Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 4:38
These mentioned by [their] names [were] princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
These mentioned by their names were princes – The registered chiefs of the cities in the first list 1Ch 4:28-31, in the time of Hezekiah 1Ch 4:41.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
These named 1Ch 4:34-37.
The house of their fathers increased greatly which forced them to seek for new and larger habitations.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
38, 39. increased greatly, and theywent to the entrance of GedorSimeon having only a part of theland of Judah, they were forced to seek accommodation elsewhere; buttheir establishment in the new and fertile pastures of Gederah wassoon broken up; for, being attacked by a band of nomad plunderers,they were driven from place to place till some of them effected byforce a settlement on Mount Seir.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
These mentioned by [their] names [were] princes in their families,…. The principal men of them, heads of their fathers’ houses:
and the house of their fathers increased greatly; by them, so that they were obliged to seek out for new habitations, as follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“These mentioned by their names were princes in their families; whose fathers’-houses had increased to a multitude. And they went,” etc. , properly “those who have come with their names,” i.e., those who have been mentioned by name; for with = to come with, is to bring something in, to introduce: cf. Psa 71:16. This formula is synonymous with , 1Ch 4:41; but we cannot consider it, as J. H. Mich., Berth., and others do, identical in meaning with , 1Ch 12:31; Num 1:17, etc. The predicate to is , and is a relative sentence, more accurately defining the subject . Princes in their families are not heads of families, but heads of fathers’-houses, into which the families had divided themselves. is not construed with the plural, as being collective (Berth.), but as the plural of the word : cf. Ew. 270, c.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(38) These mentioned by their names.Literally, these who have come (forward) with names, that is, have been adduced by name.
Were princes in their families.Ameers or chieftains in their clans.
And the house of their fathers increased.And their father-houses had spread greatly. Finding their territory too strait for them under these conditions, and probably also because of the encroachments of their powerful neighbours, the Judans and Philistines, the Simeonite chieftains went forth at the head of their clans to seek new settlements.
And (so) they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley.Gedor can hardly be the town of that name in the hill country of Judah (Jos. 15:58). The LXX. read Gerar ().
Even unto the east side of the valley.So far as to the east of the valley, that is, apparently, the valley of or near the unknown Gedor, or Gerar. The only considerable valley south-east of Judah is the Arabah, below the Dead Sea. That this locality is meant appears likely from the vicinity of Mount Seir and the Amalekites (1Ch. 4:42).
To seek pasture for their flocks.This statement is of interest as proving that even so late as the reign of Hezekiah, those Israelite clans which bordered on the desert were still nomades, like the Beidawis. (Comp. Gen. 13:5-12).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
mentioned by their names: Heb. coming by names, 1Ch 5:24, Gen 6:4