The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:46-49
Give the names (the first of which appears as that of a man also, next verse and 1 Chronicles 1:33 ) of two additional concubines of Caleb, and of their descendants. read more
1 Chronicles 2
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:47
Offers us another name, Jahdai, not to be accounted for with any certainty. It is not linked to the context, and nothing is known of the six sons assigned to the person owning it. That Gazez occurs twice in the previous verse is remarkable, and suggestive, possibly, of mistake. The Septuagint omits altogether the clause in which it is found the second time. Houbigant translates, "Porro Haran genuit Jahdai," and so summarily removes the difficulty from his way (Barrington's 'Genealogies,'... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:49
Machbenah is an ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (for Madmannah and Gibea , Joshua 15:31 , Joshua 15:57 ). The last sentence of this verse is treated above. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:50-55
The opening sentence of these verses has also been already discussed. It may be now added (see Keil, 'Commentary,' in loc .) that some would understand the words as though they meant, These were the sons of Caleb , in the descending line of Hur, Ephratah's firstborn . This rendering is got at by altering "the son of Hut" into "the sons of Hur," which seems to have been the reading of the Septuagint manuscripts, and which, at all events, their rendering has. The remainder of 1... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 2:1
The sons of Israel - The order of the names here approximates to an order determined by legitimacy of birth. A single change - the removal of Dan to the place after Benjamin - would give the following result:(1) The six sons of the first wife, Leah.(2) the two sons of the second wife, Rachel.(3) the two sons of the first concubine, Bilhah.(4) the two sons of the second concubine, Zilpah.Dan’s undue prominency may, perhaps, be accounted for by his occupying the seventh place in the “blessing of... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 2:6
The sons of Zerah - Here, for the first time, the writer of Chronicles draws from sources not otherwise known to us, recording facts not mentioned in the earlier Scriptures. Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, sons of Zerah, are only known to us from this passage, since there are no sufficient grounds for identifying them with the “sons of Mahol” (marginal reference). read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 2:7
“Achan” Joshua 7:1 seems to have become “Achar,” in order to assimilate the word more closely to the Hebrew term for “troubler,” which was from the time of Achan’s sin regarded as the true meaning of his name Joshua 7:25-26. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 2:15
David the seventh - Jesse had eight sons, of whom David was the youngest 1 Samuel 16:10-11; 1 Samuel 17:12. Probably one of the sons shown to Samuel at Bethlehem did not grow up. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 2:16
Sisters - i. e. half-sisters. Abigail and Zeruiah were daughters not of Jesse, but of a certain Nahash, whose widow Jesse took to wife 2 Samuel 17:25.From the present passage, and from the fact that Abishai joined David as a comrade in arms before Joab 1 Samuel 26:6, it would seem that, although Joab was pre-eminent among the three 2 Samuel 2:13, 2 Samuel 2:16, Abishai was the eldest. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:42-49
These verses are occupied with the resumption of descendants of Caleb—the Caleb apparently of 1 Chronicles 2:9 and 1 Chronicles 2:18 , though, this being so, the last clause in 1 Chronicles 2:49 , the daughter of Caleb, Achsa , will require accounting for. This statement would lead us to suppose that we were assuredly reading of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; but it cannot be so. The name of Caleb, with the questions gathering round it, will be best considered here. Of the nine times in... read more