8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:
The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh shown him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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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,