And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
The text about Caleb appears tangled in our version: he is called father of Hur in one place and son of Hur in another. The latter passage has been copied wrong and should read 'Hur the son of Caleb.' Azubah was his wife; Jerioth was a secondary wife, mother of those children named.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:18-55
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
The genealogy here is deeply obscure. The collocation of 'sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron' is very strange; Hebron must mean the city, yet the continuation names Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema as Hebron's sons, and the verb 'begat' plainly denotes human propagation, not lordship of cities. The text resists easy resolution.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:42-45