1 Chronicles 4:39

Contemporary English Version

When the people needed more pastureland for their flocks and herds, they looked as far as the eastern side of the valley where the town of Gerar is located,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks.

Hebrew Names Version
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

King James Version
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

English Standard Version
They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

New Century Version
They went outside the city of Gedor to the east side of the valley to look for pasture for their flocks.

New English Translation
They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep.

Amplified Bible
So they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

New American Standard Bible
They went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

World English Bible
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they went to the entring in of Gedor, euen vnto the East side of the valley, to seeke pasture for their sheepe.

Legacy Standard Bible
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Berean Standard Bible
and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.

Complete Jewish Bible
Seeking pasture for their flocks they went to the entrance of Geder, as far as the east side of the valley.

Darby Translation
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Easy-to-Read Version
They went to the area outside the town of Gedor to the east side of the valley. They went to that place to look for fields for their sheep and cattle.

George Lamsa Translation
For they who dwelt in it were the first settlers.

Good News Translation
they spread out westward almost to Gerar and pastured their sheep on the eastern side of the valley in which that city is located.

Lexham English Bible
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Literal Translation
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley to look for pasture for their flocks.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they wente forth, that they might come vnto Gedor to the east syde of the valley, to seke pasture for their shepe.

American Standard Version
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Bible in Basic English
And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they went to the entring in of Gedor, euen vnto the eastsyde of the valley, to seke pasture for their sheepe:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

King James Version (1611)
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, euen vnto the East side of the valley, to seeke pasture for their flocks.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they went till they came to Gerara, to the east of Gai, to seek pasture for their cattle.

English Revised Version
And they went to the entering in of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth to entre in to Gador, `til to the eest of the valei, and to seke pasturis to her scheep.

Update Bible Version
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

New King James Version
So they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

New Living Translation
and they traveled to the region of Gerar, in the east part of the valley, seeking pastureland for their flocks.

New Life Bible
They went to the gate of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to look for fields for their flocks.

New Revised Standard
They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
so they went to the entering in of Gerar, unto the east of the valley, - to seek pasture for their flocks;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.

Revised Standard Version
They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

Young's Literal Translation
and they go to the entrance of Gedor, unto the east of the valley, to seek pasture for their flock,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Simeon had five sons: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul. ²⁵ The descendants of Shaul included his son Shallum, his grandson Mibsam, and his great-grandson Mishma. ²⁶ The descendants of Mishma included his son Hammuel, his grandson Zaccur, and his great-grandson Shimei. ²⁷ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. But his brothers did not have as many children, so the Simeon tribe was smaller than the Judah tribe. ²⁸Before David became king, the people of the Simeon tribe lived in the following towns: Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-Shual, Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth-Marcaboth, Hazarsusim, Bethbiri, and Shaaraim. ³² They also lived in the five villages of Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, ³³ as well as in the nearby villages as far as the town of Baal. These are the places where Simeon's descendants had settled, according to their own family records. ³⁴As their families and clans became larger, the people of Simeon had the following leaders: Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, Joel, Jehu, Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, and Ziza. ³⁹ When the people needed more pastureland for their flocks and herds, they looked as far as the eastern side of the valley where the town of Gerar is located, ⁴⁰ and they found a lot of good pastureland that was quiet and undisturbed. This had once belonged to the Hamites,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they went: This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petrea, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.

Gedor: 1 Chronicles 4:4, 1 Chronicles 4:18, Joshua 12:13, Geder, Joshua 15:58

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:7 - I will divide 1 Chronicles 12:7 - Gedor

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they went to the entrance of Gedor,.... There was a city of this name in the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 4:18 but this seems to be further off, and perhaps is the same with Gedaris, mentioned by Strabo l along with Azotus and Askelon, cities that belonged to the Philistines; since it was inhabited by the posterity of Ham, of whom the Philistines were, as in the following verse:

even unto the east side of the valley; which was near to Gedor, and a suitable place:

to seek pasture for their flocks; their sheep and goats.

l Geograph. l. 16. p. 522.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gedor - Rather read, “Gerar” (Septuagint) a fertile district Genesis 26:6-12; 2 Chronicles 14:14-15 in Philistine country.