Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
Sheshan had no sons, but daughters - either he had no sons alive at his death, or his family consisted wholly of daughters, of whom Ahlai, 1 Chronicles 2:31, was one, she being specially mentioned on account of the domestic relation about to be noticed. This view is adopted by Junius and Tremellius. Wall, followed by Lord A. Hervey, think that Ahlai = Attai, 1 Chronicles 2:36, the son of Sheshan's daughter, and grandfather to Zabad. A third conjecture is, that Ahlai was the Hebrew name given to Jarha on his circumcision, signifying 'brother to me' х 'ach (H251) liy (H3807a)], to express his adoption into the family of Israel-an example of a son-in-law reckoned as a son (see further, Lord A. Hervey, Genealogies,' p. 34).