1st Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 13 Holy Bible
And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
read chapter 4 in ASV
And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
read chapter 4 in BBE
-- And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
read chapter 4 in DARBY
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.
read chapter 4 in KJV
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.
read chapter 4 in WBT
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
read chapter 4 in WEB
And sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath.
read chapter 4 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-15. - We return here to the neighbourhood of names not quite strange. From comparison of the many passages in Numbers, Joshua, and Judges, which contain references to Othniel and Caleb (son of Jephunneh), the stronger conclusion to which we are led is that Othniel was younger brother of Caleb (probably not by both the same parents) and Kenaz a forefather, of course not literally father. The conclusion is not arrived at without difficulty, or with any real certainty. In the present instance, e.g., why should Othniel, if the younger brother and so expressly and repeatedly mentioned, be taken first? For the possible Kenaz of this passage, we might then refer to 1 Chronicles 1:53; Genesis 36:42. Hathath. The marginal reading, which joins Meonothai at once to Hathath, and then supplies "who" before "begat Ophrah," is decidedly to be adopted. Joab son of Seraiah is not to be assumed to be one with Joab son of Zeruiah. The valley of the Charashim (see also Nehemiah 11:35), i.e. smiths, or craftsmen, lay east of Jaffa, and behind the plain of Sharon; and is said by Jerome, in his 'Quaestiones Hebraicae in Paral.,' to have been, according to tradition, named so because the architects of the temple came thence. Iru. Perhaps the real name is It, and the final vau rather an initial for the next name. Elah. Probably another name is wanting after this, which the vau will then join to Kenaz; otherwise, as vau will not translate "even," the following name will become, as in the margin, Uknaz. The wanting name might be the Jehalaleel of the next verse. This last name is in the Hebrew identical with the Jehalelel of our Authorized Version (2 Chronicles 29:12).
