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Text -- 1 Chronicles 2:18-24 (NET)
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Caleb’s Descendants
2:18 Caleb son of Hezron fathered sons by his wife Azubah (also known as Jerioth ). Her sons were Jesher , Shobab , and Ardon .
2:19 When Azubah died , Caleb married Ephrath , who bore him Hur .
2:20 Hur was the father of Uri , and Uri was the father of Bezalel .
2:21 Later Hezron had sexual relations with the daughter of Makir , the father of Gilead . (He had married her when he was sixty years old.) She bore him Segub .
2:22 Segub was the father of Jair , who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead .
2:23 (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair , along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns .) All these were descendants of Makir , the father of Gilead .
2:24 After Hezron’s death , Caleb had sexual relations with Ephrath , his father Hezron’s widow , and she bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Genealogy |
AARON |
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
MAON; MAONITES |
GENEALOGY, 8 part 2 |
GENEALOGY, 8 part 1 |
Jacob |
Azubah |
Polygamy |
Segub |
Jair |
Ardon |
Shobab |
Jesher |
GENEALOGY, 1-7 |
Hezron |
MANASSEH (2) |
Uri |
Jerioth |
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NET Notes: 1Ch 2:18 Heb “and Caleb son of Hezron fathered [children] with Azubah, a wife, and with Jerioth.” Jerioth could be viewed as a second wife (so NLT;...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 2:23 Or “Havvoth Jair” (NIV, NRSV). Some translations do not translate the phrase (“havvoth” = “the towns of”), but tre...
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