The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 33

Azari1Lh. See the import1mt art. "Zalxul,'' place before the eye. To this C11lob un- Smith's 'Bible Dictionary;' and its further mistakable reference is made in twenty- remarks as to the evidence of the genenlogy eight passages, iu sixteen of which he is in the fact of its twenty-fourth and last n11me called "son of Jophunnoh," and in threo tallyin~ well with the time of Hezekiah, of those sixteen "son of Jephunnch the the sixth king after Athaliah (eh. iv. 41). Kenazite." Now, he tells us himself Ye1-s. 42-49.-'l'hese verses are occupied (Josh. xiv. 7) that he was forty years old with the resumption of descendants of Caleb in the second year after the Exodus. But -the Cnleb apparently of vers. !J and 18, it seems (Gen. xlvi. 12, 2ll) that Hezrnn, though, this being so, the last clause in grandson of Judah, and the father of the ver. 49, the daughter of Caleb, Achsa, will Caleb of thi~ chapter, was, however young, require accounting for. This statement one of those who went down into Egypt would lead us to suppose that we were with Jacob, at a date, according to auy assuredly reading of Caleb the son of chronology, which must render it impossible Jephunneh; but it cannot be so. The name for any son of his to have been alive a.ad of Caleb, with the questions gathering only forty years of age at the time of the round it, mll be best considered here. Of Exodus. '1.'his being so, either the state- the nine times in which it occurs in this ment already referred to, found at the close chapter, the mere duplicates (of vcrs. 20, of ver. 49, that "the daughter of Caleb was 46, 48) may be at once counted off. The Achsa," must be an interpolation from some compound "Caleb-epbrata.h" of ver. 24 ignorant transcriber's marginal annotation, has been already dealt with. Nor need or, unlilcely as it is, Caleb the son of Hezron we for the present suppose ver. 50 to have and Caleb the son of J ephunneh both named nny real meaning inconsistent with its a daughter Achsa. It is, moreover, likely apparent meaning, viz. that Caleb is the enough that the frequent describing of name of a grandson (son of Hur) as well Caleb the son of Jephunneh in this style as of the grandfather. There remain the was occasioned by the desire to distinguish occasions of the occurring of the word in him from some other Caleb, not e. con- vers. 9, I 8, 42, 49. I. The first appearance, temporary, indeed, but already weU known then, of the name in this chapter (ver. 9) in a generation preceding but not too exhibits it in a form different from that in remote. Other considerations decidedly which it appears the other times in this concur with this view: e.g. Ram is brother chapter or elsewhere, viz. e.e •~1~~, instead of of Caleb the son of Hezron; he has a grand- son, Ne.bshon,of l!reat distinction," a prince :i?~ (or once as a patronymic, 1 Sam. x.xv. of the children of Judah," whose sister Aaron 3, •.:/,:.). The Volgate follows the Hebrew, married: he was the elect of the Judah but the Septuagint hllB at once substituted tribe to assist Moses and Aaron in the first Caleb. The Syrie.c Version has Salehi, and numbering of the people (Numb. i. 7). the Arabic Se.chli, both of them, no doubt, Great prominence is given to him (Numb. mere transcribers' errord through the mistake vii. 12: x. 14). He was clearly (Matt. i. 4; of a letter. This form" Chelubai" is, then, Luke iii. 32) fifth in descent from Judah, an ;,.,..~ J..eyoµ.,vov, and no different account in perfect agreement with the table of this he.a yet been given of the name appearing chapter. Now, it was this grandson of the thus on this one occasion. It may Le elder brother of Caleb who was contemporary deBCribed, with Lange(' Comm. Old Testa- with Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Similarly, ment,' in loc.), e.s "adjectivus gentilis" to the Beza.lee! of this chapter (ver. 20), a :i1S::, which word, however, occur where it great-grandson of Caleb the Hezronite, is wili is never treated as a synonym with spoken of (Exod. xxxi. I; xxxv. 30) at the Cal;b except by the Septuagint, and then same date exactly e.t which Caleb the son of but once (eh. iv. 11), me.king Lange's furtl,er J ephunLeh says he was still but forty years claim of three forms for the name of Caleb of age I 3. '1.'he identity of the Caleb of wrong. The name might be translated the ver. 50, son of Hur, with Caleb the son of •· Cheluban" or "Chelubite." 2. The Caleb Jephunneh is supposed by some, but is not called here first'' Chelubai," age.in" Caleb the clear. It appe1,rs to be asserted, without ,ion of Hezron." and now" Caleb the brother explanation, in the arts. "Caleb" and of Jerahmeel," some, and Keil among them, "Ephrath ," signed A. C. H., Smith's 'Bible have endeavoured to identify with Caleb the Dictionary,' though in the second part of ij0n of Jephunneh. This latter is a well- the latter article it is alluded to as only known fio-ure in history. He, together with possible. On the other hand, it may rather Joshua, ~as among those who, departing be that Caleb the son of Jepliuooeh, inste11d from E~ypt, were pursued of Phara?h, and of being identical with this Caleb the son of all the host these tw6 alone h ved to of Hur, is so called in order to distingni,h .,11 ter into the promised Jund. 'fhiij is enough him from this latter as 11 contempomry . tu give him distinction and a promiueut A;,;11i11, it has been happily conjecturd 011. n. 1-55.] 'I'll~ Fll!ST llOOK Ob' ·nm CHRONICLES. 23