18<\/strong>. his wife<\/em> ] the wife of Mered, if the transposition mentioned in the last note be accepted.<\/p>\n his wife Jehudijah<\/em> ] R.V. his wife the Jewess<\/strong> (so called in contrast to his Egyptian wife).<\/p>\n Gedor<\/em> ] Cp. 1Ch 4:4<\/span>, where a different person is perhaps by a different tradition called father of Gedor. Gedor<\/em> is to be identified with the ruins of Jedur on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron ( Bdeker<\/em>, p. 135)<\/p>\n Socho<\/em> ] R.V. Soco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Socho Zanoah<\/em> ] The two places are mentioned in the reverse order in Jos 15:34-35<\/span> as situated in the lowland (Shephelah). Zb‘a still exists ( Bdeker<\/em>, p. 161).<\/p>\n these<\/em> are the sons of Bithiah<\/em> ] See note on 1Ch 4:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n His wife – <\/B>i. e. Mereds. Mered, it would seem, had two wives, Bithiah, an Egyptian woman, and a Jewish wife (see the margin), whose name is not given. If Mered was a chief of rank, Bithlah may have been married to him with the consent of her father, for the Egyptian kings often gave their daughters in marriage to foreigners. Or she may have elected to forsake her countrymen and cleave to a Jewish husband, becoming a convert to his religion. Her name, Bithiah, daughter of Yahweh, is like that of a convert.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 18<\/span>. And his wife Jehudijah<\/B><\/I>] The Targum considers the names in this verse as epithets<\/I> of Moses: “And his wife Jehuditha educated Moses after she had drawn him out of the water: and she called his name Jered<\/I>, because he caused the manna to descend<\/I> upon Israel; and Prince Gedor<\/I>, because he restored the desolations<\/I> of Israel; Heber<\/I> also, because he joined<\/I> Israel to their heavenly Father; and Prince Socho<\/I>, because he overshadowed<\/I> Israel with his righteousness, and Jekuthiel<\/I>, because the Israelites waited<\/I> on the God of heaven in his time, forty years in the desert; and prince Zanoah<\/I>, because God, on his account, had passed<\/I> by the sins of Israel. These names Bithiah<\/I>, the daughter of Pharaoh, called him by the spirit of prophecy, for she became a proselyte; and Mered took her to himself to wife: he is Caleb, and was so called because he opposed<\/I> the counsel of the spies.” – T<\/I>. A similar explanation is given by Jarchi<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n His wife; <\/B>either Ezras wife, or rather, another wife of Mered. Jehudijah<\/I>; or, the Jewess<\/I>; so called to distinguish her from his Egyptian wife here following. <\/P> These are the sons, <\/B>to wit, Miriam, and the rest following, 1Ch 4:17<\/span>. <\/P> The daughter of Pharaoh; <\/B>either <\/P> 1. Of Pharaoh king of Egypt for Mered might be a person of great estate and quality; or this might be only Pharaohs illegitimate daughter. Or, <\/P> 2. Of some other Egyptian or Israelite called by that name; which might easily happen upon divers occasions. <\/P> <\/p>\n 18. Jehudijah<\/B>“theJewess,” to distinguish her from his other wife, who was anEgyptian. This passage records a very interesting factthe marriageof an Egyptian princess to a descendant of Caleb. The marriage musthave taken place in the wilderness. The barriers of a differentnational language and national religion kept the Hebrews separatefrom the Egyptians; but they did not wholly prevent intimacies, andeven occasional intermarriages between private individuals of the twonations. Before such unions, however, could be sanctioned, theEgyptian party must have renounced idolatry, and this daughter ofPharaoh, as appears from her name, had become a convert to theworship of the God of Israel. <\/P> 1Ch4:21-23<\/span>. POSTERITY OFSHELAH.<\/P><\/p>\n And his wife Jehudijah<\/strong>,…. Another wife of Ezra; or, according to Kimchi, of Mered; a Jewess, as the word is by some rendered, to distinguish her from another wife, an Egyptian, in the latter part of the verse:<\/p>\n bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah<\/strong>; who were princes, as Jarchi seems rightly to observe; of several cities of these names in the tribe of Judah, as of Gedor, see Jos 15:58<\/span>, of Socoh, Jos 15:35<\/span>, of Zanoah, Jos 15:34<\/span>, the Targum interprets the names of all these men of Moses, whom Pharaoh’s daughter brought up; and so other Jewish writers a, into which mistake they were led by what follows:<\/p>\n