And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
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
Sheshan gave his daughter, Ahlai, to Jarha his servant to wife, first granting him freedom; this Ahlai appears again as mother of Attai, whose line extends through the generations, notably producing Zabad and, according to Jewish record, Ishmael the regicide.
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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