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1 Chronicles 2:24

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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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This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

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.

This site's exposition

begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth

on 1 Chronicles 2:18-24

Caleb's line through Hezron runs to Hur and then to Uri and Bezaleel, the same three-generation descent Exodus 31:2 gives for the craftsman the LORD filled with skill to raise the tabernacle, so the tribe that produces the king also produces the man who first built the pattern David will later hand to Solomon. Hezron himself fathered a son in old age, Ashur the father of Tekoa, after the text has already recorded his death in Caleb-ephratah, an order the record leaves standing rather than explains.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

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.

A commentator

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,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), because he had a great desire of posterity in the family of Pharez, from whom the Messiah was to descend. Here is mention of one that died without children (

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The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַחַ֥רand after

    veacharH310 →715 times

  • מוֹת־[the] death of

    mot-H4194 →

  • חֶצְר֖וֹןHezron

    chetzronH2696 →18 times

  • בְּכָלֵ֣בin Caleb

    bekhalevH3613 →

  • אֶפְרָ֑תָהEphrathah

    ʾefratahH3613 →

  • וְאֵ֤שֶׁתand [the] wife of

    veeshetH802 →781 times

  • חֶצְרוֹן֙Hezron

    chetzronH2696 →18 times

  • אֲבִיָּ֔הAbijah

    ʾaviyahH29 →25 times

  • וַתֵּ֣לֶדand she bore

    vateledH3205 →496 times

  • ל֔וֹto him

    lo

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַשְׁח֖וּרAshhur

    ʾashchurH806 →

  • אֲבִ֥י[the] father of

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • תְקֽוֹעַ׃Tekoa

    tekoa'H8620 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Chronicles 4:5Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.6 works1 Samuel 30:14We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”2 worksAmos 1:1These 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 of Jehoash was king of Israel.2 works1 Chronicles 2:9The sons who were born to Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.2 works1 Chronicles 2:18–19Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were the sons of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.2 works2 Samuel 14:2So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 2:19When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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…

    it 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.”

    it 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

      Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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