16 And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.
And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys;
I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
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Commentary on 1 Chronicles 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
This chapter gives us some account of the two tribes and a half that were seated on the other side Jordan.
1Ch 5:1-17
We have here an extract out of the genealogies,
1Ch 5:18-26
The heads of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that were seated on the other side Jordan, are named here, v. 23, 24. Their lot, at first, was Bashan only; but afterwards they increased so much in wealth and power that they spread far north, even unto Hermon. Two things only are here recorded concerning these tribes on the other side Jordan, in which they were all concerned. They all shared,