1 Chronicles 4
1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
2 Reaiah son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3 These are of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; their sister's name was Hazelelponi.
4 Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, Ephrathah's firstborn, the father of Bethlehem.
5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan.
8 Koz fathered Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.
9 Jabez was more honored than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “If only you would truly bless me and enlarge my territory, and your hand would be with me, and you would keep me from harm so that I would not suffer pain!” And God granted what he had asked.
11 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir; he was the father of Eshton.
12 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The son of Othniel: Hathath.
14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah, and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, because they were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17 The son of Ezra: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. She conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
18 His wife, the Judean woman, bore Jered, the father of Gedor; Heber, the father of Soco; and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom Mered had taken as his wife.
19 The sons of Hodiah's wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah; Laadah, the father of Mareshah; and the families of the house of fine-linen workers, of the house of Ashbea;
22 and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. These records are ancient.
23 They were potters and residents of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king, working for him.
24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.
25 His son was Shallum, whose son was Mibsam, whose son was Mishma.
26 The sons of Mishma: his son Hammuel, whose son was Zaccur, whose son was Shimei.
27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, and their whole family did not grow as numerous as the sons of Judah.
28 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, and Hazar-shual;
29 in Bilhah, Ezem, and Tolad;
30 in Bethuel, Hormah, and Ziklag;
31 in Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their towns until the reign of David.
32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns.
33 All their villages around these towns extended as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept their genealogical records.
34 Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah son of Amaziah;
35 Joel, and Jehu son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel;
36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah;
37 and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.
38 These men, listed by name, were leaders in their families, and their ancestral households grew greatly in number.
39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to find pasture for their flocks.
40 They found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, because those who had lived there before were descendants of Ham.
41 These men, listed by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the tents and the Meunites who were there, and devoted them to destruction to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks there.
42 Some of them, five hundred men from the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi.
43 They struck down the remnant of the Amalekite survivors and settled there to this day.
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