Thoughts About Hur
Hello! I wanted to run some thoughts about Hur past you guys for your feedback!
Last time I read Exodus, I thought “who is this Hur hanging out with Aaron?” as written about in Ex. 17:10,12 and 24:14.
Then, this time, when I hit the section about B’tzal’el who made the tent of meeting and noted he was “son of Uri, son of Hur” I thought “Oh!! Is that the same Hur?”
So I looked in 1st Chronicles, the second chapter, and I seem to get this chain:
Y’hudah had Peretz (by Tamar), who was father of Hetzron, who was father of K’luvai/Kalev, who was father of Hur, who was father of Uri, who was father of B’tzal’el.
By looking back at Genesis, I see that Y’hudah, Peretz and Hetzron all came to Egypt with Jacob.
So, what do you guys think? Is it reasonable to connect all of these instances of Hur together? Or is it a reach and do you think some of these are different dudes?
If they ARE all the same and connected, I think it is so cool! Presumably Hetzron would have been a very small child when he came to Egypt. Then probably during his life and at least the early life of his son, Kalev, they would have been rich, powerful and prosperous in Goshen. But then, assuming Hur would probably be about the same age as Aaron, by Hur’s birth, the people are already deep into slavery, even to the point of having the baby boys regularly being killed.
It changes how I think about things — I used to imagine Jacob and then some misty amount of time passes and we get to Moses. But really, it was in the space of grandfather to grandson that massive privilege and wealth turned into slavery and the death of baby boys. That isn’t very long!
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February 9, 2019 at 5:35 pm /
Dear Susan,
These are wonderful insights! Thank you for the work that you have done in researching these names and family lines. I look forward to digging into this further myself. You have brought to light some interesting connections.
February 9, 2019 at 4:03 pm /
More thoughts on Hur!
I went back to Exodus 6:16 and onward and started to graph out the Levi genealogy, so I could get another picture of how the generations worked in the sequence of enter Egypt / live in Egypt / exit Egypt. Well, I was so joyful when I got to vs. 23 about Aharon’s wife, Elisheva. I had been bothered before when I was reading it, since it lists her father and brother like I should know them, only I didn’t and I checked the names around the section, being the name of the Levi family, and I couldn’t find her. So I gave up.
But this time, it clicked since I had just traced out the line of Y’hudah! Elisheva is the daughter of Amminadav, the son of Ram, who is brother to Kalev and son of Hetzron. This means that Amminadav, her father, is 1st cousins with Hur, son of Kalev! I think it lends credibility to the idea that Hur, Aharon’s buddy, is the same Hur son of Kalev, since Aharon’s wife is his close relation. It isn’t too surprising that they know each other. It also makes sense with ages and generations — Hur was probably relatively the same age as Aharon, since they were both the second generation born in Egypt.
For those who also study the New Testament, I think there is a interesting shadow picture / foreshadowing here. In the marriage of Aharon, we had (obviously) the line of Aharon intricately twined into the family of Y’hudah, but more specifically, the exact line that eventually leads to King David, through a woman named Elisheva. Then, in the New Testament, we have Miryam, mother to Yeshua, who is a direct descendant from this exact same Y’hudah line through King David. Her relative / cousin who she visits is another woman name Elisheva, who is listed as being from the line of Aharon and married to a cohen, who is also obviously from the line of Aharon. Cool!
I think it is incredible the sort of things that came come to light when we dig into the “drier” parts of the Scripture! It is ALL so precious and none of it is boring!!
February 11, 2019 at 12:51 pm /
wow thanks for this extra explanation. Awesome that you guys go into the nitty gritty ..
Thanks and blessings!!
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