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¥. 47. And the fons of Jabdai, &c.)] Whois not mentioned by this name before; perhaps the.

fame with Moza, who might have two names; though, according to Hillerus‘*, he was the fon of Moza; fome take it to be the name of another of

Caleb’s concubines, by whom he had the fix fol-| lowing fons: Regem, and Fotham, and Gefban, Péelet, and Ephab, and Shaaphs one of thefe, perhaps, gave namie to Beth- Judah, Foo. xv. 27. | ¥. 48. Maachah Caleb’s concubine, &c.| Another concubine of his: dare Sheber, and Tirhanab, or of whom Caleb begot thofe two; for the ver mafculine; fo Kimchi.. é ¥. 49. She bare alfo Shaaph the father of Madmannab, &c.| Frince of a place fo called, in the tribe of Fudah, Fofh. xv. 31. Sheva the father of Machbenab, and the father of Gibeah; prince of two cities of thofe names in the fame tribe; of the latter fee Fob. xv. 57. and the daughter of Caléb Was Achfa, Caleb, the fon of Fephunneb, had a daughter of this name, but neither he nor fhe are here meant, Folb. xv. 16, 17. but by whom Caleb, the fon of Hezron, had this daughter is not faid; perhaps by Maachab his concubine laft-mentioned.; ¥. 50. Thefe were the fons of Caleb the fon of Hur, the firft-born of Ephratab, &c.] This is another Caleb, the grandion of Caleb the fon of Hezron, called after his name; he was the fon of Hur, the firft-born of his wife Ephratab, y. 19. Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim, of the inhabitants of that ‘place 5 they fprung from him; or, as the Targum, he was prince of Kirjath-jearim, a city in the tribe of Fudah, Fofh.*xv. 60. ¥. 51. Salma the father of Beth-lebem, &c.] Or prince of Beth-lebem, as the Targum; not the fame as in ¥. 11. he was the fon of Nahbjban, this of the younger Caleb: Hareph, the father of Beth-gader; prince of a place of that name called Gador, ch. iv. 4. and where this man’s name is Penuel, Gader was inthe tribe of Fudah, Fofb. xv. «8. ¥. 52. And Shobal, the father of Kirjath-jearim, had fons, &c.}] Which fhows that Kirjath-jearim is not the name of a man, or of any of Shobal’s fons, who are next mentioned, but of a place of which he was prince: the firft. is Haroeh, who is called Reagjab, ch. iv. 2. aword of the fame fignification: and half of the Manabethites; which Kimchi takes to be the proper name of a man called Chatzi-hamanabeth, another fon of Shodal’s; but Jarchi interprets it of the name of a place or province called Manabeth, ch. viii. 6. over half of ~which Harceb was governor. ¥. 53. And the families of Kirjath-jearim, &c.] That dwelt there, of which Shobal was prince, and who fprung from him, are as follow: the Ithrite, and Pelet elet in the tribe of and the Pubite, and the Shumatbite, and the Mi-~ foraite; who had their names from Fether, Putha Shumath, and Mifbra, defcendants of Shobai:

divas chapter gives an account of the fons of

David, born to him both in Hebron and in Feru- Salem, ¥. t—g. and of his fucceffors in the kingdom to the Babylonifh captivity, F 10—16. and of his family to the coming of the Meffiah, y. 17—24.

¥. 1, 2, 3, 4. Now thefe were the fons of David, &c.] The fix following born in Heiron, who are reckoned in the fame order as in 2 Sam. iii. 2—s. only here the fecond fon is called Daniel, who there ~ poes by the name of Chileab; he had two names, the reafon of which fee there; and here David's wife, Eglah, is faid in the Targum to be Michal — Saul’s daughter, fee the note on 2 Sam. iii G. to Vor. IIR. N° 4. 3.

