=35.= _Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha_] This was equivalent to making his servant his heir. Thus Abraham at first (Genesis xv. 2, 3) regarded Eliezer his steward as his heir. The list of thirteen descendants of Jarha ending with Elishama (verse 41) is perhaps a proper genealogy: at least the names may be those of individuals, although it is impossible to say why this pedigree of Elishama should have been so carefully preserved (so Curtis). On the other hand Cook (see previous note) regards _Jarha_ as perhaps an eponym of _Jerahmeel_, and, connecting _Sheshan_ with the Hebronite _Sheshai_, thinks the genealogy may signify a northward movement of Jerahmeel from Muṣri to the district of Hebron. =42‒49= (compare verses 18‒24). THE DESCENDANTS OF CALEB. ⁴²And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. ⁴³And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. ⁴⁴And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begat Shammai. =42.= _Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel_] Called _Chelubai_ (verse 9) and _Caleb the son of Hezron_ (verse 18). As eponym of the tribe Caleb is described as “son” of Hezron “son” of Judah, and of course is not to be distinguished from the Caleb son of Jephunneh who is classed as a Kenizzite in various passages (iv. 15; Numbers xiii. 6; Joshua xiv. 6). Important features of the fortunes of the Caleb clan can be discerned from the lists in this chapter, verses 18‒24, 42‒50. It appears that at first their seats were in the southern parts of Judah――witness verses 42‒49, in which several of the names, viz. Ziph (Joshua xv. 24 or 25), Mareshah (2 Chronicles xi. 8), Hebron, Tappuah (Joshua xv. 34), Maon (Joshua xv. 55), and Beth-zur (Joshua xv. 58) are names of towns in the south or south-west of Judah. From these, their pre-exilic homes, they were driven northwards, and during the exilic period and afterwards they occupied many of the townships not far from Jerusalem, e.g. Bethlehem (see verses 50‒55). Apart from the names in verses 50‒55, we have a testimony to this northward movement in verse 24 (where see note), and probably also in verse 18, where the names _Jerioth_ (_tents_) and _Azubah_ (_forsaken_) hint at the abandonment first of nomadic life and then of the south Judean settlements. This movement was largely no doubt compulsory, under pressure from the Edomites to the south (compare above i. 43, note) who in their turn were being forced north by a strong and fairly constant encroachment of Arab tribes (see Wellhausen, _De Gentibus_, and more recently Hölscher, _Palästina_, pp. 22, 30, on the importance of such evidence as this notice in Chronicles for determining the composition and conditions of Palestine in the post-exilic period).