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50 These were all descendants of Caleb.

Descendants of Caleb’s Son Hur

The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Caleb’s wife Ephrathah, were Shobal (the founder of Kiriath-jearim),

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So David summoned all Israel, from the Shihor Brook of Egypt in the south all the way to the town of Lebo-hamath in the north, to join in bringing the Ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. Then David and all Israel went to Baalah of Judah (also called Kiriath-jearim) to bring back the Ark of God, which bears the name[a] of the Lord who is enthroned between the cherubim.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:6 Or the Ark of God, where the Name is proclaimed—the name.

Penuel (the father of[a] Gedor), and Ezer (the father of Hushah). These were the descendants of Hur (the firstborn of Ephrathah), the ancestor of Bethlehem.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Or the founder of; also in 4:5, 12, 14, 17, 18, and perhaps other instances where the text reads the father of.

53 and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites, from whom came the people of Zorah and Eshtaol.

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19 After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrathah,[a] and they had a son named Hur. 20 Hur was the father of Uri. Uri was the father of Bezalel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:19 Hebrew Ephrath, a variant spelling of Ephrathah; compare 2:50 and 4:4.

So the men of Kiriath-jearim came to get the Ark of the Lord. They took it to the hillside home of Abinadab and ordained Eleazar, his son, to be in charge of it.

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60 There were also Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah—two towns with their surrounding villages.

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From there the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring at the waters of Nephtoah,[a] and from there to the towns on Mount Ephron. Then it turned toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

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Footnotes

  1. 15:9 Or the spring at Me-nephtoah.

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