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1 Chronicles 2:20 Explained in Context
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Verse 20. 20And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Caleb, Hur, Bezalel, and Gilead connect households and places.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 2:18–24
Read 1 Chronicles 2:20 with 2:18–24. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: Caleb's wives and children, Hur and Bezalel, Hezron's late marriage, Jair's towns, and Abiah's posthumous child are woven together.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 2:20 depends on 2:18–24; isolating “And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Caleb, Hur, Bezalel, and Gilead connect households and places.”
Read 1 Chronicles 2:18–24 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 2:18–24 forms the complete movement “Caleb, Hur, Bezalel, and Gilead connect households and places”: Caleb's wives and children, Hur and Bezalel, Hezron's late marriage, Jair's towns, and Abiah's posthumous child are woven together.
Verse 18. 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.
Verse 19. 19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
Verse 20. 20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
Verse 21. 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.
Verse 22. 22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
Verse 23. 23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
Verse 24. 24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
Continue in Context
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Read 1 Chronicles 2:18–24 — Caleb, Hur, Bezalel, and Gilead connect households and placesSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 2:18–24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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