1 Chronicles 4:41
Good News Translation
In the time of King Hezekiah of Judah, the men named above went to Gerar and destroyed the tents and huts of the people who lived there. They drove the people out and settled there permanently because there was plenty of pasture for their sheep.

New Revised Standard Version
These, registered by name, came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

Contemporary English Version
but when Hezekiah was king of Judah, the descendants of Simeon attacked and forced the Hamites and Meunites off the land, then settled there.

New American Bible
They who have just been listed by name set out during the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and also the Meunites who were there. They put them under the ban that is still in force to this day and dwelt in their place because they found pasture there for their flocks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.

these written.

1 Chronicles 4:33-38 And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal. This was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings. . . .

Hezekiah.

2 Kings 18:8-12 He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. . . .

Isaiah 14:28-32 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden: . . .

the habitations.

Judges 10:12 The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?

Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

pasture.

Numbers 32:1-4 And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, . . .

Context
More Descendants of Judah
40And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before. 41And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.42Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons of Jesi:…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 4:33
And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal. This was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings.

1 Chronicles 5:22
And many fell down slain: for it was the battle of the Lord. And they dwelt in their stead till the captivity.

2 Chronicles 20:1
After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against Josaphat.

2 Chronicles 26:7
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 4:40
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