The interpretation timeline

1Chr 2:42

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Jewish · 1 Methodist · 1 Catholic · 1 Reformed · 1 Lutheran

1Chr 2:42 · Douay-Rheims
“Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerameel were Mesa his firstborn, who was the father of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of Hebron.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel Since he traced the lineage of part of the family of Caleb and interrupted in the lineage of Jerahmeel, it was necessary to say that Caleb was the brother of Jerahmeel, that this was not another Caleb. This is the manner of the entire genealogy: he does not trace lineages in sequence. He traces the lineage of part of such and such a family; he goes on to other families, and when he has completed part of this family, he goes back to tracing the lineage of the first family, and then returns to the other one, and the entire book of genealogy is mixed. he was the father of Ziph The ruler of Ziph, the ruler of all the inhabitants of Mareshah, and the ruler of Hebron, and the names of these towns are mentioned in the Book of Joshua (15:24, 44, 54), as it is written: “Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, etc.” (And it is written there:) “And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah, and Hebron (sic).””
Source
727 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke Methodist
1762–1832
“Now the sons of Caleb - This was not Caleb the son of Jephunneh, but Caleb the son of Hezron, Ch1 2:18, Ch1 2:50. But some think that Caleb the son of Hezron was the grandson of Caleb, son of Jephunneh; but this is probably fanciful. The father of Ziph - "The prince of the Ziphites." - T.”
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Caleb, or Calubi, ver. 9. Ziph, Maresa, and Hebron, are the names of towns, as well as of men. The descendants of Mesa inhabited Ziph, and those of Maresa dwelt at Hebron. The same remark will hold good in other places, where the names of places are put for those who occupied them. (Calmet) — And the sons. Hebrew, “and of the sons of Maresa.” (Vatable) — But it may be as well explained in the sense of the Vulgate. Septuagint, “Marisa, his first-born. He was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Marisa, of the father of Hebron.” — Father. Literally, “of the father,” patris Hebron. (Haydock)”
Source
1871
A.D.
1871
“the sons of Caleb--(compare Ch1 2:18, Ch1 2:25). The sons here noticed were the fruit of his union with a third wife.”
1875
A.D.
Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran
1861–1875
“She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah,.... Prince of a place so called, in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:31. Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibeah; prince of two cities of those names in the same tribe; of the latter see Jos 15:57, and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah; Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, had a daughter of this name, but neither he nor she are here meant, Jos 15:16 but by whom Caleb, the son of Hezron, had this daughter, is not said; perhaps by Maachah his concubine last mentioned.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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