~. them came the Zareathite, and the Efbtanlite; that is, from the Myhraites fprung the inhabitants of Zareath and Efptaul, places in the tribe of Fudab, Fofo, ¥V. 33.0 A Bart sys Ye gan Lhe fons of Salma, &c.] Another (A of he younger Caled, \¥, 50, 5%, whofe fons were Beth-lehem, the inhabitants of the place, at leaft many of theth, of which he was prince, Wi 51. aud the Netopbatbite; the inhabitants of Netophab, a place in the tribe of Fudeb, mentioned along fprung from Salma: staroth, the houfe of Joab Mar oft feems to be the name of a place in the ttibe of Judah, where the family of oad lived, the inhabitants of which were the defcendants of Selma: and balf of the Manabhethites; the other half of the inhabitants of Manaheth, feey.52. thé Zorites part alfo of them, called Zareathites, y. 5h a

¥.55. And the families of the ferites which dwelt at Fabez, &c.] A city in Yudab, the founder of which perhaps was Fabez, mentioned in ch. iv. 9: in which learnéd men dwelt: the Tirathites, thé Shimeathites, and Suchathites; who fprung from men whofe nathes were Tire, Shimea, and Sucha; and if they were not the polterity of Salma, yet» dwelt among his, and fo are reckoned with them 5 perhaps the latter might have their name from dwelling in tents; the former claufe may be rendered, that dwelt with Jabez, who was thei rmaf= ter, and they his {cholars; in the Vulgate Latin verfion the words are rendered as appellatives, inging and refounding, and dwelling in tents: Conrad Pellican, on the place, goes a middle way; and interprets thefe families as dwelling with Jabez their mafter, and they his fcholars, and that they were called -by their progenitors Tirathites, becaufe learned and ingenious, and precentors of the divine oracles; Shiméathites, becaufe they diligently hearkened to the facred fongs, and the doétrines of the law of God; and Swcbathites, becaule they dwelt not in cities, but in tents, defpifers of all worldly things, that they might frecly' attend to learn: ¢hefe are the Kenites; that is, the Suchathites are the Kenites, who, it is well known, dwelt ° in tents, and not in cities; though archi takes thefe Kenites to be the inhabitants of Cain, a city»- in the tribe of Fudab, Fofb. xv. 57. but they, feem rather to be the Kenifes that {prung from Fethro, here made mention of, becaufe fome of them dwelé in the tribe of ‘fudab, and among the pofterity of Salma, fee Fudg.i. 16. that came of Hemath, thé father of the houfe of Rechab; the prince of that family, and who from Rechab were called Rechabites, Ji. BERV 2:

which is added an, account of his reign both in Hebron and Ferufalem, agreeable to 2 Sam. v. &.

¥. 5, 6, 7, 8. And thefe were born unto bim in Jerufalem, &c.} Whofe names follow, in all g; there are but 7 mentioned in 2 Sam. v. 14, 15, 16.

ithe reafon of which fee in the notes there; it may be oblerved’ that Bath/beba is here called Beth bua, and her father Ammiel, whofe name is Eliain in 2 Sam. Xi..3. names of much the fame fignification. ¥. 9. Thefe were all the fons of David, &c.} By his wives: defide the Jons of the concudines; who are not reckoned, and how many they were is not known; he had ten concubines at Jeaft, 2 Sam. xv. 10. and xx, iii. 4nd Tamer their fier; not the ce # fitter

:,. r + ot. oe ult eh dale te Pa fifter of the fons of the concubines, but of his other) Zofama, and Nedabiab,. i fays, nid ea ay of aelo. f\the fons of Sl, be k fons, and only of Abjalom by the mother’s fide, °

~ ¥) 10—14. Aad Solomon's fon was R &c.] From hence to the end of the 14t verte,

‘David's {ucceffors aré reckoned, according to the jamd Shimei, &e.) Here ari difficy order of their reign, unto Fofab and his fons: So- élfewhere Zerubbabel is faid to be the fon o y. 15. And the fons of Fofiah were, the Yohanan, &c.] -Of whom we no where elfesread; firfi-born difficulty may be removed, by obferving th daiab was a fon of Salathiel, as Kimchi this he probably died before his father Fofiab: the Jeep ebtiakim; whofe name was Eliakim, changed for the former by’ the king of Egypt, when he depofed his younger brother, and fet him on the throne, 2 Kings xxiii. 24.. the third Zedekiab, whofe name‘ was Mattaniah, but changed by the king of Babylon, when he placed him on the throne in the room of his brother’s fon, 2 Kings xxiv. 17. the fourth Shallum; the fame with Fehoabaz, who was firlt made king in the room of his father; but reigning

