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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 1 Chronicles 4

Chapter 4

The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

A. M. 2283, etc. B.C. 1721, etc. Pharez

2:5 Genesis 38:29 46:12 Numbers 26:20,21 Ruth 4:18 Matthew 1:3 Luke 3:33

Phares, Esrom

Carmi.

2:9

Chelubai

2:18

Caleb

Verse 2

And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

Reaiah

2:52

Haroeh

Zorathites.

2:53,54 Joshua 15:33 Judges 13:25

And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:

Etam

Judges 15:11 2 Chronicles 11:6

And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.

Gedor

18,39 Joshua 15:36

Hur

2:19,50

And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

2:24

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

more

Genesis 34:19 Isaiah 43:4 Acts 17:11

Jabez

i.e., Sorrowful. I bare him.

7:23 Genesis 3:16 35:18 1 Samuel 4:21

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

called

16:8 Genesis 12:8 Job 12:4 Psalms 55:16 99:6 116:2-4 Jeremiah 33:3 Romans 10:12-14 1 Corinthians 1:2

the God

Genesis 32:28 33:20 1 Samuel 1:17 Isaiah 41:17

Oh that, etc

Heb. If thou wilt, etc.

Luke 19:42

bless me

Genesis 12:2 32:26 Psalms 72:17 Acts 3:26 Ephesians 1:3

enlarge

Joshua 17:14-18 Judges 1:27-36 Proverbs 10:22

thine hand

Psalms 119:173 Isaiah 41:10 John 10:28

that thou

Genesis 48:16 Proverbs 30:8 Matthew 6:13 Romans 12:9 16:19 2 Timothy 4:18

keep me

Heb. do me. that it may.

Psalms 32:3,4 51:8,12 Matthew 26:75 John 21:17 2 Corinthians 2:1-7 Ephesians 4:30 Revelation 3:19

God granted

1 Kings 3:7-13 Job 22:27,28 Psalms 21:4 65:2 66:19,20 116:1,2 Matthew 7:7-11 Ephesians 3:20

And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.

Irnahash

or, the city of Nahash.

And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

Kenaz

Joshua 15:17 Judges 1:13 3:9-11

Hathath

or, Hathath and Meonathai, who begat, etc.

And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

valley

or, inhabitants of the valley. Charashim. that is, craftsmen.

2 Kings 24:14 Nehemiah 11:35

And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

Caleb

Numbers 13:6,30 14:6-10,24,30 Joshua 14:6-14 15:13-20 Judges 1:12-14

Kenaz

or, Uknaz.

And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

Ezra

Ezra seems to be the person before called Asareel in ver. 16.

and she bare Miriam

It is probable that the latter part of ver. 18 should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks is its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father's being mentioned.

Eshtemoa

19 6:57 Joshua 15:50

Eshtemoh

21:24 1 Samuel 30:28

And his wife Jehudijah Socoh (See definition 07755|) bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

Jehudijah

or, the Jewess. the father

4,39 2:42 Joshua 15:58

Gedor

Gedor was a city in the tribe of Judah; and probably the same which Eusebius calls [Kedous] and Jerome Gedrus, ten miles from Diospolis, or Lydda, towards Eleutheropolis.

Socho

Joshua 15:34,35,48

And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

Hodiah

or, Jehudijah. mentioned before.

Keilah

Joshua 15:44 1 Samuel 23:1-13

And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.

Shimon

Shimon is supposed to have been another son of Mered, by Jehudijah. As this latter name signifies a Jewess, it rather favours the opinion that Bithiah was not a Jewess, but an Egyptian.

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

Shelah

2:3 9:5 Genesis 38:5 46:12 Numbers 26:20 Nehemiah 11:5

Shiloni

Verse 23

These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

14 Psalms 81:6

The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:

The sons of Simeon

This genealogy differs in many particulars from those in the parallel places; probably being occasioned by the same person's having several names.

Nemuel

Genesis 46:10 Exodus 6:15

Jemuel

Jarib.

Numbers 26:12-14

Jachin

Zerah.

Genesis 46:10

Zohar

Verse 27

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

like to

Heb. unto.

Numbers 2:4,13 26:14,22

And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

Beer-sheba

Beer-sheba was situated twenty miles south of Hebron, according to Eusebius and Jerome, in whose time it was occupied by a Roman garrison.

Joshua 15:28,29 19:2,3,9

Moladah

Probably the same as Malatha, so often mentioned by Eusebius; from whom it appears it was situated about twenty miles from Hebron.

And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

Bilhah

Joshua 19:3

Balah-Azem

Tolad.

Joshua 19:4

Eltolad

Verse 30

And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

Bethuel

Joshua 19:4

Bethul

Ziklag.

12:1 Joshua 15:31 19:5 1 Samuel 27:6 30:1 Nehemiah 11:28

And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

and Hazar-susim

Joshua 19:5,6

Hazar-susah, Beth-lebaoth, Sharuhen

Verse 32

And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

Etam

Ether, or Etham, was situated near Malatha, according to Eusebius.

Joshua 19:7

Ether, Remmon

Ashan. Eusebius say Beth-ashan was sixteen miles west of Jerusalem.

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

Baal

Joshua 19:8

Baalath-beer

their genealogy. or, as they divided themselves by nations among them.

These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

mentioned by their names

Heb. coming by names.

5:24 Genesis 6:4

And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

they went

This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia PetrÊa, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.

Gedor

4,18 Joshua 12:13

Geder

Joshua 15:58

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

the land

Judges 18:7-10

Ham

These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor.

Genesis 9:22-29 10:6 Psalms 78:51 105:23

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

these written

Hezekiah

2 Kings 18:8-12 Isaiah 14:28-32

the habitations

Or, the Meunnim, or Maonites.

Judges 10:12 Jeremiah 49:20 Acts 17:26

pasture

Numbers 32:1-4

And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

mount Seir

Genesis 36:8,9 Deuteronomy 1:2

And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

the rest

That is, those who escaped in the war which Saul, and afterwards David, made against them.

Exodus 17:14-16 Deuteronomy 25:17-19 1 Samuel 15:7,8 30:17 2 Samuel 8:12

unto this day

Deuteronomy 34:6 Judges 1:26 2 Chronicles 5:9 Jeremiah 44:6 Matthew 27:8 28:15