And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
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Gill's Exposition
And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. Including his posterity, see Gen 46:23, the posterity of the other three sons of Zerah are not mentioned, either because the writer could not find the genealogy of…
Barnes' Notes
The sons of Zerah - Here, for the first time, the writer of Chronicles draws from sources not otherwise known to us, recording facts not mentioned in the earlier Scriptures. Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and…
Adam Clarke
Five of them in all - "These were all chief men; and on them the spirit of prophecy rested." - T.
Here is, I. The family of Jacob. His twelve sons are here named, that illustrious number so often celebrated almost throughout the whole Bible, from the first to the last book of it. At every turn we…
Cambridge Bible
the sons of Zerah This genealogy appears only in Chron.
Zimri LXX (B) Ζαμβρεί (β being merely euphonic) here and also Jos 7:1 where Heb. has "Zabdi." LXX. is probably right in identifying the two.…