1 Chronicles 4:5-43
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.]
