The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 55. Scribes, learned in the law. Menochius.—Singing, and so forth The different professions of the Rechabites are here given, instead of proper names, ( Calmet.) which the Vat. Septuagint retains.—Thargathiim and Samathiim, Sochathim.—Hebrew Tirhatim, “porters;” (Chal.) Shimhathim, “the obedient;” Sucathim, “the inhabitants of tents;” Calor, “the heat,” as the Hebrew Chamath (Prot. Hemath) signifies. The Cinites dwelt on the south of Juda, for which reason they are probably here mentioned, though some of them also inhabited Jabes Galaad, while the Rechabites dwelt in tents, ( Bible.) and were perhaps employed as porters in the temple. Calmet. Jeremiah 35:5, 19.