1st Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 11 Holy Bible
And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begat Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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And Chelub the brother of Shuah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
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And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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And Chelub brother of Shuah begat Mehir; he `is' father of Eshton.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11, 12. - Of the whole of the group of names, contained in these two verses, it must be said that we are in the dark. The suggestion of Grove, in his art. "Ir-enahash" (Smith's 'Bible Dictionary'), is worth notice, that possibly the versos may be a reminiscence of some Canaanitish graft on Judah - the Shuah (שׁוּחָה) of ver. 11 pointing to the Shua (שׁוַּע)of 1 Chronicles 2:3; Genesis 38:2. Beth-rapha (the house of the giant) looks more like the name of a place than of a person, though the text needs a person, and such may be covered possibly by this name, though it be of a place. Ir-nahash (the city of the serpent). Jerome, in his 'Quaestiones Hebraicae in Parah,' asserts or repeats the assertion of some one else that this is no other place than Bethlehem; taking Nahash as a synonym with Jesse. Unlikely as this is, no place of the name is known.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11-12) A fragment relating to the "men of Rechah," a name which occurs nowhere else, and for which Rechab appears a plausible correction. So the Vat., LXX. ?????. Compare 1Chronicles 2:55, where the Sopherim of Jabez are called Rechabites, and see Notes on the passage. These Rechabites united with the Salmaite branch of Hurites; and Hur was a son of Caleb, 1Chronicles 2:19. Hence it is likely that the Chelub of 1Chronicles 4:11 is identical with the Caleb-Chelubai of 1 Chronicles 2, who represents a main division of the Hezronites. Others suppose that the epithet, "brother of Shuah" (Shuhah), is meant to obviate this identification. The other names in this short section are wholly unknown. But their form shows at once that Beth-rapha and Ir-nahash (serpent city) are towns.Paseah (lame; comp. Latin Claudius as a family name) recurs Nehemiah 3:6; and as the name of a clan of Nethinim, Ezra 2:49, Nehemiah 7:51. The subscription, "these are the men of Rechah" (Rechab), probably looks back as far as 1Chronicles 4:8. . . .
