Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 2:55

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.