1 Chronicles 2:54 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Ataroth, the house of Joab - Rather, “Ataroth-beth-Joab,” probably so called, to distinguish it from Ataroth-Adar, a city of Benjamin Joshua 18:13. It is uncertain from what Joab it derived its distinctive appellation.

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.