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1 Chronicles  Chapter 2    Back    Next

{2:1} These are the sons of Israel
: Reuben, Simeon, Levi
, and Judah
, Issachar
, and Zebulun,

{2:2} Dan, Joseph
, and Benjamin
, Naphtali, Gad
, and Asher
.

{2:3} The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess
. Er, Judah's firstborn
, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh;
and he killed him.

{2:4} Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

{2:5} The sons of Perez: Hezron
, and Hamul
.

{2:6} The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman
, and Calcol
, and Dara; five of them in all.

{2:7} The sons of Carmi
: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.

{2:8} The sons of Ethan: Azariah.

{2:9} The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel
, and Ram, and Chelubai.

{2:10} Ram became the father
of Amminadab
, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

{2:11} and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz
,

{2:12} and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse
;

{2:13} and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab
, and Abinadab
the second, and Shimea the third,

{2:14} Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

{2:15} Ozem the sixth, David
the seventh;

{2:16} and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail
. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai
, and Joab
, and Asahel
, three.

{2:17} Abigail bore Amasa
; and the father of Amasa was Jether
the Ishmaelite.

{2:18} Caleb
the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah
his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher
, and Shobab, and Ardon
.

{2:19} Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath
, who bore him Hur
.

{2:20} Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel
.

{2:21} Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir
the father of Gilead
, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

{2:22} Segub became the father of Jair
, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

{2:23} Geshur
and Aram
took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath
, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

{2:24} After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah
Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

{2:25} The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah
.

{2:26} Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

{2:27} The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

{2:28} The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur
.

{2:29} The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail
; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.

{2:30} The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

{2:31} The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

{2:32} The sons of Jada the brother
of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan
; and Jether died without children.

{2:33} The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

{2:34} Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian
, whose name was Jarha.

{2:35} Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.

{2:36} Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,

{2:37} and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,

{2:38} and Obed became the father of Jehu
, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

{2:39} and Azariah became the father of Helez
, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,

{2:40} and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,

{2:41} and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

{2:42} The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha
his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah
the father of Hebron
.

{2:43} The sons of Hebron: Korah
, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

{2:44} Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

{2:45} The son of Shammai was Maon
; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur
.

{2:46} Ephah
, Caleb's concubine
, bore Haran
, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

{2:47} The sons of Jahdai
: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

{2:48} Maacah
, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

{2:49} She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah
, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah
.

{2:50} These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim
,

{2:51} Salma the father of Bethlehem
, Hareph the father of Beth Gader.

{2:52} Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

{2:53} The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites
, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites
.

{2:54} The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites
, the Zorites.

{2:55} The families of scribes who lived at Jabez
: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites
who came of Hammath
, the father of the house of Rechab.

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