Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Jump to: Barnes • Benson • BI • Cambridge • Clarke • Darby • Ellicott • Expositor's • Exp Dct • Gaebelein • GSB • Gill • Gray • Guzik • Haydock • Hastings • Homiletics • JFB • KD • Kelly • King • Lange • MacLaren • MHC • MHCW • Parker • Poole • Pulpit • Sermon • SCO • TTB • WES • TSK EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) 5:1-26 Genealogies. - This chapter gives some account of the two tribes and a half seated on the east side of Jordan. They were made captives by the king of Assyria, because they had forsaken the Lord. Only two things are here recorded concerning these tribes. 1. They all shared in a victory. Happy is that people who live in harmony together, who assist each other against the common enemies of their souls, trusting in the Lord, and calling upon him. 2. They shared in captivity. They would have the best land, not considering that it lay most exposed. The desire of earthly objects draws to a distance from God's ordinances, and prepares men for destruction.From this passage and from the subsequent account of the Manassites 1 Chronicles 5:23-24, the Gadites extended themselves to the north at the expense of their brethren, gradually occupying a considerable portion of the tract originally allotted to the "half tribe." 1Ch 5:11-26. The Line of Gad.11-15. the children of Gad dwelt over against them—The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1Ch 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate colony. This Ahi was the head or chief of the houses or families, either,1. Of those seven named 1 Chronicles 5:13; or, 2. Of Abdiel and Guni last named, and of their fifties. Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Which Ahi was a principal man in the families the seven above men belonged to; besides them, or those three, were everyone of them heads of families. Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES) 15. chief of the house of their fathers] R.V. chief of their fathers’ houses.1 Chronicles 5:15The head of their fathers'-houses (i.e., of those mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5:13) as Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, who is conjectured to have lived in the time of King Jotham of Judah, or of Jeroboam II of Israel, when, according to 1 Chronicles 5:17, genealogical registers of the Gadites were made up. Links 1 Chronicles 5:15 Interlinear1 Chronicles 5:15 Parallel Texts 1 Chronicles 5:15 NIV 1 Chronicles 5:15 NLT 1 Chronicles 5:15 ESV 1 Chronicles 5:15 NASB 1 Chronicles 5:15 KJV 1 Chronicles 5:15 Bible Apps 1 Chronicles 5:15 Parallel 1 Chronicles 5:15 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 5:15 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 5:15 French Bible 1 Chronicles 5:15 German Bible Bible Hub |