1 Chronicles 2
NLT
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New Living Translation

1 Chronicles 2:9-25

9The sons of Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.

10Ram was the father of Amminadab. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of Judah.

11Nahshon was the father of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz.

12Boaz was the father of Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse.

13Jesse’s first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea,

14his fourth was Nethanel, his fifth was Raddai,

15his sixth was Ozem, and his seventh was David.

16Their sisters were named Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah had three sons named Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

17Abigail married a man named Jether, an Ishmaelite, and they had a son named Amasa.

18Hezron’s son Caleb had sons from his wife Azubah and from Jerioth. Her sons were named Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

19After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrathah, and they had a son named Hur.

20Hur was the father of Uri. Uri was the father of Bezalel.

21When Hezron was sixty years old, he married Gilead’s sister, the daughter of Makir. They had a son named Segub.

22Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

23(But Geshur and Aram captured the Towns of Jair and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

24Soon after Hezron died in the town of Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah gave birth to a son named Ashhur (the father of Tekoa).

25The sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram (the firstborn), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

Read all of 1 Chronicles 2

Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2

New Living Translation — © 1996, 2004, 2015 Tyndale House Foundation