Numbers 32:39
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
Webster's Revision
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it.
World English Bible
The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites which were therein.
Barnes's Numbers 32:39 Bible Commentary
The children of Machir - Machir, the son of Manasseh, was long since dead: even his sons had been brought up upon Joseph's knees Genesis 50:23. But the renown acquired by his descendants raised his family almost to the dignity of a tribe; and the Machirites are in the next verse styled Machir, just as the children of Judah or of Ephraim are often spoken of as Judah or Ephraim. So in Judges 5:14 Machir is coupled with Ephraim and Zebulun.
Went - i. e., "had gone:" the statement is preparatory to the ensuing record of the grant to them of the land they had won.
Gilead - More strictly part of north Gilead; which, though inhabited by the Amorites, had belonged to the kingdom of Og. Gilead was the district from which had sprung the ancestress of the Machirites (compare 1 Chronicles 7:14).
