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Selected Verse: Numbers 32:42 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 32:42 |
Strong Concordance |
And Nobah [05025] went [01980] and took [03920] Kenath [07079], and the villages [01323] thereof, and called [07121] it Nobah [05025], after his own name [08034]. |
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King James |
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Nobah--also a distinguished person connected with the eastern branch of the tribe of Manasseh. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Kenath - Now Kenawat, an important site near the southern extremity of the tract el-Lejah, and on the western slopes of the mountains of the Hauran. The name given to it by its conqueror, as in other cases, fell ere long into disuse, and the old name has held its ground to this day.
The notices, both Scriptural and traditional, of the conquest of northeastern Gilead and Bashan by the Machirites, plainly intimate that it was effected by a few chiefs of great military prowess, who overran rapidly a far larger district than they could colonize. The father of Jair, however, Segub, was of the tribe of Judah (compare Num 27:1, and note; Ch1 2:21-22), and it is likely that the Manassite leaders induced many of the more adventurous of this tribe, and some possibly of other tribes, to join them in their enterprise against Bashan (see Jos 19:34).
The Machirites did not exterminate the whole population of this district (see Jos 13:15, etc.). The conquest of the district east of Jordan seems never to have been so effectually accomplished as that on the other side.
During the troublous times of the Judges the eastern Manassites rendered good service to the nation; compare Jdg 5:14. Gideon, and probably Jephthah, were of this tribe, and reflect in a later generation the warlike and adventurous spirit which Jair and Nobah exhibited in the days of Moses. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Nobah, whose family is never referred to, but who probably belonged, like Jair, to one of the families of Machirites, took the town of Kenath and its daughters, i.e., the smaller towns dependent upon it (see Num 21:25), and gave it his own name Nobah. The name has not been preserved, and is not to be sought, as Kurtz supposes, in the village of Nowa (Newe), in Jotan, which is mentioned by Burckhardt (p. 443), and was once a town of half an hour's journey in circumference. For Kenath, which is only mentioned again in Ch1 2:23 as having been taken from the Israelites by Gesur and Aram, is Κάναθα, which Josephus (de bell. Jud. i. 19, 2), and Ptolemy speak of as belonging to Coelesyria, and Pliny (h. n. 5, 16) to Decapolis, and which was situated, according to Jerome, "in the region of Trachonitis, near to Bostra." The ruins are very extensive even now, being no less than 2 1/2 or 3 miles in circumference, and containing magnificent remains of palaces from the times of Trajan and Hadrian. It is on the western slope of Jebel Hauran, and is only inhabited by a few families of Druses. The present name is Kanuat. (For description, see Seetzen, i. pp. 78ff.; Burckhardt, pp. 157ff.; cf. Ritter, Erdk.) |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Nobah - Who, though not else where named, was doubtless an eminent person of the tribe of Manasseh. 'Tis observable, that these tribes, as they were placed before the other tribes, so they were displaced before them. They were carried captive by the king of Assyria, some years before the other tribes. Such a proportion does providence frequently observe, in balancing prosperity and adversity. |
14 Out of Ephraim [0669] was there a root [08328] of them against Amalek [06002]; after [0310] thee, Benjamin [01144], among thy people [05971]; out of Machir [04353] came down [03381] governors [02710], and out of Zebulun [02074] they that handle [04900] the pen [07626] of the writer [05608].
15 And Moses [04872] gave [05414] unto the tribe [04294] of the children [01121] of Reuben [07205] inheritance according to their families [04940].
34 And then the coast [01366] turneth [07725] westward [03220] to Aznothtabor [0243], and goeth out [03318] from thence to Hukkok [02712], and reacheth [06293] to Zebulun [02074] on the south side [05045], and reacheth [06293] to Asher [0836] on the west side [03220], and to Judah [03063] upon Jordan [03383] toward the sunrising [04217] [08121].
21 And afterward [0310] Hezron [02696] went in [0935] to the daughter [01323] of Machir [04353] the father [01] of Gilead [01568], whom he married [03947] when he was threescore [08346] years [08141] old [01121]; and she bare [03205] him Segub [07687].
22 And Segub [07687] begat [03205] Jair [02971], who had three [07969] and twenty [06242] cities [05892] in the land [0776] of Gilead [01568].
1 Then came [07126] the daughters [01323] of Zelophehad [06765], the son [01121] of Hepher [02660], the son [01121] of Gilead [01568], the son [01121] of Machir [04353], the son [01121] of Manasseh [04519], of the families [04940] of Manasseh [04519] the son [01121] of Joseph [03130]: and these are the names [08034] of his daughters [01323]; Mahlah [04244], Noah [05270], and Hoglah [02295], and Milcah [04435], and Tirzah [08656].
23 And he took [03947] Geshur [01650], and Aram [0758], with the towns [02333] of Jair [02971], from them, with Kenath [07079], and the towns [01323] thereof, even threescore [08346] cities [05892]. All these belonged to the sons [01121] of Machir [04353] the father [01] of Gilead [01568].
25 And Israel [03478] took [03947] all these cities [05892]: and Israel [03478] dwelt [03427] in all the cities [05892] of the Amorites [0567], in Heshbon [02809], and in all the villages [01323] thereof.