Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“And they went therefore to the approach to Gedor, etc. to seek pasture for their flocks.”
The interpretation timeline
1Chr 4:39
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Jewish · 1 Lutheran
1Chr 4:39 · Douay-Rheims
“And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
770 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1875
A.D.
Keil & Delitzsch
Lutheran
1861–1875
“And these written by name,.... Before in Ch1 4:34, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; as Dr. Lightfoot (m) thinks, not within the first fourteen years of his reign, when the Syrian army was abroad, and none dost peep out, but in his last fifteen years, when the army was destroyed and gone: and smote their tents; the tents of those who dwelt there for the sake of feeding their flocks, and whose pasturage the Simeonites wanted: and the habitations that were found there; or the Meunaim or Maonites, which the Septuagint Version here calls Mineans, a people sometimes mentioned along with the Philistines, and others: see Jdg 10:11. and destroyed them utterly unto this day: to the writing of this book; they had not then recovered their possessions: and dwelt in their room, because there was pasture there for their flocks; which was the thing they were in search of. (m) Works, vol. 1. p. 111.”
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.