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Verse	Translation	Text
1Ch 5:23	Strong Concordance	And the children [01121] of the half [02677] tribe [07626] of Manasseh [04519] dwelt [03427] in the land [0776]: they increased [07235] from Bashan [01316] unto Baalhermon [01179] and Senir [08149], and unto mount [02022] Hermon [02768].
	King James	And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
"Baal-Hermon," "Senir" Deu 3:9, and "Mount Hermon," are here not so much three names of the one great snow-clad eminence in which the Anti-Lebanon terminates toward the south, as three parts of the mountain - perhaps the "three summits" in which it terminates.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

"Baal-Hermon," "Senir" Deu 3:9, and "Mount Hermon," are here not so much three names of the one great snow-clad eminence in which the Anti-Lebanon terminates toward the south, as three parts of the mountain - perhaps the "three summits" in which it terminates.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The families of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, and the leading away of the East-Jordan Israelites into the Assyrian exile. - Ch1 5:23. The half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan was very numerous (רבוּ המּה), "and they dwelt in the land of Bashan (i.e., the Bashan inhabited by Gad, Ch1 5:12) (northwards) to Baal Hermon," - i.e., according to the more accurate designation of the place in Jos 12:7 and Jos 13:5, in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon, probably the present Bnjas, at the foot of Hermon (see on Num 34:8), - "and Senir and Mount Hermon." שׂניר, which according to Deu 3:9 was the name of Hermon or Antilibanus in use among the Amorites, is here and in Eze 27:5 the name of a part of those mountains (vide on Deu 3:9), just as "mount Hermon" is the name of another part of this range. Ch1 5:24 Seven heads of fathers'-houses of the half-tribe of Manasseh are enumerated, and characterized as valiant heroes and famous men. The enumeration of the names begins strangely with ו (ואפר); perhaps a name has fallen out before it. Nothing has been handed down as to any of these names. Ch1 5:25-26 Ch1 5:25 and Ch1 5:26 form the conclusion of the register of the two and a half trans-Jordanic tribes. The sons of Manasseh are not the subject to ויּמעלוּ, but the Reubenites and Manassites, as is clear from Ch1 5:26. These fell away faithlessly from the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed before them, i.e., the Amorites or Canaanites. "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of the Assyrian kings Pul and Tiglath-pilneser, and he (this latter) led them away captives to Halah and Habor," etc. את־רוּח ויּער, Lavater has rightly rendered, "in mentem illis dedit, movit eos, ut expeditionem facerent contra illos;" cf. Ch2 21:16. Pul is mentioned as being the first Assyrian king who attacked the land of Israel, cf. Kg2 15:19. The deportation began, however, only with Tiglath-pileser, who led the East-Jordan tribes into exile, Kg2 15:29. To him ויּגלם sing. refers. The suffix is defined by the following acc., וגו לרעוּבני; ל is, according to the later usage, nota acc.; cf. Ew. 277, e. So also before the name חלח, "to Halah," i.e., probably the district Καλαχήνη (in Strabo) on the east side of the Tigris near Adiabene, to the north of Nineveh, on the frontier of Armenia (cf. on Kg2 17:6). In the second book of Kings (Ch1 15:29) the district to which the two and a half tribes were sent as exiles is not accurately determined, being only called in general Asshur (Assyria). The names in our verse are there (Kg2 17:6) the names of the districts to which Shalmaneser sent the remainder of the ten tribes after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel. It is therefore questionable whether the author of the Chronicle took his account from an authority used by him, or if he names these districts only according to general recollection, in which the times of Shalmaneser and of Tiglath-pileser are not very accurately distinguished (Berth.). We consider the first supposition the more probable, not merely because he inverts the order of the names, but mainly because he gives the name הרא instead of "the cities of Media," as it is in Kings, and that name he could only have obtained from his authorities. חבור is not the river Chaboras in Mesopotamia, which falls into the Euphrates near Circesium, for that river is called in Ezekiel כּבר, but is a district in northern Assyria, where Jakut mentions that there is both a mountain Χαβώρας on the frontier of Assyria and Media (Ptolem. vi. 1), and a river Khabur Chasaniae, which still bears the old name Khbur, rising in the neighbourhood of the upper Zab, near Amadijeh, and falling into the Tigris below Jezirah. This Khbur is the river of Gozan (vide on Kg2 17:6). The word הרא appears to be the Aramaic form of the Hebrew הר, mountains, and the vernacular designation usual in the mouths of the people of the mountain land of Media, which is called also in Arabic el Jebl (the mountains). This name can therefore only have been handed down from the exiles who dwelt there.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The families of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, and the leading away of the East-Jordan Israelites into the Assyrian exile. - Ch1 5:23. The half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan was very numerous (רבוּ המּה), "and they dwelt in the land of Bashan (i.e., the Bashan inhabited by Gad, Ch1 5:12) (northwards) to Baal Hermon," - i.e., according to the more accurate designation of the place in Jos 12:7 and Jos 13:5, in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon, probably the present Bnjas, at the foot of Hermon (see on Num 34:8), - "and Senir and Mount Hermon." שׂניר, which according to Deu 3:9 was the name of Hermon or Antilibanus in use among the Amorites, is here and in Eze 27:5 the name of a part of those mountains (vide on Deu 3:9), just as "mount Hermon" is the name of another part of this range.