and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took<\/strong>; that is, to wife; this Mered was one of the sons of Ezra, 1Ch 4:17<\/span> the Targum, and other Jewish writers b, say this was Caleb, called Mered, because he rebelled against the counsel of the spies; but this contradicts their other notion of Jehudijah, or Bithiah, Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he married, the one who brought up Moses, since Moses was elder than Caleb; but Bithiah, whom Mered married, was not a daughter of Pharaoh king of Egypt, but of an Israelite of this name; her sons are supposed to be those in the latter part of 1Ch 4:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n a T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 13. 1. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 146. 3. b T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 2. & Megillah, fol. 13. 1.<\/p>\n (18) And his wife Jehudijah<\/strong> [Margin is right, the Jewess<\/em>] bare Jered.<\/strong>It is obvious that a contrast with the sons of some non-Jewish wife is intended, and these latter ought already to have been mentioned. Clearly, therefore, the sentence And these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered tooka sentence which is meaningless in its present positionmust be restored to its original place after the first statement of 1Ch. 4:17<\/span>. We thus get the sense: And the sons of Ezra were Jepher and Mered, and Epher and Jalon. And these [the following] are the sons of Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took [to wife]; she conceived Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. And his [Mereds] wife the Jewess bare Jered . . . Zanoah. Thus the house of Mered son of Ezra bifurcates into a purely Judan and a mixed Egyptian group of families. Eshtemoa (1Ch. 4:17<\/span>) lay south of Hebron, in the hil-country (Jos. 15:50<\/span>).<\/p>\n Gedor.<\/strong>See 1Ch. 4:4<\/span>, where Penuel is called father of Gedor. The two lists may, and probably do, refer to different epochs.<\/p>\n Socho.<\/strong>Jos. 15:35<\/span>; in the Shephelah, south-west of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n Zanoah.<\/strong>Two Judan towns were so named, one in the Shephelah, the other in the highlands (Jos. 15:34<\/span>; Jos. 15:56<\/span>).<\/p>\n Jekuthiel<\/strong> occurs here only; but comp. Joktheel (Jos. 15:38<\/span>), a town in the Shephelah.<\/p>\n Bithiah the daughter<\/strong> of Pharaoh.<\/strong>Bithiah is apparently Hebrew, daughter of Iah, that is, a convert to the religion of Israel. It may be a Hebraized form of Bent-Aah, daughter of the Moon, or some like native name. Daughter of Pharaoh, if the nomenclature be tribal, need only mean an Egyptian clan which amalgamated with that of Mered. On the other hand, comp. 2Ch. 8:11<\/span> and 1Ki. 9:24<\/span>, where the phrase is used in its literal sense.<\/p>\n 1Ch 4:18<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>The daughter of Pharaoh<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Pharaoh, <\/em>in this place, is not the name of an Egyptian king, but of some Israelite called by that name. <\/p>\n Jehudijah: i.e. Jewess, [Strong’s H3057], 1Ch 4:19 <\/p>\n Jered: 1Ch 1:2 <\/p>\n the father of: 1Ch 4:4, 1Ch 4:39, 1Ch 2:42, Jos 15:58 <\/p>\n Gedor: Gedor was a city in the tribe of Judah; and probably the same which Eusebius calls , and Jerome Gedrus, ten miles from Diospolis, or Lydda, towards Eleutheropolis. <\/p>\n Heber: Gen 46:17 <\/p>\n Socho: i.e. inclosure; his branch, [Strong’s H7755]. 1Ch 4:18, 2Ch 11:7, Shocho, 1Ch 28:18, Also, Jos 15:35, Jos 15:48, 1Sa 17:1, 1Ki 4:10 <\/p>\n Socho1. A city of Judah Jos 15:35, 1Sa 17:1, 1Ki 4:10, 2Ch 11:7, 2. Another city of Judah Jos 15:48 Jekuthiel: i.e. the fear or veneration or preservation of God; God is almightiness, [Strong’s H3354], Jos 15:34 <\/p>\n Bithiah: i.e. worshiper of Jah; daughter of Jah, [Strong’s H1332]. daughter of Pharaoh. 1Ki 3:1, 1Ki 3:6, 1Ki 7:8, 1Ki 9:16, 1Ki 9:24, 2Ch 8:11 <\/p>\n Mered: 1Ch 4:17 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ch 12:7 – Gedor Neh 3:13 – Zanoah<\/p>\n 1Ch 4:18. Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took That is, married. But it is not likely that he married the daughter of the king of Egypt, unless some natural daughter; but rather of some other person called by that name, who might either be an Israelite, or one brought by force out of Egypt by way of spoil. <\/p>\n And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. 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