Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
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
These families of scribes dwelling at Jabez were learned men, scholars of their master, called by their forebears' names and devoted to sacred knowledge. The Suchathites are the Kenites, sprung from Jethro, who dwelt in tents rather than cities because they scorned worldly things to attend freely to learning.
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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