1 Chronicles 4

MSTC^{(i) 1} The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal. ² And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath. And Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad which are the kindreds of the Zorathites. ³ And of these came the father of Etam, Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash, with their sister called Hazzelelponi. ⁴ And Penuel, father of Gedeor; And Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the eldest son of Ephrathah father to Bethlehem. ⁵ And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives: Helah and Naarah. ⁶ And Naarah bare him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni and Haahastari. 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 kindreds of Aharhel the son of Harum. ⁹ And Jabez was nobler than his brethren. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bare him with sorrow." ¹⁰ But Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "If thou shalt bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and shalt let thine hand be with me, and wilt keep me from evil that it vex me not." And God sent him his desire. ¹¹ Chelub the brother of Shuhah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton. ¹² And Eshton begat Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the father of the city of Nahash — which are the men of Rechah. ¹³ The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath. ¹⁴ And Meonothai begat Ophrah. And Seraiah begat Joab the father of them of the valley of craftsmen, so-called because they were craftsmen. ¹⁵ And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah and Naam. And the son of Elah was Kenaz. ¹⁶ And the sons of Jehallelel were Ziph and Ziphah, and Tirih and Asarel. ¹⁷ And the sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, Jalon, Thahar, Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Estemoa. ¹⁸ And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these were the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh which Mered took. ¹⁹ The sons of the wife of Hodiah the sister of Naham the father of Keilah were Hagarmi and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. ²⁰ The sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Benzoheth. ²¹ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the kindreds of the households of them that wrought bysse in the house of Ashbea. ²² And Jokim and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, which were inhabited in Moab, but returned to Lehem and to Debarim-Aikim. ²³ These were potters and dwelt among trees and hedges and were in the king's work and dwelt even there. ²⁴ The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah and Shaul, ²⁵ whose son was Shallum, and the son of him was Mibsam, and his son was Mishma. ²⁶ And the son of Mishma was Hammuel, and his son was Zaccur, and the son of him was Shimei. ²⁷ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. But his brethren had not many children, neither were the kindreds of them like to the children of Judah in multitude. ²⁸ And they dwelt at Beersheba, Moladah and at Hazarshual, ²⁹ at Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰ Bethuel, Hormah and at Ziklag; ³¹ at Bethmarcaboth, Hazarsusim, Bethbiri, and Shaarim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. ³² And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five towns, ³³ and all their villages that were round about the said cities unto Baalathbeer. This is the habitation of them and their genealogy. ³⁴ And Meshobab, Jamlech, 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, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel and Benaiah; ³⁷ Ziza the son of Shiphi the son of Allon the son of Jedaiah the son of Shimri the son of Shemaiah. ³⁸ These are such as came by name, heads of these kindreds. And the ancient households of them spread in multitude. ³⁹ And they went as far as Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their cattle. ⁴⁰ And they found fat pasture and good and a wide land both quiet and fruitful: for they of Ham dwelt there before. ⁴¹ And these now afore written by name went in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote the tents of them and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and there dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their sheep. ⁴² And thereto there went of the said children of Simeon five hundred men — Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel the sons of Ishi being their heads - ⁴³ and smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped and they dwelt there unto this day.