约书亚记 17:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

瑪拿西半支派的分地瑪拿西是約瑟的長子，他的支派抽籤所得的地業記在下面；至於瑪拿西的長子，基列的父親瑪吉，因為是個戰士，所以得到基列和巴珊。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
玛 拿 西 是 约 瑟 的 长 子 ， 他 的 支 派 拈 阄 所 得 之 地 记 在 下 面 。 至 於 玛 拿 西 的 长 子 基 列 之 父 （ 父 或 作 ： 主 ） 玛 吉 ， 因 为 是 勇 士 就 得 了 基 列 和 巴 珊 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Then land was given to the tribe of Manasseh, Joseph's first son. Manasseh's first son was Makir, the father of Gilead. Makir was a great soldier, so the lands of Gilead and Bashan were given to his family. ² Land was also given to the other family groups of Manasseh—Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were all the other sons of Manasseh son of Joseph. ³ Zelophehad was the son of Hepher, who was the son of Gilead, who was the son of Makir, who was the son of Manasseh. Zelophehad had no sons, but he had five daughters, named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ⁴ They went to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua son of Nun and all the leaders. They said, "The Lord told Moses to give us land like the men received." So Eleazar obeyed the Lord and gave the daughters some land, just like the brothers of their father. ⁵ So the tribe of Manasseh had ten sections of land west of the Jordan River and two more sections, Gilead and Bashan, on the east side of the Jordan River. ⁶ The daughters of Manasseh received land just as the sons did. Gilead was given to the rest of the families of Manasseh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the firstborn: Genesis 41:51, Genesis 46:20, Genesis 48:18, Deuteronomy 21:17

Machir: Genesis 50:23, Numbers 26:29, Numbers 27:1, Numbers 32:39, Numbers 32:40, Judges 5:14, 1 Chronicles 2:23, 1 Chronicles 7:14, 1 Chronicles 7:15

Gilead: Numbers 26:29, Numbers 32:33, Numbers 32:40, Deuteronomy 3:13-15

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:34 - Manasseh Numbers 33:54 - give the less inheritance Deuteronomy 3:15 - Machir Joshua 22:7 - General Judges 20:1 - with the 2 Samuel 17:26 - General 1 Chronicles 12:31 - the half tribe Psalms 60:7 - Gilead Ezekiel 48:4 - Manasseh

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 16:16
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? No! I will return to you at the right time a year from now, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children, and may you become a group of many peoples.

Genesis 35:11
God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.

Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors Abraham and Isaac served our God, and like a shepherd God has led me all my life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh,.... As well as for the tribe of Ephraim:

for he [was] the firstborn of Joseph; and therefore ought to have his part and share in the lot of the children of Joseph, though Ephraim was preferred before him in the blessing of Jacob. Some think this is given as a reason why he had a double portion, one on the other side Jordan, and another in the land of Canaan:

[to wit], for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead; who was the only son of Manasseh, and so through him, and by his son Gilead, the whole tribe sprung from that patriarch: and

because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan; which were given to his posterity by Moses, and lay on the other side Jordan, see Deuteronomy 3:13. This Machir very likely had shown his warlike disposition and courage in Egypt, and had fought under the kings there against the common enemy of that country; for it is highly probable he was dead before the children of Israel came out from thence, but the same warlike spirit continued in his posterity; they had their part assigned them on the other side Jordan, to defend that country, while the tribes of Reuben and Gad attended to the care of their flocks and herds.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Manasseh, as the “first-born,” was to receive not only the territory on the east of Jordan won by the valor of the Machirites, but also a portion with the other tribes on the west of Jordan, the holy land of promise strictly so called. Thus, though Ephraim took precedence of Manasseh, according to the prediction of Joseph Genesis 48:20, yet Manasseh received “the double portion” which was the special privilege of the first-born Deuteronomy 21:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

The lot of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1, 2.

Case of the daughters of Zelophehad, 3-6.

The borders of Manasseh described, 7-11.

The Canaanites dwell among them, but are laid under tribute,

12, 13.

The children of Joseph complain of the scantiness of their lot,

14-16.

Joshua authorizes them to possess the mountainous wood country

of the Perizzites, and gives them encouragement to expel them,

though they were strong and had chariots of iron, 17, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Joshua 17:1. There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh — It was necessary to mark this because Jacob, in his blessing, (Genesis 48:19-20), did in a certain sense set Ephraim before Manasseh, though the latter was the first-born; but the place here shows that this preference did not affect the rights of primogeniture.

For Machir - because he was a man of war — It is not likely that Machir himself was now alive; if he were, he must have been nearly 200 years old: It is therefore probable that what is spoken here is spoken of his children, who now possessed the lot that was originally designed for their father, who it appears had signalized himself as a man of skill and valour in some of the former wars, though the circumstances are not marked. His descendants, being of a warlike, intrepid spirit, were well qualified to defend a frontier country, which would be naturally exposed to invasion.