Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 4:41
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because [there was] pasture there for their flocks.
41. and the habitations ] R.V. and the Meunim. Cp. 2Ch 20:1 (note) and 1Ch 26:7, R.V.
destroyed them utterly ] R.V. mg., devoted them (cp. Jos 6:18; Jos 6:21, R.V.).
in their rooms ] R.V. in their stead. Cp. Luk 14:8, A.V. and R.V.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The habitations – Rather, the Mehunim (compare 2Ch 36:7), called also Maonites (see Jdg 10:12 note).
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
In the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; but a little before their captivity, which was in the sixth year of Hezekiah, 2Ki 17. So their joy in their new, and pleasant, and fruitful possessions lasted but for a very little while.
Smote their tents, i.e. the people dwelling in tents; for so it seems these still did for the conveniency of pasturage.
Destroyed them utterly unto this day, i.e. so as they could never after recover themselves.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And these written by name,…. Before in 1Ch 4:34,
came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; as Dr. Lightfoot m thinks, not within the first fourteen years of his reign, when the Syrian army was abroad, and none dost peep out, but in his last fifteen years, when the army was destroyed and gone:
and smote their tents; the tents of those who dwelt there for the sake of feeding their flocks, and whose pasturage the Simeonites wanted:
and the habitations that were found there; or the Meunaim or Maonites, which the Septuagint Version here calls Mineans, a people sometimes mentioned along with the Philistines, and others: see
Jud 10:11
and destroyed them utterly unto this day: to the writing of this book; they had not then recovered their possessions:
and dwelt in their room, because there was pasture there for their flocks; which was the thing they were in search of.
m Works, vol. 1. p. 111.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The above-mentioned Simeonite princes, with their people, fell upon the peaceful little people of the Hamites in the days of Hezekiah, and smote, i.e., destroyed, their tents, and also the Meunites whom they found there. The Meunites were strangers in this place, and were probably connected with the city Maan in the neighbourhood of Petra, to the east of Wady Musa (cf. on 2Ch 20:1 and 2Ch 26:7), who dwelt in tents as nomads, with the Hamites in their richly pastured valley. , and they destroyed them utterly, as the Vulgate rightly renders it, et deleverunt; and J. H. Mich., ad internecionem usque eos exciderunt . The word , to smite with the curse, having gradually lost its original religious signification, came to be used in a wider sense, to denote complete extirpation, because all accursed persons were slain. Undoubted examples are 2Ch 20:23; 2Ch 32:14; 2Ki 19:11; Isa 37:11; and it is to be so understood here also.
(Note: Bertheau ignores this secondary use of the word, and has drawn from the extremely wide inference, that the Simeonites, impelled by holy enthusiasm, arising from the wondrous deliverance of Judah from the attack of the Assyrian power, and the elevation of feeling which it produced in the community, and filled with the thought awakened by the discourses of the great prophets, that the time had come to extend Israel ‘ s rule, and to bring the conquered peoples under the curse, just as was done in the time of Joshua, had undertaken this war of annexation. But there is unfortunately not a single trace of this enthusiastic thought in the narrative of our verse, for it knows no other motive for the whole undertaking than the purely earthly need to seek and find new pasture lands.)
“Until this day,” i.e., till the composition of the historical work used by the author of the Chronicle, i.e., till the time before the exile.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(41) These who were written by name.The Ameers enumerated in 1Ch. 4:34-37.
Smote their tents.These Hamites, like the men of Laish, were nomades.
And the habitations that were found there.Heb. text, the wells: Heb. marg., the Maonites, in Hebrew a very similar word. LXX., Mivaovs, the Maonites or Minacans. The text may be compared with the Syriac, which reads, And all springs of water that were there they stopped up. But the Margin is probably correct, as the verb which the Syriac supplies is wanting in the Hebrew. The Maonites appear to have been sojourners from Maon, south of the Dead Sea, near Petra, now called Man. (Comp. 2Ch. 20:1.)
Destroyed them utterly.Devoted them to God for destruction; Jos. 6:17, the city shall be accursed unto the Lord. This practice was not peculiar to Israel, but was common to the Semitic races. Mesha, king of Moab, in like manner devoted the inhabitants of Nebo, 7,000 in number, to destruction in the name of Ashtar-Chemosh. (See the Stele of Dibn, lines 14-17, in Dr. Ginsburgs The Moabite Stone.)
Unto this dayThat is, to the time when this record was first written, long before the chronicler borrowed it from his sources.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
41. The habitations that were found there Rather, the Meunim, or Meunites, who were found there. These seem to have been an Arabian tribe of nomads from the vicinity of Mount Seir. Compare 2Ch 26:7.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ch 4:41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because [there was] pasture there for their flocks.
Ver. 41. Came in the days of Hezekiah. ] In the beginning of his reign; for in the sixth year of his reign the ten tribes were carried captive by Shalmaneser. 2Ki 18:10-11 So that it seems these Simeonites did not long enjoy their new conquests God often punisheth the wicked by others as wicked.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
written by name: i.e. in the foregoing list.
the habitations = Maonites, or Mehumims (2Ch 26:7). Compare 1Ch 20:1 and Jdg 10:12.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
these written: 1Ch 4:33-38
Hezekiah: 2Ki 18:8-12, Isa 14:28-32
the habitations: Or, the Meunnim, or Maonites. Jdg 10:12, Jer 49:20, Act 17:26
pasture: Num 32:1-4
Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:22 – steads 2Ch 14:15 – the tents of cattle
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 4:41. These came in the days of Hezekiah But a little before their captivity, which was in the sixth year of Hezekiah, 2 Kings 17. So their joy in their new, pleasant, and fruitful possessions, lasted but for a very little while. And smote their tents The people dwelling in tents; in which, it seems, they continued to dwell for the convenience of pasturage. And destroyed them unto this day So as that they could never after recover themselves.