KJV King James Version
And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
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1 Chronicles 5:23
And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).
WEB World English Bible
The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
ASV American Standard Version
And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the sons of the half of the tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-Hermon, and Senir, and mount Hermon, they have multiplied.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 5
20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that [were] with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
22 For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
24 And these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, [and] heads of the house of their fathers.
25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
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וּבְנֵ֗יH1121 · benson: childחֲצִי֙H2677 · che.tsihalfשֵׁ֣בֶטH7626 · she.vettribe: staffמְנַשֶּׁ֔הH4519 · me.nash.shehManassehיָשְׁב֖וּH3427 · ya.shavto dwellבָּאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמִבָּשָׁ֞ןH1316 · ba.shanBashanעַד־H5704 · adtillבַּ֧עַלH1179 · ba.al cher.mon(Mount) Baal-hermonחֶרְמ֛וֹןH1179 · ba.al cher.mon(Mount) Baal-hermonוּשְׂנִ֥ירH8149 · she.nirSenirוְהַר־H2022 · harmountain: mountחֶרְמ֖וֹןH2768 · cher.mon(Mount) Hermonהֵ֥מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)רָבֽוּ׃H7235 · ra.vahto multiply
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 3:8-9And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;Song of Solomon 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.Psalm 133:3As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.Joshua 13:29-31And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.Joshua 13:11And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
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