the land of Gilead itself was their original possession.

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