And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
And to Ashhur father of Tekoa were two wives, Helah and Naarah;
— And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
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And Ashur the father of Tekoa,.... A son of Hezron by Abiah, 1Ch 2:24. had two wives, Helah and Naarah; as Lamech had, polygamy not being reckoned unlawful in those times.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches2
After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
The walk5
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
1 Chronicles 2:24After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
leads to
We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
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…
The sons who were born to Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.
Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were the sons of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
So 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…
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