Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 2

3 The sons of Judah ; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him.

Whom he puts first, because the best part of the Right of the First-born, to wit, the Dominion, was conferred upon him, Gen. 49. 8. and because the Messiah was to come out of his Loyns.

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6 And the Sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara : five of them in all.

If these be the same who are mentioned as the Sons of Machol, 1 King [illegible: 1+ letters]4. 31. Either the same Man had two Names, Zerah and Machol, as was usual among the Hebrews: Or, one of these was their immediate Father, and the other their Grandfather,

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7 And the sons of Carmi : Achar , the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.

Who is here mentioned, because he was the Son of Zimri, who is also called Zabdi, Ios. 7. 1.

Called Achan, Ios. 7. 1. and here Achar, with a little variation for greater significancy: For Achar signifies a Troubler.

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13 And Jesse begat his first-born Eliab , and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

Called also Elihu, 1 Chron. 27. 18. unless that was another person, and the word Brother be taken more largely for a Kinsman, as it is frequently used.

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15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh :

For though he had eight Sons, 1 Sam. 16. 10. one of them either died presently after that time, or is neglected for some reason now unknown, as others are▪ See the Notes on Mat. 1. 8, 9.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite .

By Birth or Habitation, but by Profession an Israelite, 2 Sam. 17. 25. where see my Notes.

18 And Caleb the son of Hezron † begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these, Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

Not that Caleb, Numb. 13. 6. for he was the Son of Iephun [illegible: 1+ letters], of whom he speaks Ch. 4. 15. but another Caleb.

i. e. The Sons either 1. of Ierioth, she being last mentioned: Or, rather 2. of Azubah, who is by way of distinction called his Wife, when [illegible: 1 word] probably was onely his Concubine, and, as it may seem, [illegible: 1 word] ▪ And therefore upon Azubah's death he married another Wife, v. 19. And those other Sons of this Caleb mentioned below v. [illegible: 1+ letters]2. are his Sons by some other: Wife distinct from all these.

Marginal references: Heb. g[illegible: 1+ letters]t w[illegible: 1+ letters]th [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word].

21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead , whom he † married when he was threescore years old, and she bare him Segub.

i. e. Lay with her, as that Phrase is commonly used, as Gen. 4. [illegible: 1 word] & 6. 4.

Of a Man so called. Or, if Gilead be the Name of that known Country, Father is put for Head or Governour, as it is used, 1 Sam. 24. 11. 2 King. 5. 13. & 16. 7. Isa. 22. 21. Or, for Protectour, or Curatour, as Father is used Iob 29. 16. Ier. 2. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1+ letters]. 3. This Man being a Man of noted Valour, and the Great Champion in those Parts.

Heb. And he took her, to wit, to Wife. Or, After he had taken her. For so the Particle vau is used, as hath been formerly noted.

Heb. And he was, to wit, when he went in unto her, Or, when he married her.

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22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead .

Which he had, though he was of the Tribe of Iudah, as [illegible: 1 word] we see, because he married a Daughter of Manasseh, Num. [illegible: 1+ letters]6. 29. whence he is called a Son of Manasseh, Numb. 32. 41. Deut. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ 14. And because, being a Man of great Courage, he joyned himself [illegible: 1 word] that half Tribe in subduing Gilead, wherein he acted so Val[illegible: 1+ letters]ntly and Successfully, that he had 23 Cities or great Towns given to him to possess or dispose off: or, rather to Rule over them, [illegible: 1 word] have some Advantage from them; As a King is said to have his Kingdom, although he hath not the propriety of all the Lands and Houses in it.

23 And he took Geshur and Aram , with the towns of Jair , from them , with Kenath , and the towns thereof, even threescore cities: all these belonged to the sons of Machir , the father of Gilead.

Or, For he had taken. So this is the Reason why he had so great a Territory and Jurisdiction given to him.

Two Cities or great Towns so called.

i. e. With those 23. Cities which he is [illegible: 1 word] to have, v. 22.

i. e. From the former Inhabitants, which is easily understood.

Which was taken by Nobah, one of Iairs Commanders, sent by him to take it, as may be gathered from [illegible: 1 word]. 32. 41, 42.

Partly to his own Sons, and partly to his Son-in-law Iair, who by reason of that dear Affection which was [illegible: 1 word] them, and his forsaking his own Tribe and Kindred to [illegible: 1 word] for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own Son.

