Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“These mentioned by name were princes in their families, and their fathers’ house spread exceedingly and they had no place to dwell in.”
The interpretation timeline
1Chr 4:38
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Lutheran
1Chr 4:38 · Douay-Rheims
“These were named princes in their kindreds, and in the houses of their families were multiplied exceedingly.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
766 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Reformed
1871
“increased greatly, and they went to the entrance of Gedor--Simeon having only a part of the land of Judah, they were forced to seek accommodation elsewhere; but their establishment in the new and fertile pastures of Gederah was soon broken up; for, being attacked by a band of nomad plunderers, they were driven from place to place till some of them effected by force a settlement on Mount Seir. Next: 1 Chronicles Chapter 5”
1875
A.D.
Keil & Delitzsch
Lutheran
1861–1875
“And they found fat pasture and good,.... In or near the valley of Gedor: and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; there was room enough for them and their flocks, and they had no enemies on either side to disturb them: for they of Ham had dwelt there of old; either the Canaanites who descended from Canaan the son of Ham, and had never been expelled from thence; or the Philistines, who were a colony of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham; and these inhabitants being of this cursed race, the Simeonites scrupled not to dispossess them.”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.