Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
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.
AI summary
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
The masculine ילד instead of the feminine form suggests the father who begat these sons was present to the writer's mind. That Achsah appears here abruptly matters only because she was Caleb the son of Jephunneh's daughter, famous in the conquest narrative; women occur in genealogies only when they have played important parts in history.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:48-49