{"id":10522,"date":"2022-09-24T03:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-656\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:36:01","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-656\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 6:56"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 56<\/strong>. <em> to Caleb<\/em> ] <span class='bible'>Jos 21:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jdg 1:20<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">The writer evidently had before him <span class='bible'>Josh. 21<\/span>, which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient names (<span class='bible'>1Ch 6:58<\/span>, <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:60<\/span>, <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:72<\/span>, etc.); in a few he substituted for the old an entirely new name, the modern apellation, probably, of the ancient site <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:70<\/span>, <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:77<\/span>. At one time, it would seem, his intention was to give the cities of the priests only, and to content himself with stating the mere number of the rest. His account of the matter was then brought to a conclusion, and summed up, in <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:64<\/span>. But, afterward, either he or a later writer thought it best to add to the list of the priestly cities the information contained in Judges as to those which were not priestly, but merely Levitical. The passage <span class='bible'>1 Chr. 6:65-81<\/span> was then added.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">The entire account has suffered much from corruption. In the first list two names, those of Juttah and Gideon, have dropped out. It is necessary to restore them in order to complete the number of thirteen cities <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:60<\/span>. In the second list <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:67-70<\/span> there is likewise an omission of two cities, Eltekeh and Gibbethon, which are wanted to make up the number ten <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:61<\/span>. The third list is complete, though some of the names are very different from these of Joshua. In the fourth, two names are again wanting, those of Jokneam and Kartah.<\/P> <P><span class='bible'><B>1Ch 6:61<\/B><\/span><\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Unto the sons of Kohath which were left &#8211; <\/B>i. e. to such of them as were not priests.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Out of the half tribe &#8230; ten cities &#8211; <\/B>The half tribe furnished two cities only (<span class='bible'>1Ch 6:70<\/span>, and compare <span class='bible'>Jos 21:25<\/span>). It is evident therefore that something has fallen out. We may supply from Joshua the words out of Ephraim and out of Dan, and before out of the half tribe.<\/P> <P><span class='bible'><B>1Ch 6:77<\/B><\/span><\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Unto the rest of the children of Merari &#8211; <\/B>Rather, Unto the rest the children of Merari &#8211; that is to say, unto the remainder of the Levites, who were descendants of Merari: &#8211; the two other branches, the Kohathites and the Gershomites, having been treated of previously.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ch 6:54]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(56) <strong>To Caleb the son of Jephunneh.<\/strong>Josh. adds as his possession.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>the fields: Jos 14:13, Jos 15:13 <\/p>\n<p>Caleb: 1Ch 4:15 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jos 21:13 &#8211; they gave<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 56. to Caleb ] Jos 21:12; Jdg 1:20. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges The writer evidently had before him Josh. 21, which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-656\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 6:56&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}