¥.16. And the fons of Feboiakim, Feconiah his fon, Zedekiah his fon.| This is not the Zedekiab mentioned in the preceding verfe; for he was not the fon but the uncle of Feconiah, unlefs he fhould be called his fon, becaufe he fucceeded him in the kingdom; but he feems to be another of that hame no where elfe mentioned, and not the fon of Feconiah in any fenfe; he is not reckoned among them in the following verfes, but of Feboiakim.

y. 17. And the fons of Feconiab, &c.| For though he was pronounced childlefs, Yer. xxii. 30. that refpects not his having no children in any fenfe, but none to fucceed him in the kingdom: Afr; which fignifies bound, or a prifoner, becaufe, as Kimchi thinks, he was born in a prifon, his father then being a captive in Babylon, but rather it refers to Feconiah himielf, and is an appellation of him, and to be rendered, the fous of Feconiah the captive; which agrees beft with the Hebrew accents: Salathiel his fon; the fame that is called Shealtiel, Hagg. i. 1. who was both the proper fon of Feco-

_niab, and who fucceeded him, as fome think, in the honour and dignity the king of Babylon raifed him to..

¥. 18. Malchiram alfo, &c.]. That is, was a fon of Feconiah as well as Salathiel, and fo the refi that follow: and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Fecamiah, ie this chapter is a farther account of the tribe of Fudab, and of fome principal families in it, y. 1—23. and of the tribe of Simeon, their famifies, cities and villages, ¥. 24—-38. and of the en- Jargement of their borders, and conqueft of the Amalekites, ¥. 39—43.

¥.1- The fons of Judah, Pharez, &c.] The pofterity of Judah in the line of Pharez, for he only is mentioned: Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal, Hezron was the fon of Pharez, and Carmi is fuppofed to be Chelubai, or Caleb the fon of Hezron, and Hur the fon of Caleb; and Shobal was the fon of the fecond Ca/eb, the fon of Hur; fee the fons of Feconiah, boam; \caufe er think they w d brethren Sale jel, “be- * hat follows. oe _¥. 19. And the fons of Pedaiah were, Zei Here arifes a difficul

Zerubbabel being his grandfon, may. be call fon, as grandfons are fometimes called fons. it feripture; or rather, Salatbiel, having no children, adopted Zerubbadel, his brother’s fon, and made him fucceffor in the government;, fo that he was. the fon of Pedaiah by birth, and of Salathiel by” doption; or elfe Salathiel dying without children, his brother Pedaiab, according to the law, marri his widow, and by her had Zerubbabel, who w the proper fon of Pedaiah, and the legal fon~ Salathiel; and the fons of Zerubbabel; Mefoallam who is called Abiud, Matt. i. £3. another his, with their father, is mentioned in this verfe,-. and five more inthe next. From hence to the end of. the chapter, the genealogy is carried on from the captivity of Babylon, out of which Zerubbabel came, to the coming of Chrift; and if Hera was the writer of this. book, as is generally thought, who was cotemporary with Zerubbabel, this account muft be written by another hand: and it may be obferved, that it is carried on in the fame number of generations as in Matthew; and here it ftands thus: Zerubbabel, Hananiah, Fefaiab, Rephaiab, Arnan, Obadiah, Shecaniah, Shemaiah, MNeariab, Elicenai, Anani; in Matthew’ thus, Zerubbabel Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar,' Matthan, Facob, Fofeph; the difference in names may be accounted for by their having two names; and,it is remarkable that the Targum makes Anani to be the king Mefiah, who was to be revealed; which, though it makes one generation lef to his time, yet plainly fhews that the Fews expected the Meffiah to come at the end of this genealogy, and about the time Ye/us the true Mefliah did. Asani is reckoned by other Jews.a name of the Meffiah, who. is faid’ to come in the clouds of heaven, which Avani fignifies, Dan vii.

