Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 9:4
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
4. Uthai ] In Neh. Athaiah. The two words are more alike in Heb. than in English and are perhaps to be regarded as various readings of one name.
Pharez ] R.V. Perez, as in 1Ch 2:4-5 (R.V.); Gen 38:29 (R.V.); and Neh 11:4 (A.V. also). We have here (1Ch 9:4-6) a threefold division of the tribe of Judah into the descendants of Perez, Shelah, and Zerah, just as in Num 26:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 4. Uthai the son of Ammihud] The list here is nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel; but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards. The object of the sacred writer here was to give the list of those who came first. Now the first inhabitants, &c.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
That there is so great a diversity of names between this catalogue and that Ne 11, may be ascribed to two causes:
1. To the custom of the Hebrews, who used very frequently to give two or three several names to one person; and,
2. To the change of times; for here they are named who came up at the first return; but many of those in Nehemiah might be such as returned afterward, and came and dwelt either instead of the persons here named, who might be then dead, or gone from Jerusalem, or with them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Uthai, the son of Ammihud,…. Called Athaiah, Ne 11:4 though his ancestors there are differently reckoned here; his genealogy here is traced from his father Ammihud, through Omri, Imri, Bani, Pharez, to Judah.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
In the same place there dwelt, of the sons of Judah, three chiefs of the three most important families of Judah, that of Pharez, that of Shelah, and that of Zerah; cf. 1Ch 2:3-4. Of the family of Pharez was Uthai, whose descent is traced back in 1Ch 9:4 to Bani, of the children of Pharez. The Kethibh is clearly to be read according to the Keri . The name Bani occurs, 1Ch 6:31, among the Merarites; while in the genealogies of Judah, 1 Chron 2-4, neither Bani nor Uthai, nor any one of his ancestors who are here named, is mentioned. In Neh 11:4, on the contrary, there is named of the sons of Pharez, Athaiah ( , perhaps only another form of ), with quite other ancestors; while not a single one of the five names of the persons through whom his race is traced back to Mahalaleel, of the sons of Pharez, coincides with the ancestors of Uthai.
1Ch 9:5 Of the family of Shelah, Asaiah the first-born, and his other) sons. , after , can only be understood of the other sons or descendants. But the epithet give to Asaiah, , is surprising, for it is a formation from or , and appears to denote a native of Shiloh, a well-known city of Ephraim. This derivation, however, is not suitable, since here the sons (descendants) of Judah are enumerated; and no connection between the inhabitants of Judah and the Ephraimite city Shiloh can either be proved or is at all likely. The older commentators, therefore, have suggested the reading , as in Num 26:20, where the family of Shelah, the third sons of Judah, is so called. This suggestion is doubtless correct, and the erroneous punctuation has probably arisen only from the scriptio plena of the word instead of . This supposition is confirmed by the fact that the form is found in Neh 11:5, although it also is pointed . In Neh. loc. cit., instead of Asaiah, Maaseiah is introduced as in the seventh generation, while no ancestors whatever of our Asaiah are mentioned. The name , moreover, is not unfrequent, and occurs in 1Ch 4:36 among the Simeonites; in 1Ch 6:15; 1Ch 15:6, 1Ch 15:11, among the Levites; in 2Ki 22:12, 2Ki 22:14 and 2Ch 34:20, as of the King Josiah. is the name of many persons, e.g., in 1Ch 15:18, 1Ch 15:20, and likewise in 2Ch 23:1; Jer 21:1; Jer 29:21; Jer 35:4; and elsewhere it is used of men of other tribes: so that even should Maaseiah have been written instead of Asaiah merely by an error of transcription, we are not warranted in identifying our Asaiah with the Maaseiah of Nehemiah.
1Ch 9:6 “Of the sons of Zerah, Jeuel;” also the name of various persons; cf. 1Ch 5:7; 2Ch 26:11: the register in Neh 11 notices no descendants of Zerah. “And their brethren, 690 (men).” The plural suffix in cannot be referred, as Bertheau thinks, to Jeuel, for that name, as being that of the head of a father’s-house, cannot be a collective. The suffix most consequently refer to the three heads mentioned in 1Ch 9:4-6, Uthai, Asaiah, and Jeuel, whose brethren are the other heads of fathers’-houses of the three families descended from Judah; cf. 1Ch 9:9, where the number of the mentioned refers to all the heads who had formerly been spoken of.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(4) Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani.Neh. 11:4 traces this line thus: Athaiah son of Uzjiah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez. Uthai is equivalent to Athaiah, and Imri to Amariah, by a common contraction. The other intermediate names in the two series do not coincide; but this does not prove that Uthai and Athaiah are different clans. Many more than five or six members would obviously be required to constitute a complete genealogical stem, reaching from post-exilic times to the age of the tribal patriarchs. We may therefore conclude that the compiler has chosen to select different names in each case from a longer list, which comprised both series.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
Ver. 4. Uthai, &c. ] See the same catalogue in Neh 11:4-36 , though with some alteration of names, as before often.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Bani: Neh 8:7, Neh 10:13
Pharez: 1Ch 2:5, 1Ch 4:1, Gen 46:12, Num 26:20, Neh 11:4, Neh 11:6, Perez
Reciprocal: Gen 38:29 – his name 1Ch 2:4 – Pharez 1Ch 7:23 – because Luk 3:33 – Phares
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 9:4. Ammihud That there is so great a diversity of names between this catalogue and that Nehemiah 11., may be ascribed to two causes. 1st, To the custom of the Hebrews, who used frequently to give several names to one person. And, 2d, To the change of times; for here they are named who came up at the first return: but many of those in Nehemiah might be such as returned afterward, and came and dwelt, either instead of the persons here named, or with them.