1 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. 1Chr 2:9, Chelubai, 1Chr 2:18-19, 1Chr 2:24 his firstborn Gen 49:3; Exod 4:22-23; Rom 8:29; Heb 12:23 the 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 Josh 15:24; 1Sam 23:19, 1Sam 26:1 the father of Hebron 1Chr 2:23-24, 1Chr 2:45, 1Chr 2:49, 1Chr 2:52, 1Chr 8:29; Ezra 2:21-35; Neh 7:25-38
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