- Bible
- 1 Chronicles
- Chapter 4
- Verse 11
1 Chronicles 4:11
And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
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Gill's Exposition
And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir,.... If Shuah is the same with Hushah, Ch1 4:4, then Chelub was the son of Ezer:
which was the father of Eshton; not the prince of a place called Eshton,…
It has been conjectured from the strangeness of all the names in this list, that we have here a fragment of Canaanite record, connected with the family of the “Shua,” whose daughter Judah took to wife…
We may observe in these verses, 1. That here is a whole family of craftsmen, handicraft tradesmen, that applied themselves to all sorts of manufactures, in which they were ingenious and industrious…