In
the first place, in connection with Jerahmeel, an appendix
(vers. 34-41) is given which is not ethnological but purely
genealogical, and brings a pedigree of fifteen members manifestly
down to near the age of the Chronicler, and which moreover is only
in apparent connection with what precedes it (comp. ver. 34 with
ver. 31), and invariably uses the hiphil form _holid_, a form
which occurs in vers. 25-33 never, and in vers. 42-50 only
sporadically in three places open to the suspicion of later
redaction (comp. especially ver. 47). Much more important,
however, are the additions under Caleb; of these the one is
prefixed (vers. 18-24), the other, more appropriately, brought in
at the close (vers. 50-55, beginning with "and the sons of Hur,
the firstborn of Ephrath," Caleb's second wife, ver. 19). Here
Caleb no longer presents himself in the extreme south of Judah and
the vicinity of Jerahmeel (1Samuel xxv. 3, xxvii. 10, xxx. 14,
29), where he had his settlement prior to the exile, but his
families, which are all of them descended from his son Hur,
inhabit Bethlehem, Kirjath-jearim, Zorah, Esthaol, and other towns
in the north, frequently mentioned in Ezra and Nehemiah.
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