1Ch 4 | TSK | STEP | The posterity of Judah by Caleb, the son of Hur. Of Ashur, the posthumous son Hezron. Of Jabez, and his prayer. The other families of the same stock. The sons of Shelah. The posterity and cities of Simeon. Their conquest of Gedor, and of the Amalekites in mount Seir. A.M. 2283, etc. B.C. 1721, etc. Pharez. Phares, Esrom. Carmi. Chelubai. Caleb.

and she bare Miriam.It is probable that the latter part of ver. 18 should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks is its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father's being mentioned.

Eshtemoa.

19; 6:57; Jos 15:50

Eshtemoh.

21:24; 1Sa 30:28

Jehudijah. or, the Jewess. the father .

4,39; 2:42; Jos 15:58

Gedor.Gedor was a city in the tribe of Judah; and probably the same which Eusebius calls [Kedous,] and Jerome Gedrus, ten miles from Diospolis, or Lydda, towards Eleutheropolis.

Socho.

Jos 15:34,35,48

Socoh .

Hodiah. or, Jehudijah. mentioned before.

Keilah.

Jos 15:44; 1Sa 23:1-13

Shimon.Shimon is supposed to have been another son of Mered, by Jehudijah. As this latter name signifies a Jewess, it rather favours the opinion that Bithiah was not a Jewess, but an Egyptian.

Shelah.

2:3; 9:5; Ge 38:5; 46:12; Nu 26:20; Ne 11:5

Shiloni.

14; Ps 81:6

The sons of Simeon.This genealogy differs in many particulars from those in the parallel places; probably being occasioned by the same person's having several names.

Nemuel.

Ge 46:10; Ex 6:15

Jemuel. Jarib.

Nu 26:12-14

Jachin. Zerah.

Ge 46:10

Zohar.

like to. Heb. unto.

Nu 2:4,13; 26:14,22

Beer-sheba.Beer-sheba was situated twenty miles south of Hebron, according to Eusebius and Jerome, in whose time it was occupied by a Roman garrison.

Jos 15:28,29; 19:2,3,9

Moladah.Probably the same as Malatha, so often mentioned by Eusebius; from whom it appears it was situated about twenty miles from Hebron.

Bilhah.

Jos 19:3

Balah-Azem. Tolad.

Jos 19:4

Eltolad.

Bethuel.

Jos 19:4

Bethul. Ziklag.

12:1; Jos 15:31; 19:5; 1Sa 27:6; 30:1; Ne 11:28

and Hazar-susim.

Jos 19:5,6

Hazar-susah, Beth-lebaoth, Sharuhen.

Etam.Ether, or Etham, was situated near Malatha, according to Eusebius.

Jos 19:7

Ether, Remmon. Ashan.Eusebius say Beth-ashan was sixteen miles west of Jerusalem.

Baal.

Jos 19:8

Baalath-beer. their genealogy. or, as they dividedthemselves by nations among them.

mentioned by their names. Heb. coming by names.

5:24; Ge 6:4

they went.This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petræa, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.

Gedor.

4,18; Jos 12:13

Geder.

Jos 15:58

the land.

Jud 18:7-10

Ham.These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor.

Ge 9:22-29; 10:6; Ps 78:51; 105:23

these written.

33-38

Hezekiah.

2Ki 18:8-12; Isa 14:28-32