And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
He was at Chezib when she bare him. Er and Onan having died without offspring, no further notice is taken of them. But Shelah lived to have a family, and therefore his birthplace is recorded as at Chezib, or Achzib, in the southern lowlands of Judah (Joshua 15:44; Micah 1:14).