1Ch 5:18-22 | Clarke

1 Chronicles 5:18-22

Verse 19

They made war with the Hagarites - This is probably the same war that is mentioned 1Chr 5:10. Those called Hagarites in the text are everywhere denominated by the Targum הונגראיי Hongaraai, Hongarites. Verse 20

They put their trust in him - Or, as the Targum says, "Because they trusted במימריה bemeymriah, in his Word." Verse 21

They took away their cattle - This was a war of extermination as to the political state of the people, which nothing could justify but an especial direction of God; and this he could never give against any, unless the cup of their iniquity had been full. The Hagarites were full of idolatry: see 1Chr 5:25. Verse 22

For there fell down many slain - The hundred thousand men mentioned above were probably made slaves, and were not slain. The Targum says, one hundred thousand souls of men.

The war was of God - The Targum says, the war was מן מימרא דיי min meymera dayai, "from the Word of the Lord."