Ch1 5:24

Seven heads of fathers'-houses of the half-tribe of Manasseh are enumerated, and characterized as valiant heroes and famous men. The enumeration of the names begins strangely with ו (ואפר); perhaps a name has fallen out before it. Nothing has been handed down as to any of these names.

Ch1 5:25-26

Ch1 5:25 and Ch1 5:26 form the conclusion of the register of the two and a half trans-Jordanic tribes. The sons of Manasseh are not the subject to ויּמעלוּ, but the Reubenites and Manassites, as is clear from Ch1 5:26. These fell away faithlessly from the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed before them, i.e., the Amorites or Canaanites. "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of the Assyrian kings Pul and Tiglath-pilneser, and he (this latter) led them away captives to Halah and Habor," etc. את־רוּח ויּער, Lavater has rightly rendered, "in mentem illis dedit, movit eos, ut expeditionem facerent contra illos;" cf. Ch2 21:16. Pul is mentioned as being the first Assyrian king who attacked the land of Israel, cf. Kg2 15:19. The deportation began, however, only with Tiglath-pileser, who led the East-Jordan tribes into exile, Kg2 15:29. To him ויּגלם sing. refers. The suffix is defined by the following acc., וגו לרעוּבני; ל is, according to the later usage, nota acc.; cf. Ew. 277, e. So also before the name חלח, "to Halah," i.e., probably the district Καλαχήνη (in Strabo) on the east side of the Tigris near Adiabene, to the north of Nineveh, on the frontier of Armenia (cf. on Kg2 17:6). In the second book of Kings (Ch1 15:29) the district to which the two and a half tribes were sent as exiles is not accurately determined, being only called in general Asshur (Assyria). The names in our verse are there (Kg2 17:6) the names of the districts to which Shalmaneser sent the remainder of the ten tribes after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel. It is therefore questionable whether the author of the Chronicle took his account from an authority used by him, or if he names these districts only according to general recollection, in which the times of Shalmaneser and of Tiglath-pileser are not very accurately distinguished (Berth.). We consider the first supposition the more probable, not merely because he inverts the order of the names, but mainly because he gives the name הרא instead of "the cities of Media," as it is in Kings, and that name he could only have obtained from his authorities. חבור is not the river Chaboras in Mesopotamia, which falls into the Euphrates near Circesium, for that river is called in Ezekiel כּבר, but is a district in northern Assyria, where Jakut mentions that there is both a mountain Χαβώρας on the frontier of Assyria and Media (Ptolem. vi. 1), and a river Khabur Chasaniae, which still bears the old name Khbur, rising in the neighbourhood of the upper Zab, near Amadijeh, and falling into the Tigris below Jezirah. This Khbur is the river of Gozan (vide on Kg2 17:6). The word הרא appears to be the Aramaic form of the Hebrew הר, mountains, and the vernacular designation usual in the mouths of the people of the mountain land of Media, which is called also in Arabic el Jebl (the mountains). This name can therefore only have been handed down from the exiles who dwelt there.

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⁹ (Which Hermon [02768] the Sidonians [06722] call [07121] Sirion [08303]; and the Amorites [0567] call [07121] it Shenir [08149];)

⁶ In the ninth [08671] year [08141] of Hoshea [01954] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] took [03920] Samaria [08111], and carried [01540] Israel [03478] away [01540] into Assyria [0804], and placed [03427] them in Halah [02477] and in Habor [02249] by the river [05104] of Gozan [01470], and in the cities [05892] of the Medes [04074].

