Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 4:19
And the sons of [his] wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
19. of his wife Hodiah ] R.V. of the wife of Hodiah.
Keilah ] a town of the Shephelah (Jos 15:44), the scene of one of David’s exploits (1Sa 23:1-5).
Eshtemoa the Maachathite ] The epithet distinguishes this Eshtemoa from that of 1Ch 4:17. The Maachathite may mean the descendant of Maachah (1Ch 2:48), the concubine of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
His wife Hodiah – Not as in the margin, but rather, the sons of the wife of Hodiah. Hodiah is elsewhere always a mans name Neh 8:7; Neh 9:5; Neh 10:10, Neh 10:13, Neh 10:18.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Hodiah, his third wife.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the sons of his wife Hodiah,…. Another wife of Mered. Hillerus c takes her to be the same with Jehudijah, 1Ch 4:18, though some d take Hodiah to be the name of a man, and read the words, “and the sons of the wife of Hodiah”; which wife of Hodiah was
the sister of Naham; or rather Achotnaham, we render the sister of Naham, is the name of the first son of Hodiah, as some think e:
the father of Keilah the Garmite; prince of the city of Keilah, in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:44 who sprung from the family of Garmi:
and Eshtemoa the Maachathite; the father or prince of the inhabitants of Eshtemoa, another city in the same tribe, see 1Ch 4:17 who sprung from Maachah, see 1Ch 2:48.
c Onomastic. Sacr. p. 836. d Michaelis in loc. e Beckii Not. in Targ. 1 Chron. iv. 19.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) And the sons of his wife Hodiah.The existing Hebrew text says, And the sons of Hodiahs wife. Hodiah recurs as a mans name in Neh. 8:7; Neh. 9:5; but a very slight changethe addition of three lettersin the Hebrew would give the sense: And sons of his Jewish wife, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa, &c.
Naham is unknown.
Keilah is a town in the Shephelah (Jos. 15:44), well known as the scene of Davids prowess and peril (1 Samuel 23).
Eshtemoa occurred in 1Ch. 4:17, in connexion with Ishbah, son of Ezra by Bithiah. (See Note there.) The Garmites and Maachathites are unknown clans. The former founded or were settled at Keilah. It appears that abi (father of) has dropped out of the text before Eshtemoa; the sense being that the Maachathites were settled at Eshtemoa; which, of course, they may have been, side by side with the half-Egyptian clan Ishbah. Maachah is mentioned, 1Ch. 2:48, as a concubine of Caleb. The list is still dealing with the Calebite division of Hezron.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Hodiah. The Jehudijah of 1Ch 4:18.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hodiah: or, Jehudijah, mentioned before, 1Ch 4:18
Keilah: Jos 15:44, 1Sa 23:1-13
Reciprocal: 1Ch 4:17 – Eshtemoa