Discovery Box1 Chronicles 2:48-55
Context2:48 Caleb’s concubine Maacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 2:49 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.
2:50 These were the descendants of Caleb.
The sons 1 of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrath: 2
Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim, 2:51 Salma, the father of Bethlehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-Gader.
2:52 The sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim, were Haroeh, half of the Manahathites, 3 2:53 the clans of Kiriath Jearim – the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. (The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these groups.) 4
2:54 The sons of Salma:
Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth-Joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites, 2:55 and the clans of the scribes 5 who lived in Jabez: the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who descended 6 from Hammath, the father of Beth-Rechab. 7
[2:50] 1 tn Heb “son.” The Hebrew text has the singular, but the following list contains more than one name.
[2:50] 2 tn The Hebrew text reads “Ephrathah” here, but see v. 19, which mentions “Ephrath” as the wife of Hur.
[2:52] 3 tn The Hebrew text has “Menuchites” here, but v. 54 has “Manachathites.”
[2:53] 4 tn Heb “from these went forth the Zorathites and Eshtaolites.”
[2:55] 5 tn Or perhaps “the Sopherim.” The NAB transliterates this term and treats it as a proper name.
[2:55] 7 tn Or (if בֵּית [beth] is translated as “house” rather than considered to be part of the name) “the father of the house [i.e., family] of Rechab.”
