Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore to him Attai.
Maachah, Caleb's concubine,.... Another concubine of his: bare Sheber, and Tirhanah; or of whom Caleb begot those two; for the verb is masculine; so Kimchi.
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
Sheshan married his daughter to a foreign slave, unusual anywhere else, but in Eastern lands this happens regularly. Some object that Moses' law forbids it, but that misses the point: Jarha had become a Jewish proselyte, embracing our faith instead of Egyptian idolatry. No legal bar stood against him then. As a slave with no tribal inheritance to lose, his marriage made him heir to Sheshan's house and adopted him into Judah itself.
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