10And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
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The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. …
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)We have here an extract out of the genealogies, I. Of the tribe of Reuben, where we have, 1. The reason why this tribe is thus postponed. It is confessed that Reuben was the first-born of Israel, and, upon that account, might challenge the precedency; but he forfeited his birthright by defiling his father’s concubine, and was, for that, sentenced not to excel , Gen. 49:4. Sin lessens men, thrusts…
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