²⁹ And it came to pass, as the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068] came [0935] to the city [05892] of David [01732], that Michal [04324] the daughter [01323] of Saul [07586] looking out [08259] at a window [02474] saw [07200] king [04428] David [01732] dancing [07540] and playing [07832]: and she despised [0959] him in her heart [03820].

²⁹ In the days [03117] of Pekah [06492] king [04428] of Israel [03478] came [0935] Tiglathpileser [08407] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and took [03947] Ijon [05859], and Abelbethmaachah [062], and Janoah [03239], and Kedesh [06943], and Hazor [02674], and Gilead [01568], and Galilee [01551], all the land [0776] of Naphtali [05321], and carried them captive [01540] to Assyria [0804].

¹⁹ And Pul [06322] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] came [0935] against the land [0776]: and Menahem [04505] gave [05414] Pul [06322] a thousand [0505] talents [03603] of silver [03701], that his hand [03027] might be with him to confirm [02388] the kingdom [04467] in his hand [03027].

¹⁶ Moreover the LORD [03068] stirred up [05782] against Jehoram [03088] the spirit [07307] of the Philistines [06430], and of the Arabians [06163], that were near [05921] [03027] the Ethiopians [03569]:

²⁶ And the God [0430] of Israel [03478] stirred up [05782] the spirit [07307] of Pul [06322] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and the spirit [07307] of Tilgathpilneser [08407] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and he carried them away [01540], even the Reubenites [07206], and the Gadites [01425], and the half [02677] tribe [07626] of Manasseh [04519], and brought [0935] them unto Halah [02477], and Habor [02249], and Hara [02024], and to the river [05104] Gozan [01470], unto this day [03117].

²⁵ And they transgressed [04603] against the God [0430] of their fathers [01], and went a whoring [02181] after [0310] the gods [0430] of the people [05971] of the land [0776], whom God [0430] destroyed [08045] before [06440] them.
²⁶ And the God [0430] of Israel [03478] stirred up [05782] the spirit [07307] of Pul [06322] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and the spirit [07307] of Tilgathpilneser [08407] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and he carried them away [01540], even the Reubenites [07206], and the Gadites [01425], and the half [02677] tribe [07626] of Manasseh [04519], and brought [0935] them unto Halah [02477], and Habor [02249], and Hara [02024], and to the river [05104] Gozan [01470], unto this day [03117].

²⁴ And these were the heads [07218] of the house [01004] of their fathers [01], even Epher [06081], and Ishi [03469], and Eliel [0447], and Azriel [05837], and Jeremiah [03414], and Hodaviah [01938], and Jahdiel [03164], mighty [01368] men [0582] of valour [02428], famous [08034] men [0582], and heads [07218] of the house [01004] of their fathers [01].

⁹ (Which Hermon [02768] the Sidonians [06722] call [07121] Sirion [08303]; and the Amorites [0567] call [07121] it Shenir [08149];)

⁵ They have made [01129] all thy ship boards [03871] of fir trees [01265] of Senir [08149]: they have taken [03947] cedars [0730] from Lebanon [03844] to make [06213] masts [08650] for thee.

⁹ (Which Hermon [02768] the Sidonians [06722] call [07121] Sirion [08303]; and the Amorites [0567] call [07121] it Shenir [08149];)

⁸ From mount [02022] Hor [02023] ye shall point out [08376] your border unto the entrance [0935] of Hamath [02574]; and the goings forth [08444] of the border [01366] shall be to Zedad [06657]:

⁵ And the land [0776] of the Giblites [01382], and all Lebanon [03844], toward the sunrising [04217] [08121], from Baalgad [01171] under mount [02022] Hermon [02768] unto the entering [0935] into Hamath [02574].

⁷ And these are the kings [04428] of the country [0776] which Joshua [03091] and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] smote [05221] on this side [05676] Jordan [03383] on the west [03220], from Baalgad [01171] in the valley [01237] of Lebanon [03844] even unto the mount [02022] Halak [02510], that goeth up [05927] to Seir [08165]; which Joshua [03091] gave [05414] unto the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478] for a possession [03425] according to their divisions [04256];

¹² Joel [03100] the chief [07218], and Shapham [08223] the next [04932], and Jaanai [03285], and Shaphat [08202] in Bashan [01316].

²³ And the children [01121] of the half [02677] tribe [07626] of Manasseh [04519] dwelt [03427] in the land [0776]: they increased [07235] from Bashan [01316] unto Baalhermon [01179] and Senir [08149], and unto mount [02022] Hermon [02768].