The Calebite Genealogies of Chelub Eshton and the Sons of Recah

1 Chronicles 4:11-12 preserves a small but striking corner of the Calebite genealogy: "And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton. And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah." The genealogical compression — names yielding names, men yielding cities — is the Chronicler's characteristic way of preserving the family-and-settlement memory of post-exile communities tracing their ancestry back to the Calebite branch of Judah.

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