Wesley Corpus

For they neither had need nor leisure as yet to do more, the old cities not being burnt and ruined, as divers in Canaan were. Their names changed - Either because conquerers of places used to do so: or because the names of other Gods (which Nebo and Baal - meon unquestionably were) were not to be mentioned, Exo 23:13. Machir - Not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since dead, but the family or posterity of Machir. Nobah - Who, though not else where named, was doubtless an eminent person of the tribe of Manasseh. 'Tis observable, that these tribes, as they were placed before the other tribes, so they were displaced before them. They were carried captive by the king of Assyria, some years before the other tribes. Such a proportion does providence frequently observe, in balancing prosperity and adversity.