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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 4:18
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And his wife Jehudijah, etc.] 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 <061558>Joshua 15:58), of Socoh, (<061535>Joshua 15:35,48), of Zanoah, (<061534>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 f25 , 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, (<130417>1 Chronicles 4:17) the Targum, and other Jewish writers f26, 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 (<130417>1 Chronicles 4:17).
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