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.
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Gill's Exposition
And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir,.... In the land of Edom:
having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of…
Adam Clarke
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…
We have here some of the genealogies of the tribe of Simeon (though it was not a tribe of great note), especially the princes of that tribe, Ch1 4:38. Of this tribe it is said that they increased…
Cambridge Bible
they of Ham Canaanites who had not been dispossessed at the Conquest and therefore expected no disturbance at a later time.
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