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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And I gave Gilead unto Machir. The son of Manasseh; not to him personally, who cannot be thought to have been living at this time, but to his posterity, to the Machirites; see Num 32:40.
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Having shown how this country which they were now in was conquered, in these verses he shows how it was settled upon the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, which we had the story of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And I gave Gilead unto Machir Not irreconcilable with Deu 3:3 where the N. half of Gile-ad is assigned to half-Manasseh, for Machir was held to have been the first and only son of Manasseh, and,…
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