The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
One reason, no doubt, why Ezra is here most particular in the register of the tribe of Judah is because it was that tribe which, with its appendages, Simeon, Benjamin, and Levi, made up the kingdom of Judah, which not only long survived the other tribes in Canaan, but in process of time, now when this was written, returned out of captivity, when the generality...
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 4:1-10
The sons of Judah: Pharez,.... The posterity of Judah in the line of Pharez, for he only is mentioned: Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. Hezron was the son of Pharez, and Carmi is supposed to be Chelubai, or Caleb, the son of Hezron; and Hur the son of Caleb; and Shobal was the son of the second Caleb the son of Hur; see Ch1 2:5.
The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. (a) Meaning, they came from Judah, as nephews and kinsmen: for only Pharez was his natural son.