1 Chronicles 4
1 The posterity of Judah by Caleb, the son of Hur.
5 Of Ashur, the posthumous son Hezron.
9 Of Jabez, and his prayer.
11 The other families of the same stock.
21 The sons of Shelah.
24 The posterity and cities of Simeon.
39 Their conquest of Gedor, and of the Amalekites in mount Seir.
Perez <06557> [A.M. 2283, etc. B.C. 1721, etc. Pharez.]
[Phares, Esrom. Carmi.]
[Chelubai.]
[Caleb.]
Reaiah <07211> [Reaiah.]
[Haroeh. Zorathites.]
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
Hur <02354> [Hur.]
Probably Jabez should be mentioned here; as otherwise he is as a consequent without an antecedent.
respected <03513> [more.]
Jabez ............. Jabez <03258> [Jabez. i.e., Sorrowful. I bare him.]
called <07121> [called.]
God ............................... God <0430> [the God.]
If <0518> [Oh that, etc. Heb. If thou wilt, etc.]
bless <01288> [bless me.]
greatly <07235> [enlarge.]
hand <03027> [thine hand.]
Keep <06213> [that thou.]
Keep .... harm <06213 07451> [keep me. Heb. do me. that it may.]
God ............................... God answered <0935 0430> [God granted.]
Ir Nahash <05904> [Irnahash. or, the city of Nahash.]
Kenaz <07073> [Kenaz.]
Hathath <02867> [Hathath. or, Hathath and Meonathai, who begat, etc.]
Ge <01516> [valley. or, inhabitants of the valley. Charashim. that is, craftsmen.]
Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]
Kenaz <07073> [Kenaz. or, Uknaz.]
Ezrah <05834> [Ezra.]
Ezra seems to be the person before called Asareel in ver. 16.
Mered's ....... Miriam <02029 04813> [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 <0851> [Eshtemoa.]
[Eshtemoh.]
Judahite <03057> [Jehudijah. or, the Jewess. the father <\\See definition 03057\\>.]
Gedor <01446> [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.
Soco <07755> [Socho.]
[Socoh <\\See definition 07755\\>.]
Hodiah's <01940> [Hodiah. or, Jehudijah. mentioned before.]
Keilah <07084> [Keilah.]
Shimon <07889> [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.
Shelah <07956> [Shelah.]
[Shiloni.]
descendants ... Simeon <01121 08095> [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 <05241> [Nemuel.]
[Jemuel. Jarib.]
[Jachin. Zerah.]
[Zohar.]
sons ............ sons ............ sons <01121> [like to. Heb. unto.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [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.
Moladah <04137> [Moladah.]
Probably the same as Malatha, so often mentioned by Eusebius; from whom it appears it was situated about twenty miles from Hebron.
Bilhah <01090> [Bilhah.]
[Balah-Azem. Tolad.]
[Eltolad.]
Bethuel <01328> [Bethuel.]
[Bethul. Ziklag.]
Hazar Susim <02702> [and Hazar-susim.]
[Hazar-susah, Beth-lebaoth, Sharuhen.]
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Ether, or Etham, was situated near Malatha, according to Eusebius.
[Ether, Remmon. Ashan.]
Eusebius say Beth-ashan was sixteen miles west of Jerusalem.
Baal <01168> [Baal.]
[Baalath-beer. their genealogy. or, as they divided themselves by nations among them.]
named <08034 0935> [mentioned by their names. Heb. coming by names.]
<03212> [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 Petr‘a, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
[Geder.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Hamites <02526> [Ham.]
These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor.
listed <03789> [these written.]
<03169> [Hezekiah.]
<04583> [the habitations.]
Or, the Meunnim, or Maonites.
pasture <04829> [pasture.]
hill country ... Seir <08165 02022> [mount Seir.]
rest <07611> [the rest.]
That is, those who escaped in the war which Saul, and afterwards David, made against them.
day <03117> [unto this day.]
