21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. 22 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 23 But Geshur and Aram took from them rHavvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, ssixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead. 24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah,1 the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
22 Is there no ebalm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
1 1 Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of ftears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 2 Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all gadulterers,
a company of treacherous men.
3 They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong3 in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
1 The words of Amos, awho was among the shepherds1 of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of bUzziah king of Judah and in the days of cJeroboam the son of dJoash, king of Israel, two years2 before the eearthquake.
