1 Chronik 4:18

18 Und sein jüdisches Weib gebar Jered, den Vater Gedors; Heber, den Vater Sochos; Jekuthiel, den Vater Sanoahs.

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 Die Kinder aber Jehallel-Els waren Siph, Sipha, Thirja und Asareel.

17 Die Kinder aber Esras waren: Jether, Mered, Epher und Jalon. Und das sind die Kinder Bithjas, der Tochter Pharaos, die der Mered nahm: sie gebar Mirjam, Sammai, Jesbah, den Vater Esthemoas.

18 Und sein jüdisches Weib gebar Jered, den Vater Gedors; Heber, den Vater Sochos; Jekuthiel, den Vater Sanoahs.

19 Die Kinder des Weibes Hodijas, der Schwester Nahams, waren: der Vater Kegilas, der Garmiter, und Esthemoa, der Maachathiter.

20 Die Kinder Simons waren: Amnon und Rinna, Ben-Hanan und Thilon. Die Kinder Jeseis waren: Soheth und Ben-Soheth.