‏ 1 Chronicles 4

CHAPTER 4

The Genealogy of Judah

1The sons of Judah -- Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi and Hur, Shobal, 2and Reaiah son of Shobal procreated   Jahath; and Jahath procreated   Ahumai, and   Lahad. These are  the genealogies   of Zorathites. 3And these were  the sons of Etam -- Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister -- Hazelelponi. 4And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Husha. These are  the sons of Hur   first-born of Ephratah father of Beth-lehem. 5And to  Ashur father of Tekoe were two wives -- Helah and Naarah. 6And [²bore ³to him ¹Naarah]   Ahuzam, and   Hepher, and   Temeni, and   Haahashtari. All these were sons of Naarah. 7And the sons of Helah -- Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. 8And Cos engendered   Anub, and   Zobedah, they are  the families of the brother of Aharhel, the son of Harum. 9And Jabez was honorable above   his brothers. And his  mother called   his name Jabez, saying, For I gave birth in a downfall. 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, If by blessing you should bless me, and multiply   my borders, and [³might be ²hand ¹your]   with me, and you would execute knowledge   to not abase me. And God brought all as much as he asked for. 11And Chelub   brother of Shuah engendered   Mehir, this one was father of Eshton. 12And Eshton engendered   Beth-rapha and   Paseah, and   Tehinnah father of Ir-nahash. These were  the men of Rechah. 13And the sons of Kenez -- Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel -- Hathath. 14And Meonothai engendered   Ophrah. And Seraiah engendered   Joab father of Ge Charashim, for they were fabricators. 15And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh- Iru, Elah, and Naan. And the sons of Elah -- Kenaz. 16And the sons of Jehaleleel -- Ziph, and Ziphah, and Tirah, and Asareel. 17And the sons of Ezra -- Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And Jether engendered   Miriam, and Shammai, and   Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 18And   his wife Jehudijah bore to him   Jered father of Gedor, and   Heber father of Socho, and   Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. And these are  the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. 19And the sons of his wife -- Hodiah the sister of Naham, father of Keila the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. 20And the sons of Shimon -- Amnon, and Rinnah, the son of Hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi -- Zoheth, the sons of Zoheth. 21The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the generations of the families of Ephradabak to the house of Ashbea, 22and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph; the ones who exercised authority in Moab. And they returned to Lehem. And the words [²old ¹are]. 23These are  the potters, the ones dwelling in Netaim and Gadera with the king in   his works. They grew in strength and dwelt there. 24The sons of Simeon -- Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul, 25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son, 26The sons of Mishma -- Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. 27And to  Shimei [²sons ¹there were sixteen], and [²daughters ¹six]; and to  his brethren there were not [²sons ¹many]. And among all   their families they multiplied not as the sons of Judah. 28And they dwelt in Beer-sheba and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 29and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad, 30and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag, 31and in Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susim, and in Beth-birei, and in Shaaraim. These were    their cities until the reign  of king David. 32And their properties were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan -- [²cities ¹five]. 33And all   their properties   round about   these cities unto Baal. This is    their possession, and   their distribution. 34And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, 35and Joel, and Jehu son of Josibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, 36and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 37and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah -- 38these are  the ones going by names of the rulers in   their generations; and in the houses of their families they were multiplied into a multitude. 39And they went   to coming into to Gerara, unto according to east of the valley,   to seek pasture   for their flocks. 40And they found [⁴pasture ¹fertile ²and ³good], and the land broadly spaced before them, and in peace and rest; for [⁵were of ⁶the ⁷sons ⁸of Ham ¹the ones ²dwelling ³there ⁴before]. 41And [⁵came ¹these   ²written ³by ⁴name] in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. And they struck   their tents, and the Minaians, the ones being found there, and they devoted them to consumption until   this day. And they lived there instead of them, for pasture   for their animals was there. 42And some of them of the sons of Simeon went forth unto   mount Seir -- [²men ¹five hundred], and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, their rulers. 43And they struck the vestige   surviving   of Amalek, and they dwelt there until   this day.