1st Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 1 Holy Bible
The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah: Pherez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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Sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-23. - After the large space given to the "sons of David," of the tribe of Judah, in the previous chapter, this chapter returns for twenty-three verses to group together a few additional ramifications of the same tribe, whose registers were for some reasons, perhaps not very evident, preserved and known. The first verses follow in the direction already indicated in ch. 2, near the end of which we were left with Shobal and Haroeh, probably the same with Reaiah (the same name as Reaia, 1 Chronicles 5:5, though not the same person). Verses 1, 2. - The Carrot of ver. 1 is considered to lie doubtful between the Carmi of 1 Chronicles 2:7 or the Chelubai of 1 Chronicles 2:9, in which last alternation the five names of this verse would repeat the line of descent with which chrii, had made us familiar. Even then the object or advantage of repeating the first four of these, so far as what follows is concerned, is not evident. We keep near the close of ch. 2. also in respect of another allusion to the Zorathites (1 Chronicles 2:53), whose families were replenished by the two sons of Jahath, Ahumai and Lahad, of all of whom this is all we know.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) The sons of Judah.--Pharez only of these five was literally a son of Judah, 1Chronicles 2:3-4. We have, however, seen that all these names, with the possible exception of Carmi, represent great tribal divisions or clans; and as such they are called sons of Judah. For Carmi it is proposed to read the more famous name of Chelubai (1Chronicles 2:9). This would give a line of direct descendants from Judah to the fifth generation, according to the genealogical presentation of 1Chronicles 2:4; 1Chronicles 2:9; 1Chronicles 2:18-19. But the result thus obtained is of no special value. It has no bearing on the remainder of the section. Moreover, Carmi is mentioned (1Chronicles 2:7) among the great Judean houses, and might have been prominent in numbers and influence at the unknown period when the original of the present list was drafted. . . .
