Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 4:17
And the sons of Ezra [were], Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
17. and Jalon: and she bare Miriam ] As the text stands she has no antecedent. It has therefore been proposed to transfer from 1Ch 4:18 the words And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took, and put them after Jalon. Bithiah then appears as the mother of Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah, and the difficulty of the absence of her sons’ names from 1Ch 4:18 disappears. For father of Eshtemoa see 1Ch 2:14 note, and for Eshtemoa see Jos 21:14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
She bare Miriam – Rather, she conceived. The mother is not mentioned, and it seems impossible to restore the original text with any certainty.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Ezra; the son of Ashriel last named.
She bare; she, i.e. Bithiah, bare unto Mered, as may seem by comparing this with 1Ch 4:18.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
17, 18. she bare MiriamIt isdifficult, as the verses stand at present, to see who is meant. Thefollowing readjustment of the text clears away the obscurity: “Theseare the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took,and she bare Miriam, and his wife Jehudijah bare Jezreel,” &c.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the sons of Ezra,…. Who was perhaps the son of Asareel, last mentioned:
Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; only one of them, Mered, is after mentioned:
and she bare Miriam; which is not the name of a woman, but of a man, as Kimchi observes; and, according to him, his mother was the wife of Mered, which he gathers from the next verse; though she seems to be the wife of Ezra, who bare him other sons:
and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa; a prince of a city in the tribe of Judah, so called, Jos 15:50.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) And the sons of Ezra.Heb., son, but some MSS. have sons (see Note on 1Ch. 3:19; 1Ch. 3:21). Ezra means help = Ezer, 1Ch. 4:4.
Jether occurred 1Ch. 2:32, as a Jerahmeelite.
Epher recurs 1Ch. 5:24, as a Manassite name.
Jalon and Mered occur nowhere else.
And she bare.Literally, conceived. Who bare the three sons, whose names follow, is not clear from the preceding statement, which includes none but male appellations. The LXX. reads, And Jether bare Maron (Miriam), &c, and the Syriac and Arabic omit 1Ch. 4:17-18. This confirms our suspicion that the text is faulty.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 4:17 And the sons of Ezra [were], Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
Ver. 17. And the sons of Ezra. ] Not that learned scribe, Ezr 7:1 – there is a difference in the last letter of their names – but the son, as it seems, of Asareel.
And she bare,
Miriam.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Ezra: Ezra seems to be the person before called Asareel in 1Ch 4:16.
and she bare Miriam: It is probable that the latter part of 1Ch 4:18, should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks is its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father’s being mentioned.
Eshtemoa: 1Ch 4:19, 1Ch 6:57, Jos 15:50, Eshtemoh, 1Ch 21:24, 1Sa 30:28