¥.2. And Reaiah the fon of Shobal begat Fabath, &c.] Reaiah is the fame with Haroeb, ch. ii. 5%. the namesyare of the fame fignification: wamdyfghath begat Abumai, and Lahad, thefe are the families of the Zorathite 3 who inhabited Loreab, - the Zargum, at leaft part of it; fee.

54. ‘ ins ee ¥. 3. And thefe were of the or of 3 Etam, Or of the prince of Etam, or, as_ thefe are princes that dwelt in far from Zorah, Fudg. xv. 8. an with Bethlebem and Yekoa in the t 2 Chron, xi. 6. namely, which follow Toma, and Idbaf, thefe were the fons of vernor of Etam: and the name of their y

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Hazelelponi; who perhaps was a perfon of great ‘note in thofe days, though now unknown; indeed, _a Fewifh chronologer * tells us, that the mother of Samfon was Hazalelponith, of the tribe of Judeb. y¥. 4. And Penuel the father of Gedor, &c.| The prince of that place, according to fome, and the fame with Hareph, ch. ii. 51. and Ezer the father _ of Hufhab, thought to be the fame with Shuah, y. ut. thefe are the fons of Hur, the firft-born of Epbratab; Calel’s wife, ch. ii. 19.

adds, the fame with Miriam; and fo other fewi/p writers * fay, Miriam had two names, and one was Epbratab though Fofepbus makes’ Hur to be her hufband, and not her fon, as here: who was ¢he father of Bethlehem, of the inhabitants of that city, at leaft part of them, or prince of that place, dwell in it, and of an increafe of his wordly fubftance for good ends and purpofes; or rather of a {piritual enlargement by deliverance from fpiritual enemies, and of grace as to exercife; and particularly of fpiritual light and- knowledge, and of the affections and defires of the foul after divine things, {ee Pf iv..1. and cxix. 32. 1 Kings iv.29. 2 Cor. Vi. 11,12. and that thine hand might be with me; the Targum adds, in bufinefs, profpering and. fucthe Targum ceding’ him; the fenfe may be, that his hand of providente might be with him to protect him, of grace and love to comfort and help him in every time of need, of wifdom to direé&t him, and of power to keep him: and that thou wouldft keep mé /vom evil; from the evil of affli€tion, and efpecias ally from the evil of fin, and from the evil one his grandfon Salma alfo was, ch. ii. 51.

fatan, and from all evil men and evil company;

y¥. 5. And Afbur the father of Tekoa, &c.] A fon the Targum is, “ and make me companions fuch of Hezron by Abiab, ch. ii. 24. had two wives, Helah and Naarab; as Lamech had, polygamy not being reckoned unlawful in thofe times.

y. 6. And Nearab bare him Abizam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Abafbtari, &c.| Of whom we have no account elfewhere: the/e were the fons of Naarab; the fecond wife of Afbur.

y¥. 7. And the fons of Helab, &c.] The other wife: -were Zereth, and Zoar, and Ethnan.]. No y. 8. And Coz, &c.] Another fon of Helah, and brother of the fore-mentioned: begat Anub, and Zobebah, of whom we no where elfe read: and the families of Abarbel, the fon of Harum; thefe asl am:” that it may not grieve me; alluding to his name Yasez, which he had from the forrow and grief of his mother; and nothing is more grieving to a good man than.the evil of fin, fo contrary to the nature and will of God, being committed againft a God of infinite love, grace and mercy, whereby the name, ways and truths of Chrift are difhonoured, and the Spirit of God: grieved, and faints are bereaved of much comfort 3 and therefore defire to be kept from it, knowing they cannot keep themfelves, but the Lord can and will, at leaft from the tyranny of it, and deftruction by it: the Targum is, ‘ left the evil figment (or corruption of nature) fhould move or provoke were of the pofterity of Coz; the, Targum is, ‘* and the family of ‘Abarbal, this is Hur, the firft-born of Miriam;” which is not at all probable.

