These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half the Manahathites,
Haroeh is Reaiah, the son of Shobal, though a scribe confused the name when he mistook Hazi-Hammenuhoth for plain words instead of a proper name. The phrase means a family descended from Shobal, just as in verse 54 the district name stands for the family dwelling there, not merely a geographical location.
AI summary
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
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