1 Chronicles 2:33-55

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Sheshan <08348> [Sheshan.]

When the people of the East have no sons, they frequently marry their daughters to their slaves, even when they have much property to bestow upon them. Hassan had been the slave of Kamel, his predecessor; but Kamel, according to the custom of the country, gave him one of his daughters in marriage, and left him at his death one part of his great riches which he had amassed in the course of a long and prosperous life (Maillet, Lett. xi. p. 118).

2:36

Zabad <02066> [Zabad.]

2:42

Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]

This was not Caleb the son of Jephunneh, but Caleb the son of Hezron, and therefore called the brother of Jerahmeel: See the parallel texts:

[Chelubai.]

firstborn <01060> [his first-born.]

father .......... father <01> [the father. i.e, the founder.]

Or, as the Targum renders, "the prince of the Ziphites;" for it was usual to call both the founder and the prince of a city its father.

Ziph <02128> [Ziph.]

father .......... father ... Hebron <01 02275> [the father of Hebron.]

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Beth-Zur <01049> [Beth-zur.]

Beth-zur was situated in the tribe of Judah, twenty miles south from Jerusalem, towards Hebron, according to Eusebius. It was fortified by Rehoboam, (2 Ch 11:7) and was a fortress of great consequence, principally in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Mac 4:28; 6:7, etc.

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Caleb's <03612> [Caleb's.]

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concubine <06370> [concubine.]

2:49

father ... Madmannah ..... father <01 04089> [the father of Madmannah.]

Madmannah was a city situated in the southern part of Judah, and towards Gaza, according to Eusebius. .# Jos 15:31 Isa 10:31

[Madmenah. Gibea.]

It is probable this was not Gibeah of Benjamin, and the royal residence of Saul, but Gibeah in the tribe of Judah, to which all these other cities belonged.

[Gibeah.]

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Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]

This Caleb was the grandson of the preceding, and brother to Uri, the father of Bezaleel.

Ephrath <0672> [Ephratah.]

[Ephrath. Kirjath-jearim.]

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Salma <08007> [Salma.]

Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]

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Haroeh <07204> [Haroeh. or, Reaiah.]

As Haroeh and Reaiah have nearly the same signification, it is probable they were deemed perfectly interchangeable, and indifferently applied.

half .... Manahathites <02679 02677> [half of the Manahethites. or, half of the Menuchites, or,]

Hatsihammenuchoth.

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Ithrites <03505> [Ithrites.]

Zorathites <06882> [the Zareathites.]

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Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]

Netophathites <05200> [Netophathites.]

<05852> [Ataroth. or, Atarites, or crowns of the house of Joab.]

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scribes <05608> [the scribes.]

Jabez <03258> [Jabez.]

Kenites <07017> [Kenites.]

Beth-Rechab <07394> [Rechab.]