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Verse 18

And his wife Jehudijah ,.... Another wife of Ezra; or, according to Kimchi, of Mered; a Jewess, as the word is by some rendered, to distinguish her from another wife, an Egyptian, in the latter part of the verse:

bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah ; who were princes, as Jarchi seems rightly to observe; of several cities of these names in the tribe of Judah, as of Gedor, see Joshua 15:58 , of Socoh, Joshua 15:35 , of Zanoah, Joshua 15:34 , the Targum interprets the names of all these men of Moses, whom Pharaoh's daughter brought up; and so other Jewish writers F1 T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 13. 1. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 146. 3. , into which mistake they were led by what follows:

and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took ; that is, to wife; this Mered was one of the sons of Ezra, 1 Chronicles 4:17 the Targum, and other Jewish writers F2 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 2. & Megillah, fol. 13. 1. , say this was Caleb, called Mered, because he rebelled against the counsel of the spies; but this contradicts their other notion of Jehudijah, or Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom he married, the one who brought up Moses, since Moses was elder than Caleb; but Bithiah, whom Mered married, was not a daughter of Pharaoh king of Egypt, but of an Israelite of this name; her sons are supposed to be those in the latter part of 1 Chronicles 4:17 .

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