And the sons of his wife Hodiah,.... Another wife of Mered. Hillerus c takes her to be the same with Jehudijah, 1 Chronicles 4:18, though some d take Hodiah to be the name of a man, and read the words, "and the sons of the wife of Hodiah"; which wife of Hodiah was
the sister of Naham; or rather Achotnaham, we render the sister of Naham, is the name of the first son of Hodiah, as some think e:
the father of Keilah the Garmite; prince of the city of Keilah, in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:44 who sprung from the family of Garmi:
and Eshtemoa the Maachathite; the father or prince of the inhabitants of Eshtemoa, another city in the same tribe, see 1 Chronicles 4:17 who sprung from Maachah, see 1 Chronicles 2:48.
c Onomastic. Sacr. p. 836. d Michaelis in loc. e Beckii Not. in Targ. 1 Chron. iv. 19.