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24 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah , then Abiah Hezrons wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa .

A place then so called by a Conjunction of the Names of the Man and his Wife; afterwards supposed to be called Bethlehem-Ephratah. Others translate the words thus, When Caleb took Ephratah. So it is an Ellepsis of the Verb which is here to be understood out of v. 19. where it is expressed.

After the Fathers death.

A known place, 2 Sam. 14. 2, 4. Ier. 6. 1. Amos 1. 1. Whose Father he is called, because he was either the Progenitour of the People inhabiting there: Or, their Prince and Ruler: Or, the Builder of the City.

25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were, Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah .

Or, of (the prefix, mem being oft understood) Ahijah, his Wife so called, as may seem probable from the next Verse, where he mentions another Wife.

31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.

An Expression oft used both afterwards in this verse and elsewhere, and in profane Authors too, where there is but one Son. It is an Enallage of the Number, which is frequent in the Hebrew.

Marginal references: See ver. 34, 35.

34 Now Sheshan had no sons , but daughters: and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

To wit, living when he died, his Son Ahlai, v. 31. dying before him: unless Ahlai was the Name of a Daughter.

42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his first-born, which was the father of Ziph : and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron .

To wit, of that Caleb mentioned v. 18. as appears by comparing that Verse with v 25. And these are his Sons by another and his third Wife. See on v. 18.

The Name either of a Man: or of a Place, of which see Ios. 15. 24, 55. And then Father is to be understood here as v. 23, & 24.

Not the Place so called, but a Man, as is evident because his Sons here follow.

45 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur .

A Place in Iudah, Ios. 15. 58. See on v. 23.

47 And the sons of Jahdai ; Regem, and Jotham; and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

The Son of Gazez last mentioned: which is implied because he follows next after him in the Genealogy. Or, the Sons of Moza: whose Name might be changed into Iahdai for some Reason now unknown.

49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah , Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

This, and divers other following Names are the Names of Places in Iudah, and Father is meant as v. 23, 24.

Marginal references: Josh. [illegible: 1+ letters]5. [illegible: 1 word].

51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem , Hareph the father of Beth-gader .

To wit, in part: For Boaz descended from another Salmon, who was the Son of Naasson, v. 11.

Called also Penuel the father of Gedor, ch. 4. 4.

52 And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim, had sons; Haroeh , and half of the Manahethites.

Which may signifie an Overseer, a Prophet, or Teacher, or Ruler; but here is a proper Name, as appears from ch. 4. 2. where he is called Rea[illegible: 1+ letters]ah with no great variation in the Hebrew.

Marginal references: Or, Reajah, chap. 4. 2.; Or, half of the Menuchites, Or, [illegible: 1 word].

53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim ; the Ithrite, and the Puhite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite: of them came the Zareathite, and the Eshtaulite .

Or, In Kirjath-jearim, all which descended from Shobal, v. 51.

i. e. Of the Family of the Mishraite, last mentioned.

The Inhabitants of two places called Zoreah and Eshtaol, Ios. 15. 33.

54 The sons of Salma ; Bethlehem , and the Netophathite, Ataroth , the house of Joab , and half of the Manahethites , the Zorites .

Of that Salma mentioned v. 51.

i. e. The Inhabitants of Bethlehem.

The Name of a Person, or People.

The Progenitors of Ioab's Family.

The other half being mentioned v. 52

For, to wit, the Zorite.

Marginal references: Or, Atarit[illegible: 1+ letters]s: or, crowns of the House of Ioab.

55 And the families of the Scribes which dwelt at Jabez ; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath the father of the house of Rechab.

Either Civil, who were Publick Notaries who wrote and signed Legal Instruments: Or Ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites, or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the Tribe of Iudah, but because they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by Marriages, and so in a manner Incorporated with them.

Or, rather dwelt; Heb. Were Dwellers. For the other Translation, which dwelt, may seem to ins[illegible: 1+ letters]uate that these were Descendants of Iudah, which they were not; but this Translation onely signifies their Cohabitation with them, for which cause they are here named with them.

A Place in Iudah, so named probably from that Famous Iabez of that Tribe, ch. 4. 9.

Who dwelt in Iudah, Iudg. 1. 11. Thus they are distinguished from the other Branch of the Kenites, who dwelt in the Tribe of Manasseh, Iudg. 4. 11.

Marginal references: Judg. 1. 16.; Jer. 35. 2.