Ancestry
On the maternal side, however, he was a descendant of the tribe of Judah; for his mother, whose name was Zelelponit (B. B. 91a) or Hazelelponit (Numbers Rabba x. 13), was a member of that clan (comp. I Chronicles iv. 3).
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