The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem That is, the inhabitants of Beth-lehem: and so of Ataroth, and the house of Joab, or, as it should rather be rendered, Beth-joab, for the writer is not speaking of a family, but of a place. The people of those towns, and the Manahethites, and the Zorites, were all the descendants of this Salma, the son of Caleb. So that, it appears, he had a very numerous posterity.
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1 Chronicles 2:54
54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth,k the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.