21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took (as wife) when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
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And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of (f) Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
(f) Who was prince of mount Gilead, (Numbers 32:40).
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead,.... Which Machir was the son of Manasseh, and Gilead was his grandson, Numbers 26:29 the Targum is,"but he enticed a virgin, the daughter of Machir;''which suggests, that he committed fornication with her, though he afterwards married her; her name is not mentioned; to me it seems to be Abiah, 1-Chronicles 2:24 and whom the Targum there calls the daughter of Machir:
whom he married when he was sixty years old; the Targum is sixty six; this seems to be his last wife:
and she bare him Segub; the same name with the youngest son of Hiel, who rebuilt Jericho, 1-Kings 16:34.
Hezron . . . daughter of Machir the father of Gilead--that is, chief of that town, which with the lands adjacent was no doubt the property of Machir, who was so desirous of a male heir. He was grandson of Joseph. The wife of Machir was of the tribe of Manasseh (Numbers 26:29).
Gilead - Of a man so called: a man of noted valour, and the great champion in those parts.
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