1 Chronicles 2:24

And after that Hezron was dead ... — Or, “And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephratah — and the wife of Hezron was Abiah — and she bare him Ashur...” The text is evidently corrupt. The best suggestion is based on the reading of the LXX.: καὶ μετὰ τὸ�; “And after Hezron’s death Caleb went to Ephrath.” Some very slight changes in the Hebrew, affecting only three letters of the entire sentence, will give the sense, “And after Hezron’s death Caleb went in to Ephrath, the wife of his father Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:19); and she bare him Ash-hur, father (founder, or chief) of Tekoa.” (Comp. Genesis 35:22.)

Ashur (Heb., Ash-hur) means “man of Hur” — that is, the chief of the clan of the Hurites, settled at Ephrath or Bethlehem (1 Chronicles 2:19). Comp. Ashbel “man of Bel.” (Ash is the elder form of Ish “man”; as appears from the Phenician inscriptions.)

That “Caleb” in this verse means the house of Caleb is evident if we consider that the genealogy makes him great grandson of Judah, whereas the individual Caleb son of Jephunneh took part in the conquest of Canaan, more than four centuries after Judah went down to Egypt.

III. — The Jerahmeelites (1 Chronicles 2:25). Comp. 1 Samuel 27:10, “the south (land) of the Jerahmeelites,” in the territory of Judah.