And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
1Ch 2:26-27 Only one son of the second wife is given, Onam, whose posterity follows in 1Ch 2:28-33; for in 1Ch 2:27 the three sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerahmeel, are enumerated.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:26-27
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai,.... Ch1 2:28, Jether and Jonathan: and Jether died without children; the posterity of Jonathan are given the next verse.
Judah kept their genealogies better than any other tribe, a special providence of God, to clear the line of Christ. Hezron was one of the seventy who went down to Egypt with Jacob, and his family multiplied there as the oppressed families did; the Jews say he married three times because he burned to see posterity in the house of Pharez, from whom the Messiah would come.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:18-55