y.9. And Fabez was more honourable than his brethren, &c.} The Targum adds, ‘‘ and wifer in the law than his brethren;” or he might be a man of great wealth and riches, or of great. ftrength and courage, all which make a man honourable; or he may be fo called, becaufe a praying man, as follows, a man of devotion and religion, a man of God, fee 1 Sam. ix. 6. but who he was is not eafy to fay, probably a fon or brother of Harum, or however that belonged to one of the families of Abarhbel, mentioned in the preceding verle; for that he was Othniel, as fay the Targumif? and other Fewifh writers*, is not probable, and befides is after fpoken of diftinét from him, y. 13. and bis mother called bis name ‘fabez, faying, becaufe I bare him with forrow; either with forrow for her hufband, being dead, or by reaforof very tharp pains fhe endured at the birth of him; he was anothér Benoni.

yw 10, And fabex called on the God of Ifrael, &c.] Or. prayed to’ him, as the Targum, though fome underftand it as: 4 vow, promifing what he would do if God would do thus and thus for him; the Syriae and Arabic verfions read in the third perfon, taking it to be what others, his parents and friends, wifhed! for him, /et him. blefs thee, 8c. but they me: and God granted him that which he requefted 5 as he does whatever is afked in faith, according to his will, and will make for his glory, and the good of his people; fee 1 Fobu v. 14, 15.

¥. 11. And Chelub the brother of Shuab begat Mebir, &c,| Af Shuab is the fame with Hufhab, ¥. 4. then Chelub was the fon of Exer: which was the father of Efhton; not the prince of a place called Ejfhten, as Vatablus; for it isthe name of a man, the fon of Mehir, and who in the next verfe is faid to beget fons.

¥. 12. And Efbton begat Beth-rapha, &c.} Or the family of Rapha: and Pafeah, and Tebinnab the father of Ir-nabafh;, or the city of Nabafh; Tebinnab {cems to have. been the prince or governor of acity, focalled: thefe are the men of Rechah 3 thefe fons of Ejhion dwelt in a place called Rechab; the Targum, without any reafon, fays, thefe are the men of the great Sanbedrim.)

¥.13. And the fons of Kenaz, &c.| Who was either the fon of Chelub, or of Efbton: Otbniel, and Seraiab; the firft of thefe is he who is mentioned, o/b. xv. 17. Fudg.i. 13. and iii. 9. and was the firft jadge in J/rael: and the fon of Otbniel, Hathath, and the next mentioned.

¥.14. And Meonothai, &c.], Another fon of Othniel: begat Opbrah; and Seraiah, the brother of Oshuiel, begat Foab; not David's generals, are doubtlefS his own words, and a fupplication of his to the Lord: faying, ob that thou wouldeft ble but another of the fame name, who lived long s me indeed, the Targum adds, with children's but he no doubt prayed for greater bleffings than any outward or temporal ones are, even {piritual bleffings, covenant-bleffings, the fare mercies of David, which are folid, fubftantial, durable and irreverfible: and enlarge my coat, the Targum is, *« multiply my borders with difciples.” It may be before him, fee ch. ii. 54. the father of the valley- of Charafim; of the inhabitants of the valley, or the prince of them, ealled the valley of craftfmen, Neb.

xi. 35. the reafon of which is here given: for they were craft/men; that dwelt in it, carpenters and miths,

{both which the word fignifies, ‘men, that wrought, in ftone, wood and iron, ¥.15. And the fons of Caleb the fon of Sepbunneb, underftood of an enlargement of the borders of &c.) Zephunneb is not the fame with Hearen, as

“his country, by expelling the Canaanites that might che Targum, led the Kemezite, Fofb. xiv. 6. and brother of Ordniel, and Caleb his fon is the fame that was fent one of the {pies of the land of Canaan by Mo/es, fee Numb. xiii. 6. and xiv. 6. his fons were Ira, Elab, and Naam; of whom we no were elfe read: and the fons of Elah, even Kenaz, another Kenaz, or rather it fhould be read Uknaz; fo Farchi and Kimchi.

