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These <i>were</i> their habitations, and their genealogy.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/1_chronicles/28-9.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/1_chronicles/4.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_chronicles/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(33) <span class= "bld">Unto Baal.</span>—Called in <a href="/joshua/19-8.htm" title="And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.">Joshua 19:8</a> Baalathbeer (“lady of the well”). The same passage adds what appears to be the name of this group of villages, viz., Ramath-negeb, or Ramah of the southland. (Comp. <a href="/1_samuel/30-27.htm" title="To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,">1Samuel 30:27</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">These</span> (Heb., <span class= "ital">this</span>) <span class= "bld">were their habitations.</span>—A conclusion of the list of towns of Simeon.<p><span class= "bld">And their genealogy.</span>—Heb., <span class= "ital">and they had their own registration</span> (or, <span class= "ital">enrolment</span>)<span class= "ital">;</span> that is, though their settlements lay within the territory of Judah, their clans were registered as belonging to a distinct tribe.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_chronicles/4.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>4:1-43 Genealogies. - In this chapter we have a further account of Judah, the most numerous and most famous of all the tribes; also an account of Simeon. The most remarkable person in this chapter is Jabez. We are not told upon what account Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; but we find that he was a praying man. The way to be truly great, is to seek to do God's will, and to pray earnestly. Here is the prayer he made. Jabez prayed to the living and true God, who alone can hear and answer prayer; and, in prayer he regarded him as a God in covenant with his people. He does not express his promise, but leaves it to be understood; he was afraid to promise in his own strength, and resolved to devote himself entirely to God. Lord, if thou wilt bless me and keep me, do what thou wilt with me; I will be at thy command and disposal for ever. As the text reads it, this was the language of a most ardent and affectionate desire, Oh that thou wouldest bless me! Four things Jabez prayed for. 1. That God would bless him indeed. Spiritual blessings are the best blessings: God's blessings are real things, and produce real effects. 2. That He would enlarge his coast. That God would enlarge our hearts, and so enlarge our portion in himself, and in the heavenly Canaan, ought to be our desire and prayer. 3. That God's hand might be with him. God's hand with us, to lead us, protect us, strengthen us, and to work all our works in us and for us, is a hand all-sufficient for us. 4. That he would keep him from evil, the evil of sin, the evil of trouble, all the evil designs of his enemies, that they might not hurt, nor make him a Jabez indeed, a man of sorrow. God granted that which he requested. God is ever ready to hear prayer: his ear is not now heavy.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_chronicles/4.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>And their genealogy - Rather, "and their register was according thereto" - they were registered, i. e. according to the places where they dwelt. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_chronicles/4.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>31-43. These were their cities unto the reign of David—In consequence of the sloth or cowardice of the Simeonites, some of the cities within their allotted territory were only nominally theirs. They were never taken from the Philistines until David's time, when, the Simeonites having forfeited all claim to them, he assigned them to his own tribe of Judah (1Sa 27:6).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/1_chronicles/4.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/1_chronicles/4.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal,.... The same with Baalathbeer, <a href="/joshua/19-8.htm">Joshua 19:8</a>. <p>these were their habitations, and their genealogy; as before described, until the times of David. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_chronicles/4.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_chronicles/4.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">33</span>. <span class="ital">unto Baal</span>] <span class="ital">Baal</span> (“lord”) standing by itself is an unlikely name for a town; the parallel passage. <a href="/joshua/19-8.htm" title="And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.">Joshua 19:8</a>, reads <span class="ital">Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South</span> (“the mistress of the well, the high place of the South”), a better reading.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1 Chronicles 4:33<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/1_chronicles/4.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Concerning the villages belonging to these cities, cf. on <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/19-8.htm">Joshua 19:8</a>, where for בּעל we have the more accurate בּאר בּעלת, and Ramah of the south. The position of these places has not yet been certainly ascertained. "These are their dwelling-places, and their family register was to them;" i.e., although they were only a small tribe and dwelt in the midst of Judah, they yet had their own family register (Berth.). התיחשׂ infin. is used substantively, "the entering in the family register." <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/1_chronicles/4-33.htm">1 Chronicles 4:33 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../1_chronicles/4-32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Chronicles 4:32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 4:32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_chronicles/4-34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Chronicles 4:34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 4:34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>