1 Chron-04
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v1
The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
v2
Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
v3
These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,
v4
and Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
v5
Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah;
v6
Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
v7
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
v8
Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum.
v9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
v10
Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
v11
Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton.
v12
Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
v13
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.
v14
Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.
v15
The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.
v16
The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
v17
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
v18
And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
v19
The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
v20
The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
v21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;
v22
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).
v23
These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king’s service.Descendants of Simeon
v24
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
v25
Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
v26
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
v27
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.
v28
They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
v29
Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
v30
Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
v31
Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned.
v32
And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
v33
along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.
v34
Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
v35
Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,
v36
Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
v37
Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah—
v38
these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
v39
They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,
v40
where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.
v41
These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
v42
And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
v43
And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.