Kenath

How Nave’s arranged it

• Also called NOBAH
• A city of GileadNumbers 32:421 Chronicles 2:23

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Numbers 32:42

   And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 32:422 voices

   “And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof,....

   “Kenath - Now Kenawat, an important site near the southern extremity of the tract el-Lejah, and on the western slopes of the mountains of the Hauran. The name given to it by its conqueror, as in other cases, fell ere long into disuse, and the old name has held its ground to this day. The notices, both Scriptural and traditional, of the conquest of northeastern Gilead and Bashan by the Machirites, plainly intimate that it was effected by a few chiefs of great military prowess, who overran rapidly a far larger district than they could colonize.

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2. 1 Chronicles 2:23

   But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 2:232 voices

   “Sons of Machir - Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son- in-law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was betwixt them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.

   “And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them,....

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