1 Chronicles 4:18

_AND HIS WIFE JEHUDIJAH BARE JERED THE FATHER OF GEDOR, AND HEBER THE FATHER OF SOCHO, AND JEKUTHIEL THE FATHER OF ZANOAH. AND THESE ARE THE SONS OF BITHIAH THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH, WHICH MERED TOOK._ Jehudijah, х_ HA-YªHUDIYAAH_ (H3057); Septuagint, Idouia] - the Jewess, to distinguish her from his other wife, who was an Egyptian. This passage records a very interesting fact, the marriage of an Egyptian princess to a descendant of Caleb. The marriage must have taken place in the wilderness. The barriers of a different national language and national religion kept the Hebrews separate from the Egyptians; but they did not wholly prevent intimacies, and even occasional intermarriages between private individuals of the two nations. Before such unions, however, could be sanctioned, the Egyptian party must have renounced idolatry, and this daughter of Pharaoh, as appears from her name, had be...

Verse 1 Chronicles 4:18. _AND HIS WIFE JEHUDIJAH_] The Targum considers the names in this verse as _epithets_ of Moses: "And his wife Jehuditha educated Moses after she had drawn him out of the water: and she called his name _Jered_, because he caused the manna to _descend_ upon Israel; and Prince _Gedor_, because he restored the _desolations_ of Israel; _Heber_ also, because he _joined_ Israel to their heavenly Father; and Prince _Socho_, because he _overshadowed_ Israel with his righteousness, and _Jekuthiel_, because the Israelites _waited_ on the God of heaven in his time, forty years in the desert; and prince _Zanoah_, because God, on his account, had _passed_ by the sins of Israel. These names _Bithiah_, the daughter of Pharaoh, called him by the spirit of prophecy, for she became a proselyte; and Mere...

HIS WIFE - i. e. Mered’s. Mered, it would seem, had two wives, Bithiah, an Egyptian woman, and a Jewish wife (see the margin), whose name is not given. If Mered was a chief of rank, Bithlah may have been married to him with the consent of her father, for the Egyptian kings often gave their daughters in marriage to foreigners. Or she may have elected to forsake her countrymen and cleave to a Jewish husband, becoming a convert to his religion. Her name, Bithiah, “daughter of Yahweh,” is like that of a convert....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 After the large space given to the "sons of David," of the tribe of Judah, in the previous chapter, this chapter returns for twenty-three verses to group together a few additional ramifications of the same tribe, whose registers were for some reasons, perhaps not very evident, preserved and known. The first verses follow in the direction already indicated in 1 Chronicles 2:1; near the end of which we were left with Shobal and Haroeh, probably the same with Reaiah (the same name as Reaia, 1 Chronicles 5:5, though not the same person)....

AND HIS WIFE JEHUDIJAH,.... Another wife of Ezra; or, according to Kimchi, of Mered; a Jewess, as the word is by some rendered, to distinguish her from another wife, an Egyptian, in the latter part of the verse: BARE JERED THE FATHER OF GEDOR, AND HEBER THE FATHER OF SOCHO, AND JEKUTHIEL THE FATHER OF ZANOAH; who were princes, as Jarchi seems rightly to observe; of several cities of these names in the tribe of Judah, as of Gedor, see Joshua 15:58, of Socoh, Joshua 15:35, of Zanoah, Joshua 15:34, the Targum interprets the names of all these men of Moses, whom Pharaoh's daughter brought up; and so other Jewish writers a, into which mistake they were led by what follows: and these are the sons

CHAPTER 4:1-23 ADDITIONAL GENEALOGIES OF JUDAH _ 1. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:1)_ 2. Jabez more honorable (1 Chronicles 4:9) 3. Further descendants of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:11) 4. Descendants of Shelah (1 Chronicles 4:21) Hur and Shobal, mentioned in the first verse, were the sons of Caleb the son of Hezron. The families of the Zorathites sprang from Reaiah, the son of Shobal. Jabez is especially mentioned. Jabez means “He causes pain.” “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

_his wife_ the wife of Mered, if the transposition mentioned in the last note be accepted. _his wife Jehudijah_ R.V. HIS WIFE THE JEWESS (so called in contrast to his Egyptian wife). _Gedor_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 4:4, where a different person is perhaps by a different tradition called father of Gedor. _Gedor_is to be identified with the ruins of Jedur on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron (_Bädeker_, p. 135) _Socho_ R.V. SOCO. _Socho … Zanoah_ The two places are mentioned in the reverse order in Joshua 15:34-35 as situated in the lowland (Shephelah). Zâbû-a still exists (_Bädeker_, p. 161). _these_are _the sons of Bithiah_ See note on...

THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH— _Pharaoh,_ in this place, is not the name of an Egyptian king, but of some Israelite called by that name....

LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55, 1 Chronicles 4:23) INTRODUCTION The sons of Judah were mothered by Canaanite women, however, Perez was destined to be very important in God's plans. Several familiar names appear in Chapter s 4-6. The families of the Levites were to have their inheritance in the land of Palestine. TEXT 1 Chronicles 2:1. These ar