y.16. And the fons of Fabaleleel, &c.] Who probably was the fon of Uknaz: Ziph, and Ziphab, Tiria, and Afareel, there were two cities 1n the tribe of Judah of the name of Ziph, Fofd. xv. 24, 25. which might be called from thefe men, or y.17. And the fons of Ezra, &c.] Who was perhaps the fon of d/aree/, laft mentioned: ether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; only one of them, Mered, is after-mentioned: and fhe bare Mi- another fon of Mered by his laft wife, or the ms ie: with’ Shammai, ¥. 17. were Amnon, and Rinnab, © ¥ Ben-banan, and Tilon; no where elfe mentioned: and the fons of Ibi, who it may be was the brother of Shimon or Tilon: were Zobeth, and Ben-zobeth; of whom we know no more than their names. s* ¥. 21. The fons of Shelab, the fon of Fudah were,

&c.] The genealogy of the pofterity of Judah, in the lines of Pharez and Zerab being given, and very Jargely in that of the former, becaufe of the” honour of David, and his kingdom, which fprang from thence, as Farchi obferves, and alfo the king Meffiah; the writer returns to give an account of his pofterity by Sée/ab, a fon he had by the dayghter of Shuab, Gen. xxxviil. 2— 5. and the only one that had children: which were as follows, Er the father of Lecah; prince of a city of this name in the tribe of Fudab, Shelah gave him the name of viam 4 which is not the name of a woman, but of Zr, in memory of his brother, Gen. xxxviii. 3.

a man, as’ Kimchi obferves; and, according to him, his mother was the wife of Mered, which he gathers from the next verfe; though fhe feems to be the wife of Ezra, who bare him other fons; and Shammai, and Ibbath the father of Efhtemoa, a prince of a city in the tribe of 7udah, fo called, Fofb. XV. 50. and xxi. 14.

y. 18. And his wife Febudijab, &c.] Another wite of Ezra; or, according to Kimchi, of Mered; a Fewe/s, as the word is by fome rendered, to diftinguifh her from another wife, an Egyptian, in the latter part of the verfe: bare Fered the father of

Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Fekuthiel the father of Zanoab, who were princes, as Farchi feems rightly to obferve; of feveral cities of thefe names in the tribe of fudah, as of Gedor, fee o/h. xv. 58. of Socob, ¥. 35, 48. of Zanoab, y.34. the

Targum interprets the names of all thefe men of

Mofes, whom Pherach’s daughter brought up; and fo other Fewi/h writers *, into which miftake they were led by what follows: and thefe are the fons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took; that is, to wife; this Mered was one of the fons of Ezra, y..17. the Targum, and other Fewih writers > fay, this was Caleb, called Mered, becaufe he rebelled againft the counfel of the fpies; but this contradicts their other notion of Yehudijab, or Bithiah, Pharaok’s daughter, whom he married, being the bringer-up of Mo/es, fince Mofes was elder than Caleb; but Bithiah, whom Mered married, was not a daughter of Pharaoh king of Egypt, but of an L/raelite of this name; her fons are uppofed to be thofe in the latter part of y. 17. ¥.19. And the fons of his wife Hediah, &c. ] Another wife of Mered. Hillerus* takes her to be the fame with Febudijah, ¥. 18. though fome * take Hodiah to be the name of a man, and read the words, and the fons of the wife of Hodiah; which wife of Hodiah was the fifter of Nabam; or rather Achstnaham we render the fifter of Naham, is the name of the firft fon of Hodiah, as fome think *:

the father of Keilab the Garmite, prince of the city of Keilah, in the tribe of Fudab, ‘fob. xv. 44. who {prune from the family of Garmi: and Efhtemoa the Maacbathite, the father or prince of the inhabitants of E/btemoa, another city in the fame tribe, fee y.17. who fprung from Maasbha, fee ch. ii.

48. ¥.20. And the fons of Shimon, &c.] Perhaps and Laadah the father of Mareah; prince of a city of this ndme in the fame tribe, Fob. xv. 44. and the families of the boufe of them that wrought jine linen, of the boufe of Afbbea; which laft claufe — explains what houfe thefe families were. of, which fprang from Shelab, and were employed in making fine linen; the Targum adds, for the garments of kings and priefts, or for the curtains of the tabernacle, as Yarchi; for not with the Ezyptians and Greeks only fine linen was made, but among the Hebrews, as Pau/anias ‘ teftifies.

