1 Chronicles 5:23

The half tribe of Manasseh lived in the land of Bashan as far as Baal Hermon and Senir (that is, Mount Hermon).

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And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

In Context

22Many fell because the battle was from God. They lived in their land until the captivity.

24These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were mighty men, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

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Cross References

Numbers 26:28The clans of Joseph's descendants were Manasseh and Ephraim.

Deuteronomy 3:9(Mount Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir)

Joshua 13:11Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, all Bashan to Salekah;

Psalms 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon 1 which falls on the mountains of Zion. 1 For there Yahweh commanded the blessing— 1 life forevermore.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 5:19-26

The Defeat of the Hagarites. ( b. c. 750.) 18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the… Read the whole commentary →

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