_Mesha_] The Moabite king whose deeds are recorded on the Moabite Stone bore this name. LXX. reads _Mareshah_ (Μαρεισά) as in the latter part of the verse. ⁴⁵And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. ⁴⁶And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. ⁴⁷And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. ⁴⁸Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber and Tirhanah. =45.= _Maon_] Nabal who was a Calebite lived at the town of Maon (1 Samuel xxv. 2, 3). It is improbable that _Maon_ was ever used as the name of a person; compare Buchanan Gray, _Hebrew Proper Names_, pp. 127 f. See note on verse 42. ⁴⁹She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. =49.= _the daughter of Caleb was Achsah_] Compare Judges i. 12. =50‒55.= These verses give the post-exilic settlements of the Calebites in the townships of northern Judea, not far from Jerusalem: see verse 42, note. ⁵⁰These were the sons of Caleb; the son¹ of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim; ⁵¹Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader. ¹ The Septuagint has, _sons_. =50.= _the son of Hur_] Read with the LXX., =the sons of Hur=. Hur was the son of Caleb (verse 19). _the firstborn of Ephrathah_] see note verse 24. ⁵²And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. =52.= _Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth_] The Hebrew is quite obscure, but may perhaps be rendered, =who provided for half the resting-places=, the description applying to Shobal, i.e. his work was to supervise some of the halting stations of the caravans which passed through the territory of Judah. Compare similar details in iv. 21‒23, and the title _Prince of the resting-places_ (margin _quarter-master_) given to Seraiah in Jeremiah li. 59. Almost certainly, however, the text in the present passage is corrupt, and, following iv. 2 and verse 54, we may read =Reaiah and half of the Manahathites=. For the latter see below, verse 54. ⁵³And the families of Kiriath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. =53.= _Zorathites, Eshtaolites_] for Zorah (_modern_ Surah) and Eshtaol (_modern_ Eshua), compare Judges xiii. 25. ⁵⁴The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. =54.= _Manahathites, the Zorites_] The Manahathites of Zorah must be associated with _Manoah_, the father of Samson, according to the tradition of Judges xiii. 2, 25, and an inhabitant of Zorah (see Cooke, _Judges_, pp. 131, 138, in this series).