Joshua 15:58
Gedor.1Ch 4:391 Chronicles 2:42
Caleb.This was not Caleb the son of Jephunneh, but Caleb the son of Hezron, and therefore called the brother of Jerahmeel: See the parallel texts: 9Chelubai.18,19,24his first-born.Ge 49:3; Ex 4:22,23; Ro 8:29; Heb 12:23the father. i.e, the founder.Or, as the Targum renders, "the prince of the Ziphites;" for it was usual to call both the founder and the prince of a city its father. Ziph.Jos 15:24; 1Sa 23:19; 26:1the father of Hebron.23,24,45,49,52; 8:29; Ezr 2:21-35; Ne 7:25-381 Chronicles 4:4
Gedor.18,39; Jos 15:36Hur.2:19,501 Chronicles 4:39
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 12:13Geder.Jos 15:58
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