24. Hezron was dead. There are difficulties in the Hebrew of this verse. The renders the verse as follows: “And after the death of Esron, Caleb came to Ephratha; and the wife of Esron was Abia; and she bore him Ascho the father of Thecoe.” Some scholars think that “Abia” should read “her father,” making the text assert that Caleb approached Ephratah, his father’s wife.