1 Chronicles 2:24 BSB

1 Chronicles 2:24

After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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ASV

And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

KJV

And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Caleb-ephratah--so called from uniting the names of husband and wife (1Ch 2:19), and supposed to be the same as was afterwards called Beth-lehem-ephratah. Ashur, the father of Tekoa-- (2Sa 14:2-4). He is called the father, either from his being the first founder, or perhaps the ruler, of the city.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Tekoa - A known place whose father he is called, because he was either the progenitor of the people inhabiting there: or, their prince and ruler: or, the builder of the city.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This Hezron was one of the seventy that went down with Jacob into Egypt, Gen. xlvi. There his family thus increased, as other oppressed families there did. We cannot but suppose that he died during the Israelites' bondage in Egypt; and yet it is here said he died in Caleb-Ephratah (that is, Bethlehem), in the land of Canaan,

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאַחַ֥ר	ve.'a.Char	and after	H310 →
מוֹת־	mot-	[the] death of	H4194 →
חֶצְר֖וֹן	chetz.Ron	Hezron	H2696 →
בְּכָלֵ֣ב	be.kha.Lev	in Caleb	H3613 →
אֶפְרָ֑תָה	'ef.Ra.tah	Ephrathah	H3613 →
וְאֵ֤שֶׁת	ve.'E.shet	and [the] wife of	H802 →
חֶצְרוֹן֙	chetz.rOn	Hezron	H2696 →
אֲבִיָּ֔ה	'a.vi.Yah	Abijah	H29 →
וַתֵּ֣לֶד	va.Te.led	and she bore	H3205 →
ל֔וֹ	lo	to him
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אַשְׁח֖וּר	'ash.Chur	Ashhur	H806 →
אֲבִ֥י	'a.Vi	[the] father of	H1 →
תְקֽוֹעַ׃	te.Ko.a'	Tekoa	H8620 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Amos 1:1
These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son…
leads to
- Zechariah 14:5
  You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my…
- 2 Chronicles 26:1–23
  All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- Amos 7:14
  “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
Through
1 Samuel 30:14
We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
leads to
- 1 Kings 1:44
  And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
- 1 Kings 1:38
  Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
- 2 Samuel 8:18
  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
- Ezekiel 25:16
  therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- Zephaniah 2:5

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Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PlaceJudean hill countryTekoaJudean town on the wilderness edge south of Bethlehem; home of Amos the herdman (Amos 1:1) and the wise woman of 2 Samuel 14.

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