¹⁸ Caleb, Hezron’s son, had children with his wife Azubah, and with Jerioth. These were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹ After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who gave birth to Hur for him. ²⁰ Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bezalel. ²¹ Later, Hezron had sexual relations with the daughter of Machir, Gilead’s father, whom he married when he was 60 years old, and she gave birth to Segub for him. ²² Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead, ²³ but Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, as well as Kenath and its villages, sixty towns.

All these were descendants of Machir, Gilead’s father. ²⁴ After Hezron’s death, Caleb went to Ephrath.^[a] Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur, Tekoa’s father.