1 Chronicles 4:1-26
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.]