Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 4:40
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old.
40. they of Ham ] Canaanites who had not been dispossessed at the Conquest and therefore expected no disturbance at a later time.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 40. They of Ham had dwelt there of old.] These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor, which was situated in the environs of Joppa and Samnia.
Those whom the five hundred Simeonites expelled from Seir were Amalekites, 1Ch 4:43.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They of Ham, i.e. the posterity of that cursed Ham; either the Arabians; or the Canaanites or Philistines, who descended from Ham, Gen 10:6. And accordingly these words contain a reason, either,
1. To prove that the land was good; because the Arabians, who, being wholly given to pasturage, used to find out the choicest grounds, had formerly pitched their tents there. Or,
2. Why they went and possessed this place, because it was not in the hands of their brethren of Judah, but in the possession of that people which they had authority and command to expel.
Had dwelt there of old, i.e. had possessed it of old and hitherto. Or, dwelt there before, i.e. before they came and cast them out of their possessions.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
31-43. These were their cities untothe reign of DavidIn consequence of the sloth or cowardice ofthe Simeonites, some of the cities within their allotted territorywere only nominally theirs. They were never taken from thePhilistines until David’s time, when, the Simeonites having forfeitedall claim to them, he assigned them to his own tribe of Judah (1Sa27:6).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they found fat pasture and good,…. In or near the valley of Gedor:
and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; there was room enough for them and their flocks, and they had no enemies on either side to disturb them:
for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old; either the Canaanites who descended from Canaan the son of Ham, and had never been expelled from thence; or the Philistines, who were a colony of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham; and these inhabitants being of this cursed race, the Simeonites scrupled not to dispossess them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(40) And they found fat pasture and good.If Gerar was the right reading in 1Ch. 4:39, we might compare Gen. 26:17 seq.
And the land was wide.Gen. 34:21. Literally, broad of both handsi.e., on both sides. An open plain is meant.
And quiet and peaceable.Like Laish, which the Danites took by surprise (Jdg. 18:7; Jdg. 18:28).
They of Ham had dwelt there of old.That is, they who were then dwelling there were Hamites or Canaanites (1Ch. 1:8).
Of old.Literally, before (lephnm); that is, before the Simeonite invasion.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old.
Ver. 40. And they found fat pasture and good. ] This tempted the Simeonites to set upon them, as the wealth of Cyprus did the old Romans; a and as the pearls usually cast out with the flood and gathered at the ebb, drew Caesar’s affection for the conquest of Britain. b
For quiet, and peaceable.
And they of Ham had dwelt there.
a Sext. Rufus
b Suetonius, Julius Caesar, l. 1. c. 47. 1:95
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the land: Jdg 18:7-10
Ham: These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor. Gen 9:22-29, Gen 10:6, Psa 78:51, Psa 105:23
Reciprocal: Gen 14:5 – Zuzims Gen 49:7 – I will divide
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 4:40. They found fat pasture, &c. Those who thus dwelt (as we do) in a fruitful country, and whose land is wide, and quiet, and peaceable, have reason to own themselves indebted to that God, who appoints the bounds o four habitation. Of Ham The Canaanites, who descended from Ham. And, accordingly, these words contain a reason why they went and possessed this place, because it was not in the hands of their brethren of Judah, but in the possession of that people which they had authority to expel.