Numbers Chapter 32 verse 39 Holy Bible
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
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And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
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-- And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it.
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The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
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And sons of Machir son of Manasseh go to Gilead, and capture it, and dispossess the Amorite, who `is' in it;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - The children of Machir. The relation of the Beni-Machir to the tribe of Manasseh is obscure, because all the Manassites were descended from Machir. In the absence of any direct information, we can only guess at the nature of the tie which united the Beni-Machir as a family, and kept them distinct from the other Manassite families. It is evident from their history that they formed a sub-tribe powerful enough to have a name of their own in Israel (cf. verse 40 and Judges 5:14, and see note on verse 41). Went to Gilead. This would seem to refer to the expedition briefly recorded in chapter Numbers 21:33. It is mentioned here out of place, in the simple historical style of the Pentateuch, because the gift of Gilead to Machir grew out of its conquest by Machir. The name Gilead is again used in a very vague sense, for the territory actually allotted to Machir was rather in Bashan than in Gilead proper.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went . . . --Better, Now the children of Machir the son of Manasseh had gone to Gilead, and taken it, &c. (See Note on Numbers 32:33.)
