Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 4:1-10
One reason, no doubt, why Ezra is here most particular in the register of the tribe of Judah is because it was that tribe which, with its appendages, Simeon, Benjamin, and Levi, made up the kingdom of Judah, which not only long survived the other tribes in Canaan, but in process of time, now when this was written, returned out of captivity, when the generality of the other tribes were lost in the kingdom of Assyria. The most remarkable person in this paragraph is Jabez. It is not said whose son he was, nor does it appear in what age he lived; but, it should seem, he was the founder of one of the families of Aharhel, mentioned Ch1 4:8. Here is,
I. The reason of his name: his mother gave him t…
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The son of Harum - Jabez should be mentioned at the end of this verse, else he is as a consequent without an antecedent.
John Gill on 1 Chronicles 4:8
And Coz,.... Another son of Helah, and brother of the before mentioned:
begat Anub, and Zobebah; of whom we nowhere else read:
and the families of Aharhel, the son of Harum; these were of the posterity of Coz; the Targum is,
"and the family of Aharhel, this is Hur, the firstborn of Miriam;''which is not at all probable.
Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 4:8
And Coz,.... Another son of Helah, and brother of the before mentioned:
begat Anub, and Zobebah; of whom we nowhere else read:
and the families of Aharhel, the son of Harum; these were of the posterity of Coz; the Targum is,
"and the family of Aharhel, this is Hur, the firstborn of Miriam;''which is not at all probable.
Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 4:1-7
The genealogy of Judah continues, with links back to 2:1-55. The connection to Hur, the ancestor of Bethlehem, is provided immediately (4:1-4; see 2:19-20, 51-55).
