And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient records.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
He, that made viz., Joazim, the meaning of whose name in Hebrew, is, he that made the sun to stand. In like manner the following names, Lying, (Cozeba) Secure, (Joash) and Burning, (Saraph) are substituted in place of the Hebrew names of the same signification. (Challoner)
The first etymology is not perfectly accurate, as Jokim means simply, "he made to stand "Jachin, the pillar which Solomon erected, has the same import. (Haydock)
Some injudicious person seems to have placed the sun in the margin, whence it has crept into the text. (Tirinus)
It might be occasioned by the fable of the Rabbins, who assert (Haydock) that Elimelech wrought the like miracle as Josue, to convince the people of Bethlehem of the necessity of being converted; but, finding them incorrigible, denounced a famine, which forced him to retire with his family into the country of Moab. (St. Jerome, Trad.)
Elimelech died in that country; but these four descendants of Sela retired, probably, along with him, and retu...
He that made: That is, Joazim, the meaning of whose name in Hebrew is, he that made the sun to stand. In like manner the following names, Lying (Chozeba), Secure (Joas), and Burning (Saraph), are substituted in place of the Hebrew names of the same signification.