¥. 22. And Fokim,&c.] The Vulgate Latin verfion is, and be that made the fun to fland; as it JFofoua was meant; and in the Talmud it is ® faid YFokim, this is Fofbua, who confirmed the oath to the Gibeonites; and the Targum here is, ‘* and the prophets of the fcribes that fprang from the po- {terity of Fofbua;” but Fofhua was of the tribe of Ephraim, and not of Fudab; though fome interpret it of Elimelech, as Lyra obferves*, of whom the fable is, that the fun ftood {till at his prayers, as it did in Yo/bua’s time, to convert the men.of Bethlehem, but Fokim is no doubt the proper name of fome famous man or family that defcended from Shelah: and the men of Chozeba; which fignifies a lye; andthe Targum interprets it of the Gideonites, who lied to Fo/bua; but thole were Canaanites, and not of the pofterity of Shelab, and tribe of Fudabh, Chezib or Achzib, a city in the tribe of Judab, very probably is meant, as Kimebi, the very place where Shelab was born, Gen. xxxviii, 5, and - where dwelt fome of his pofterity: and Foalb and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab; fome render the word, which married in Moab; and fo the Targum interprets it of Mablon and Chilion, who took wives of the daughters of Moad; but rather it is to be underftood of fome who were governors in Moab in the times of David, when Moab was fabdued by him, 2 Sam. viii. 2. or however were fuch, who at one time or another, made war with Mad, and overcame them: and Fafhubi-lebems; which the Targumift underftands of Boaz, prince of the wife men of the fchool of Bethlebem, and the Talmudifis * of Ruth, that dwelt in Bethlehem, and may be interpreted of fome of the inhabitants of that place which fprang from Shelab; or rather is the name of a fingle man famous in his time, tho’ not now known: amd thefe are antient things, account of perfons that lived in tee Key ah which the writer of this book gives not on his own knowledge, but by tradition, or rather by i infpiration.

¥. 23. These were the potters, &c.]. Or are the potters; the pofterity of thofe men, who were, fo famous in their day, are.now of mean employments: fome of them made earthen pots; 5 and fome of them dwelt among plants and hedzes; or were employed in planting gardens and or rchards, and making fences for doers 3 OF, as other think, dwelt an Netaim and Gadara, cities in the tribe of dah:

shere they dwelt with the king for his work; to make pots, plant gardens, ‘and fet hedges for cued 3 either for the king of udab, or it may be for the king of Badylen, elete they were carried captive, and now chofe to remain, doing thofe fervile works for the king, without the city in the fields.

as the latter part of the chaptet tefifes, though they are no where elfe taken notice of. Famlechs as Fabritius* oblerves, is not very different from Jamblichus, the name of a famous Flatonic philofopher.

¥. 38. Thefe mentioned by their names, were prinec$ in their famiiies, 8ec.| The principal men of them, heads of their fathers houfes: and the houfe of their fathers increafed greatly; by them, {o that, they were obliged toieék out for new habitations, as follows,

¥.39. And they went to the entrance of Geder, &c.} © There wasa city of this name in the tribe of Yudab, x18. but this feems to be farther off, and perhaps is the fame with Gedaris, mentioned by Strebo' along with Azotus and Afce lon, cities that belonged to “the Philiftines 5 fince it was inhabited

¥.24. The fons of Simeon, 8c.) The account of whom, next to the tribe of Fudab,; is given before “Reuben, becaule its inheritance lay in the tribe Fudab, Fofo. xix. 1. his fons were’ Nemuel, the| fame with Femuel, Gen. xlvi. 10. and Yamin, Farth, Zerak, and Shaul; who, in the place referred ¥.40. to, is faid tobe the fon of a Canaunitih woman; and Farid and Zerab are the fame with Fachin and Zebar there; and Obed is here omitted, it may be, becaufe he died without iffue; fee Numd. by the pofterity of Ham, of whom the Pdiliftines were, as in the following verfe: even unto the cajt of [fide of the valley, Phigh, was near to Gedor, and a fuitable place: to feek pafture for their flocks, theit theep and goats.

