And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

And of the sons of Zerah,.... Another son of Judah:
Jeuel, and their brethren; six hundred and ninety; or their kinsmen; for this number includes all of the posterity of Pharez, Shelah and Zerah mentioned.

"Of the sons of Zerah, Jeuel;" also the name of various persons; cf. 1-Chronicles 5:7; 2-Chronicles 26:11 : the register in Nehemiah 11 notices no descendants of Zerah. "And their brethren, 690 (men)." The plural suffix in אחיהם cannot be referred, as Bertheau thinks, to Jeuel, for that name, as being that of the head of a father's-house, cannot be a collective. The suffix most consequently refer to the three heads mentioned in 1-Chronicles 9:4-6, Uthai, Asaiah, and Jeuel, whose brethren are the other heads of fathers'-houses of the three families descended from Judah; cf. 1-Chronicles 9:9, where the number of the אחים mentioned refers to all the heads who had formerly been spoken of.