1 Chronik 4:18

18 Und sein Weib, die Jüdin, gebar Jered, den Vater Gedors, und Heber, den Vater Sokos, und Jekuthiel, den Vater Sanoachs. Und dies sind die Söhne der Bithja, der Tochter des Pharao, welche Mered genommen hatte. -

1 Chronik 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 Chronik 4:18 In-Context

16 Und die Söhne Jehallelels: Siph und Sipha, Tirja und Asarel. -

17 Und die Söhne Esras: Jether und Mered und Epher und Jalon. Und sie wurde schwanger und gebar Mirjam und Schammai und Jischbach, den Vater Estemoas.

18 Und sein Weib, die Jüdin, gebar Jered, den Vater Gedors, und Heber, den Vater Sokos, und Jekuthiel, den Vater Sanoachs. Und dies sind die Söhne der Bithja, der Tochter des Pharao, welche Mered genommen hatte. -

19 Und die Söhne des Weibes Hodijas, der Schwester Nachams: der Vater Kehilas, der Garmiter, und Estemoa, der Maakathiter. -

20 Und die Söhne Schimons: Amnon und Rinna, Benchanan und Tilon. Und die Söhne Jischeis: Socheth und Ben-Socheth. -