The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
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
And the son of Shammai was Maon,.... Who gave name to a city in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:55 see Sa1 23:24. and Maon was the father of Bethzur; prince of a very strong fortified city of this name in the same tribe, Jos 15:58, unless this was a son of Maon's, from whom the city had its name.
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