1 Chronicles

2 These are the sons of Israel,—Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

3 The sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, the three born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess,—but Er the firstborn of Judah became wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, and he slew him.

4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

5 The sons of Perez, Hezron and Hamul.

6 And the sons of Zerah, Zimri and Ethan, and Heman and Calcol and Dara, all of them five.

7 And, the sons of Carmi, Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in a thing devoted.

8 And the sons of Ethan, Azariah.

9 And the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Calubai.

10 And Ram begat Amminadab,—and Amminadab begat Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah.

11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz;

12 and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;

13 and Jesse begat—his firstborn Eliab,—and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third;

14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth;

15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.

16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail,—and the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai and Joab and Asahel, three.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa,—and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

18 And Caleb son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth,—and these were her sons, Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.

19 And Azubah died,—and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, and she bare to him Hur.

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel.

21 And afterward Hezron went in unto the daughter of Machir, father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old,—and she bare him Segub.

22 And Segub begat Jair,—who came to have twenty-three cities, in the land of Gilead;

23 but Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the villages thereof, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, father of Gilead.

24 And after the death of Hezron, Caleb entered Ephrathah,—and the wife of Hezron was Abiah who bare him Ashur, father of Tekoa.

25 And the sons of Jerahmeel firstborn of Hezron were the firstborn Ram,—and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem [of] Ahijah.

26 And Jerahmeel had another wife whose name was Atarah,—the same was the mother of Onam.

27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel were,—Maaz and Jamin, and Eker.

28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada,—and the sons of Shammai, Nadab and Abishur.

29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail,—and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

30 And the sons of Nadab, Seled and Appaim,—but Seled died without sons.

31 And the sons of Appaim, Ishi, and the sons of Ishi, Sheshan, and the sons of Sheshan, Ahlai.

32 And the sons of Jada, brother of Shammai, Jether, and Jonathan,—but Jether died without sons.

33 And the sons of Jonathan, Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters,—and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha;

35 so Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife,—and she bare him Attai.

36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad;

37 and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed;

38 and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah;

39 and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah;

40 and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum;

41 and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

42 Now the sons of Caleb, brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, the same was the father of Ziph,—and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

43 And the sons of Hebron, Korah and Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema.

44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam,—and Rekem begat Shammai.

45 And the son of Shammai was Maon,—and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

46 And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, bare Haran and Moza and Gazez,—and Haran begat Gazez.

47 And the sons of Jahdai, Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet, and Ephah and Shaaph.

48 A concubine of Caleb, Maacah, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah;

49 she also bare Shaaph, father of Madmannah, Sheva, father of Machbena, and father of Gibea,—and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

50 These were the sons of Caleb, sons of Hur, firstborn of Ephrathah,—Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim;

51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

52 And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons,—Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

53 And the families of Kiriath-jearim were the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites,—from these came the Zorathites, and the Eshtaolites.

54 The sons of Salma were Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-joab,—and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites;

55 and the families of scribes who dwelt at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. The same are the Kenites who came in from Hammath, father of the house of Rechab.