King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 2:20 Mean?
“And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.”
Context
18
And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
19
And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
20
And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
21
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. married: Heb. took
22
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(20) **Hur begat Uri . . . Bezaleel.**—See Exodus 31:2, which states that: “ Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,” was divinely qualified for building the Tent of Meeting. Bezaleel is no doubt a person, but Hur is probably a Calebite clan, established at “Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem” (Genesis 35:19).
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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