Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The children of Machir - Machir, the son of Manasseh, was long since dead: even his sons had been brought up upon Joseph' s knees Genesis 50:23. But the renown acquired by his descendants raised his family almost to the dignity of a tribe; and the Machirites are in the next verse styled Machir, just as the children of Judah or of Ephraim are often spoken of as Judah or Ephraim. So in Judges 5:14 Machir is coupled with Ephraim and Zebulun.
Went - i. e., "had gone:" the statement is preparatory to the ensuing record of the grant to them of the land they had won.
Gilead - More strictly part of north Gilead; which, though inhabited by the Amorites, had belonged to the kingdom of Og. Gilead was the district from which had sprung the ancestress of the Machirites (compare I Chronicles 7:14).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 32:39:
Exodus 23:31
Numbers 21:33
Numbers 32:33
Numbers 32:33
Psalms 60:7
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