And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

And Caleb the brother of Sua beget Mahir, who was the father of Esthon.

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

Now Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, conceived Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

It has been conjectured from the strangeness of all the names in this list, that we have here a fragment of Canaanite record, connected with the family of the "Shua," whose daughter Judah took to wife 1-Chronicles 2:3; Genesis 38:2, and whose family thus became related to the tribe of Judah.

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir,.... If Shuah is the same with Hushah, 1-Chronicles 4:4, then Chelub was the son of Ezer:
which was the father of Eshton; not the prince of a place called Eshton, as Vatablus; for it is the name of a man, the son of Mehir, and who in the next verse is said to beget sons.

The genealogy of the men of Rechah. - As to their connection with the larger families of Judah, nothing has been handed down to us. Chelub, another form of the name Caleb or Chelubai (see 1-Chronicles 2:9 and 1-Chronicles 2:18), is distinguished from the better known Caleb son of Hezron (1-Chronicles 2:18 and 1-Chronicles 2:42), and from the son of Jephunneh (1-Chronicles 4:15), by the additional clause, "the son of Shuah." Shuah is not met with elsewhere, but is without reason identified with Hushah, 1-Chronicles 4:4, by the older commentators. Mehir the father of Eshton is likewise unknown. Eshton begat the house (the family) of Rapha, of whom also nothing further is said; for they can be connected neither with the Benjamite Rapha (1-Chronicles 8:2) nor with the children of Rapha (1-Chronicles 20:4, 1-Chronicles 20:6, 1-Chronicles 20:8). Paseah and Tehinnah are also unknown, for it is uncertain whether the sons of Paseah mentioned among the Nethinim, Ezra 2:49; Nehemiah 7:51, have any connection with our Paseah. Tehinnah is called "father of the city of Nahash." The latter name is probably not properly the name of a town, but rather the name of a person Nahash, not unlikely the same as the father of Abigail (2-Samuel 17:25), the step-sister of David (cf. 1-Chronicles 2:16). The men (or people) of Rechah are unknown.