John Gill Commentary 1 Chronicles 4

The sons of Judah: Pharez
The posterity of Judah in the line of Pharez, for he only is mentioned:

Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal .
Hezron was the son of Pharez, and Carmi is supposed to be Chelubai, or Caleb, the son of Hezron; and Hur the son of Caleb; and Shobal was the son of the second Caleb the son of Hur; see (1 Chronicles 2:5 1 Chronicles 2:9 1 Chronicles 2:19 1 Chronicles 2:50) .

And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath
Reaiah is the same as Haroeh, (1 Chronicles 2:52) the names are of the same meaning:

and Jahath begot Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the
Zorathites
who inhabited Zoreah, as the Targum, at least part of it; see (1 Chronicles 2:53 1 Chronicles 2:54) .

And these were of the father of Etam
Or of the prince of Etam: or, as the Targum, these are princes that dwelt in Etam, a place not far from Zorah, (Judges 15:8) and is mentioned with Bethlehem and Tekoa in the tribe of Judah, (2 Chronicles 11:6) , namely, which follow:

Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash ;
these were the sons of the governor of Etam:

and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi ;
who, perhaps, was a person of great note in those days, though now unknown; indeed, a Jewish chronologer ^F23 tells us, that the mother of Samson was Hazalelponith, of the tribe of Judah.

FOOTNOTES:

• F23: Juchasin, fol. 10. 2.

And Penuel the father of Gedor
The prince of that place, according to some, and the same with Hareph, (1 Chronicles 2:51).

and Ezer the father of Hushah :
thought to be the same with Shuah, (1 Chronicles 4:11).

these are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah :
Caleb's wife, (1 Chronicles 2:19) the Targum adds, the same with Miriam; and so other Jewish writers ^F24 say, Miriam had two names, and one was Ephratah; though Josephus makes ^F25 Hur to be her husband, and not her son, as here:

who was the father of Bethlehem ;
of the inhabitants of that city, at least part of them, or prince of that place, as his grandson Salma also was, (1 Chronicles 2:51).

FOOTNOTES:

• F24: Shemot Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 90. 4. Yalkut in 1 Chron. ii. 19.
• F25: Antiqu. l. 3. c. 2.

And Ashur the father of Tekoa
A son of Hezron by Abiah, (1 Chronicles 2:24)

had two wives, Helah and Naarah ;
as Lamech had, polygamy not being reckoned unlawful in those times.