Ashbel] literally “man of Baal.” Compare note on Eshbaal, verse 33.
²Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
2. Nohah ... Huram] the list is assuredly based on Genesis xlvi. 21 and Numbers xxvi. 38–40, despite the surface divergences. Several of the changes are due to textual errors, e.g. Aharah and Ahoah are probably both variants of Ahiram (Genesis xlvi. 21).
³And Bela had sons, Addar[¹], and Gera, and Abihud; ⁴and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah;
[¹] In Genesis xlvi. 21, Ard.
3. Abihud] read perhaps (a slight change in the Hebrew) Gera, father of Ehud.
⁵and Gera, and Shephuphan[¹], and Huram.
[¹] In Numbers xxvi. 39, Shephupham.
5. Shephuphan, and Huram] See vii. 12, note on Shuppim.
6–28. Apparently a list of five post-exilic families [Elpaal (verses 11, 18), Beriah (verses 13, 16), Shema (verses 13, 21), Shashak (verses 14, 25), and Jeroham (verses 14, 27)], whose genealogy seems to be traced from Ehud, and whose descendants reside in Jerusalem (so verse 28, but see note ad loc.). The uncertainty on the former point is the inevitable consequence of the corrupt state of the text in verses 6–14.