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Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things. 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: Ex. 17,16. 7: Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. Ne 26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and sixteen daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, Ge 6.9 30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim.

167. These were their cities unto the reign of David. 32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

Ver. 15. Caleb.—See (Numbers 13:6, 30).; xiv. 6.
Ver. 17. Ezra.—Ezra seems to be the person before called Asareel in verse 16.—She bare Miriam.—It is probable that the latter part of ver. 18 should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father being mentioned.—Bagster.
Ver. 18. Gedor.—Gedor was a city in the tribe of Judah: and probably the same which Eusebius calls Kedous, and Jerome, Gedrus, 10 miles from Diospolis or Lydda, towards Eleutheropolis.—Bagster.

Ver. 20. Shimon.—Shimon is supposed to have been another son of Mered, by Jehudijah. As this latter name signifies a Jewess, it rather favours the opinion that Bithiah was not a Jewess, but an Egyptian.—Bagster.
Ver. 21. Shelah.—(Genesis 38:1-5).—Mareshah.—Mareshah was a city of Judah, situated two miles from Eleutheropolis, according to Eusebius, in whose time it was deserted. In the latter times of the Jewish commonwealth it belonged to the Idumeans; was peopled by the Jews and their allies in the time of John Hyrcanus; was taken from the Arabians by king Alexander Jannius; restored to its first inhabitants by Pompey; rebuilt by Gabinius; and destroyed by Janus, in the war of Antigonus against Herod.—Josephus.—Bagster.

and conquest of the enemies. 11 The chief men and habitations of Gad. 18 The number and conquest of Reuben, Gad, and the half of Manasseh. 23 The habitations and chief men of that half tribe. 25 Their captivity for their sin. Now the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel, (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.) 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:) 3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the first-born of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and 4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, 6 Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Ayroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon: 9 And eastward he inhabited unto the enter-

Ver. 24. Sons of Simeon.—See (Genesis 46:10).
Ver. 28. Beer-sheba.—See (Joshua 19:2), &c. Beer-sheba was situated 20 miles south of Hebron, according to Eusebius and Jerome, in whose time it was occupied by a Roman garrison.—Bagster.
Ver. 31. Unto the reign of David.—David added some cities to the tribe of Judah, Ziklag for instance, (1 Samuel 27:6), and probably others.
Ver. 41. In the days of Hezekiah.—See (2 Kings 18)

8. [This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah; and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes, when the remnant of themselves [were] obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petraea, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.]—Bagster.
   Ver. 43. Rest of the Amalekites.—Who had escaped from Saul, (1 Samuel 14:48), and from David, (2 Samuel 8:12).: Chap. V.
   Ver. 1. The sons of Reuben.—See (Genesis 29:32), xlix. 10. The ruler is meant, first David, and after

Ver. 2. Chief ruler.—By the chief ruler the Syriac calls him, “Christ the king,” the Messiah, agreeably to the celebrated prophecy of Jacob. “Messiah the king.” —Bagster.

Ver. 6. Pilneser.—After their separation from the house of David, the ten tribes continued to have princes of the tribes, till the time that Tiglath-pileser carried them captive; at which time Beerah, who according to the Targum was the same as Baruch, was their prince. (2 Kings 15:29).—Bagster.
Ver. 11. Gad.—The Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh are joined to the genealogy of Reuben, because they inhabited the same country, and formed a sort of separate colony east of Jordan.—Bagster.
Ver. 16. Skaron.—There were three places of this name in Palestine; which was almost proverbial, to express a place of extraordinary beauty and fertility. There was a district of Skaron between mount Tabor and the sea of Tiberias, mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome; another, which lay between Cesarea of Palestine and Joppa, celebrated by the Jewish Rabbins for its wines; and that mentioned here, which must have been east of Jordan, in the country of Bashan, because inhabited by the Gadites.—Bagster.
Ver. 21. Camels.—The camel, in Hebrew gamal, retained with little variation in all languages, is, according to the Linnæan system, a genus of quadrupeds of the order pecora; comprehending the camel, properly so called, with two prominences; the dromedary with a single one; the Danas or Pecorian camel, with a even and breast gibbose; and the pacos, or camel without any gibbosity. The camel, properly so called, is about 6 1-2 feet in height: its head is small; ears short; neck long, slender, and opening; legs long and slender, having four callosities on the fore legs and two on the hinder, on which it rests; feet soft, parted, but not thoroughly divided; bottom of the foot tough and pliant; tail about two feet in length, terminating in a tuft: and hair fine, soft, of considerable length, and of a dusky reddish colour.

Besides the same internal structure as other ruminating animals, it is furnished with an additional bag for containing a quantity of water till wanted.—B.
Ver. 26. Pul, &c.—See (2 Kings 15:19, 29). xvii. 6. xviii. 11.