And they found fat pafture and good, &c.| In or near the valley of Gedor: and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceavle, there was room enough for them and their flocks, and they had no enemies on eithér fide to, diftutb them: jor they

BMV. £04, 14: of Ham had dwelt there of old; either the Canaanites

Ye 25. Shailum bis Jon, &c.] The fon of Shaul, and Mib/am was the fon of Shallum;

y. 27. And Shimei bad 16 fons and fix daughters, &c.}] None of which are mentioned by name: dut his brethren had not many children, Hamuel and Zacchur: neither did all their family “multiply children of Judah, to thew the fruitfulnefs and great increafe of which tribe, the genealogical account of it, in this and the two preceding chapters, is who defcended from Canaaa the fon of Ham, and and ™ fifbme had never been expelled from thence; or the Pbiof the Eeyptians, the potterity of Ham, and thefé inhabicants being of this curfed race, the Siineouites {crupled not to difpofiels them.

the fon of Mib/fam. liftines, who were a colony

¥. 26, And the fous of Mifbma, &c.] Thefe were Hamuel, Zecchur, and Shimet.

yt. 41. And thefe written by name, &c.| Before in ¥. 34, 35, 36, 37. came in the days of Hezekiab like to the) king of Fudab, as Dr. Lightfoct™ thinks, not within the firft 14 years of his reign, when the Sy- 7iam army was abroad, and none durft peep out, but in his laft 15 years, When the army was, de- given. ftroyed and gone: aud fmote their tents; the tents y. 28. And they dwelt at Beerfheba, &c.] The o£ thofe Who: dwelt there for the fake of feeding pofterity of Simeon; and this and the other places their flocks, and whole pafturage the Szmeonites of their habitation are mentioned in the fame or- wanted: and the habitations that were found there; der, and with very little variation of names to the end of ¥. 31. as in Joh. xix. 2—6. and here, at or the Meunim or Maonites,which the Sepiuagint verfion here calls Mineans, a people fometimes men-

¥. 31. it is added, thefe were their cities unto the tioned along withithe Pdilifines, and others; fee reign of David; when, according to Kimchi, and

Jude. x. 11, 12. t Chron. xxvi. 6, 7. and deftroyed other Fews writers, he expelled them from thence, ¢hem utterly unto this day; tothe writing of this book;

and reftered them to the tribe of Fudab.

they had not then recovered their poffeffions: and ¥.32. And their villages were Etam, and Ain, dwelt in their room, becaufe there was pajture there Rimmon, and Tochen, and Afhan, five cities.| There for their flocks, whieh was the thing they were in are but four mentioned in Fo/m. xix. 7. one might fearch of. be added fince, or new built, namely, Tochen;

y. 42. And fome of them, éven of the fons of Si- thefe, according to Kimchi, were all that remained meon, 500 men went to mount Seir, &c.} In the for them to dwell in, in the times of David; and land ot Edom: having for their captains Pelatiah, therefore they were obliged to feck out for new and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the fons fettlements for themfelves and flocks, as in ¥. 39, of Yhi; thefe four captains are faid, by the ancient

Rabbins, to be of the tribe of Manaffeb, as Kimchi

¥. 33. And all their villages that were round about the fame cities, unto Baal, &c.] The fame| with Baalath-beer, Fafb. xix. 8. “thefe were their haobferves; fee ch. v. 24. but as the 500 they were at the head of, were of the fons of Simeon, the captains no doubt were of the fame race.

bitations, and sor Bacids; as before defcribed,

W¥. 43. And they fmote the reft of the Amalekites until the times of David.

¥. 34—37- And Mefhobach, and Famlech, &c.]| Thefe, with thofe that follow to the end of ¥. 37. were famous men in the tribe of Simeon, of rank| - and dignity, and eminent for courage and yalour, Saul; though, according to the Yews", 100,000 of them were flain by him in one day; and of ‘the word of David, though he is faid not to leave man er woman alive, 1 Sam, xxvii. 8, 9. and dwelt that were efcaped, &c.| ‘That efcaped the {word of by the king of Afyria, and who dwelt here after