Attributed commentary excerpt
Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 5:11
A historical reference excerpt for this verse. Read it alongside the biblical text and other available sources.
Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
Source: BibleWord.ai's local reference edition of this named work.
The families of the tribe of Gad, and their dwelling-places. - Ch1 5:11. In connection with the preceding statement as to the dwelling-places of the Reubenites, the enumeration of the families of Gad begins with a statement as to their dwelling-places: "Over against them (the Reubenites) dwelt the Gadites in Bashan unto Salcah." Bashan is used here in its wider signification of the dominion of King Og, which embraced the northern half of Gilead, i.e., the part of that district which lay on the north side of the Jabbok, and the whole district of Bashan; cf. on Deu 3:10. Salcah formed the boundary towards the east, and is now Szalchad, about six hours eastward from Bosra (see on Deu 3:10). Ch1 5:12-14 The sons of Gad ( Gen 46:16) are not named here, because the enumeration of the families of Gad had been already introduced by Ch1 5:11, and the genealogical connection of the families enumerated in Ch1 5:12., with the sons of the tribal ancestor, had not been handed down. In Ch1 5:12 four names are mentioned, which are clearly those of heads of families or fathers'-houses, with the addition "in Bashan," i.e., dwelling, for ישׁבוּ is to be repeated or supplied from the preceding verse. - In Ch1 5:13 seven other names occur, the bearers of which are introduced as brothers of those mentioned ( Ch1 5:12), according to their fathers'-houses. They are therefore heads of fathers'-houses, but the district in which they dwelt is not given; whence Bertheau concludes, but wrongly, that the place where they dwelt is not given in the text. The statement which is here omitted follows in Ch1 5:16 at a fitting place; for in Ch1 5:14 and Ch1 5:15 their genealogy, which rightly goes before the mention of their dwelling-place, is given. אלּה, Ch1 5:14, is not to be referred, as Bertheau thinks, to the four Gadites mentioned in Ch1 5:12 and Ch1 5:13, but only to those mentioned in Ch1 5:13. Nothing more was known of those four ( Ch1 5:12) but that they dwelt in Bashan, while the genealogy of the seven is traced up through eight generations to a certain Buz, of whom nothing further is known, as the name בּוּז occurs nowhere else, except in Gen 22:21 as that of a son of Nahor. The names of his ancestors also are not found elsewhere among the Gadites. Ch1 5:15 The head of their fathers'-houses (i.e., of those mentioned in Ch1 5:13) as Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, who is conjectured to have lived in the time of King Jotham of Judah, or of Jeroboam II of Israel, when, according to Ch1 5:17, genealogical registers of the Gadites were made up. Ch1 5:16 The families descended from Buz "dwelt in Gilead," in the part of that district lying to the south of the Jabbok, which Moses had given to the Gadites and Reubenites ( Deu 3:12); "In Bashan and her daughters," that is, in the villages belonging to the cities of Bashan and Gilead inhabited by them (for the suffix in בּבנותיה is to be referred distributively to both districts, or the cities in them). "And in all the pasture grounds (מגרשׁ, cf. on Num 35:2) of Sharon unto their outgoings." שׁרון, Sharon, lay not in Perea, but is a great plain on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from Carmel to near Joppa, famed for its great fertility and its rich growth of flowers ( Sol 2:1; Isa 33:9; Isa 35:2; Isa 55:10). "A Caesarea Palaestinae usque ad oppidum Joppe omnis terra, quae cernitur, dicitur Saronas." Jerome in Onom.; cf. v. Raumer, Pal. S. 50, and Robins. Phys. Geog. S. 123. It is this plain which…
This public page shows a contextual excerpt from the locally available source text.
How to use this source
This excerpt is attributed to its named commentary. It is included as a historical study resource and should be evaluated in light of Scripture and other relevant evidence.
