Caleb’s Family

¹⁸ Caleb son of Hezron ·had [fathered] children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth [^Cpossibly two names for the same woman]. Caleb and Azubah’s sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹ When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath. They ·had [^Lgave birth to] a son named Hur, ²⁰ who was the father of Uri, who was the father of Bezalel.

²¹ Later, when Hezron was sixty years old, he married the daughter of Makir, Gilead’s father. Hezron ·had sexual relations with [^Lwent in to] Makir’s daughter, and she ·had [^Lgave birth to] a son named Segub. ²² Segub was the father of Jair. Jair ·controlled [held; owned; ruled] twenty-three cities in the ·country [land; territory] of Gilead. ²³ (But Geshur and Aram ·captured [took] the Towns of Jair, as well as Kenath and the ·small towns [villages] around it—sixty towns in all.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

²⁴ After Hezron died ·in Caleb Ephrathah, his wife Abijah [or Caleb had sexual relations with Ephrath, his father Hezron’s wife, and she] ·had [^Lgave birth to] his son, named Ashhur. Ashhur became the father of Tekoa.