1 Chronicles 2:18

_AND CALEB THE SON OF HEZRON BEGAT CHILDREN OF AZUBAH HIS WIFE, AND OF JERIOTH: HER SONS ARE THESE; JESHER, AND SHOBAB, AND ARDON._ Caleb the son of Hezron. The notices concerning this person appear confused in our version. In 1 Chronicles 2:19 he is said to be the father of Hur, whereas in 1 Chronicles 2:50 he is called "the son of Hur." The words in this latter passage have been transposed in the copying, and should be read thus, 'Hur the son of Caleb.' BEGAT CHILDREN OF AZUBAH HIS WIFE, AND OF JERIOTH. The former was his spouse, while Jerioth seems to have been a secondary wife, and the mother of the children whose names are here given. On the death of his principal wife, he married Ephrath, and by her had Hur....

Verse 1 Chronicles 2:18. _AZUBAH_] "And why was she called Azubah? Because she was barren and despised. But her injury was manifested before the Lord; and she was comforted, and adorned with wisdom; and she span, skilfully, goats' hair for the court of the tabernacle." - _T_....

In the remainder of this chapter the writer obtains scarcely any assistance from the earlier Scriptures, and must have drawn almost entirely from genealogical sources, accessible to him, which have since perished. Azubah was Caleb’s wife; Jerioth his concubine. He had children by both; but those of Azubah are alone recorded....

EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair, and to occasional significant indications of sources drawn upon by the compiler, certainly quite additional to the contents of the existing books of the Old Testament. We know something of what we have to expect when the name of Israel, or Jacob, is announced in the first verse, with his twelve sons—those "patriarchs," some of whom (certainly not as many as eleven, for Reuben was absent, and, with scarcely a doubt, Benjamin), "moved with envy, sold into Egypt Joseph," the twelfth (Acts 7:9). We here enter, in fact, upon the genealogies and tables and enumeratious of collateral lines of "all Israel," to which the whole of the following seven chapters are devoted ...

AND CALEB THE SON OF HEZRON,.... The same that is called Chelubai, 1 Chronicles 2:9 but not the same with Caleb the son of Jephunneh, made mention of in the books of Numbers, Joshua, and Judges: HE BEGAT CHILDREN OF AZUBAH HIS WIFE, AND OF JERIOTH; who were both his wives; or it may be rather, since Azubah is so particularly called his wife, Jerioth might be a concubine: or of Azubah he begat Jerioth; so the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions; though it seems best with Hillerus p to interpret these names of the same person, and render the last clause, "that is, of Jerioth", of her whose name also was Jerioth, Azubah having two names; and the rather, since only the children of one are mentioned, as follows: HER SONS ARE THESE; JESHER, AND SHOBAB, AND ARDON of whom we read nowhere else; the Targum says, Azubah was so called, because she was

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CALEB THE SON OF HEZRON. The ancestor of "Caleb the son of Jephunneh" (Numbers 13:6; Numbers 13:30; Numbers 14:6; Numbers 14:24; Numbers 32:12; Numbers 34:19; Joshua 14:6; Joshua 14:14), who is distinguished from this Caleb in...

_begat_children _of Azubah_his _wife and of Jerioth_ So R.V., but the Heb. seems to be corrupt. Probably we should read, TOOK AZUBAH THE WIFE OF JERIOTH. LXX. gives no help....

BEGAT CHILDREN OF AZUBAH HIS WIFE, AND OF JERIOTH— _Begat children of Azubah his wife; and her sons were these, Jerioth, Jesher,_ &c. Houbigant....