And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
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
Kirjathjearim is plainly a place, not a person, and Shobal was its prince. Haroeh (also called Reaiah) was one son; the other, 'half of the Manahethites,' names either a man or a region, Jarchi and Kimchi disagree, but either way it designates Shobal's dominion, not mere genealogy.
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