These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 59. Thelmela, “the height of Mela, or of salt.” The river Melas empties itself into the Euphrates. Strabo xii.—The cities here mentioned were in Chaldea. Some of the ten tribes had probably been transported into Cappadocia, where Herodotus (ii. 35,) place some circumcised Syrians.—Thelharsa, or Thelassar, 4 Kennicott. 19:12.—Cherub, and so forth were cities of Chaldea, ( Tirinus.) or chief men; but as they had been carried away by Theglathphalassar, they had lost their genealogies, and could only produce circumcision as a proof that they were Israelites.
or, seed