1 Chronicles 4:18

18 His Judean wife was the mother of Jered, who first settled Gedor, Heber, who first settled Soco, and Jekuthiel, who first settled Zanoah.

1 Chronicles 4:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:18

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 Joshua 15:48 ) , 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 {a}, 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, 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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FOOTNOTES:

F1 T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 13. 1. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 146. 3.
F2 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 2. & Megillah, fol. 13. 1.

1 Chronicles 4:18 In-Context

16 Jehallelel's sons were Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

17 Ezrah's sons were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. His wife gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, who first settled Eshtemoa.

18 His Judean wife was the mother of Jered, who first settled Gedor, Heber, who first settled Soco, and Jekuthiel, who first settled Zanoah.

19 The sons of Hodiah's wife, the sister of Naham, first settled Keilah of the Garmites and Eshtemoa of the Maacathites.

20 Shimon's sons were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. Ishi's sons were Zoheth and Ben Zoheth.