1 Chronicles

4 The sons of Judah, Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

2 And Reaiah son of Shobal begat Jahath, and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

3 And these were the sons of Etam, Jezreel and Ishma, and Idbash,—and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

4 and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

5 And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives,—Helah, and Naarah.

6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzzam and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.

8 And Koz begat Anub, and Zobebah,—and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

9 Now it came to pass that Jabez was more honourable than his brethren,—but his mother had called his name Jabez, [“he causes pain”] saying, Because I bare him with pain.

10 So then Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst indeed bless me, and enlarge my boundary, And that thy hand might be with me,—And that thou wouldst work [to deliver me] from evil, That it be not my pain. And God brought about that which he asked.

11 And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begat Mehir, the same was the father of Eshton.

12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

13 And the sons of Kenaz were Othniel, and Seraiah,—and the sons of Othniel, Hathath.

14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah,—and Seraiah begat Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.

15 And the sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah, and Naam,—and the sons of Elah and Kenaz.

16 And the sons of Jehallelel, Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

17 And the sons of Ezrah, Jether and Mered, and Epher and Jalon. And these are the sons of Bithia, daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took,—and she conceived and bare Miriam and Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

18 And his wife the Jewess bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite,—and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

20 And the sons of Shimon, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

21 The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah,—and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph who ruled for Moab, and Jashubi-lehem,—but the records are ancient.

23 They were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim, and Gederah,—with the king in his work dwelt they there.

24 The sons of Simeon, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul:

25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

26 And the sons of Mishma, Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

27 And Shimei had sixteen sons, and six daughters, but his brethren had not many children,—nor did any of their family multiply so much as the sons of Judah.

28 And they dwelt in Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual;

29 and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad;

30 and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag;

31 and in Beth-marcaboth, and in Hazar-susim, and in Beth-biri, and in Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

32 And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,—five cities;

33 and all their villages that were round about these cities as far as Baal. These were their habitations, and they had their own genealogical register.

34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah;

35 and Joel,—and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel:

36 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah:

37 and Ziza, son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.

38 These introduced by their names were leading men in their families. And their ancestral house brake forth exceedingly;

39 so they went to the entering in of Gerar, unto the east of the valley,—to seek pasture for their flocks;

40 and they found pasture, fat and good, and the land was broad on both hands, and quiet, and secure,—for of Ham were the dwellers there aforetime.

41 But these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and devoted them until this day, and dwelt in their stead,—for there was pasture for their flocks there.

42 And some of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, five hundred men,—with Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head;

43 and they smote the remainder that had escaped of the Amalekites,—and dwelt there—[as they have] unto this day.