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1 Chronicles 2:22-24
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Chronicles 2:22-24
Evangelical Heritage Version
22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities[a] in the land of Gilead. 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, along with Kenath and its villages,[b] sixty cities in all. All these were the sons of Makir, the father of Gilead.
24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, gave birth to Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.[c]
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- 1 Chronicles 2:22 The Hebrew word ‘ir, usually translated cities, includes settlements smaller than what would typically be called cities today.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 Literally its daughters
- 1 Chronicles 2:24 This difficult text has also been translated: After Hezron’s death, Caleb had sexual relations with Ephrath, his father Hezron’s wife (v 19), and she bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa, but this translation requires some emendation of the text.
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