1 Chronicles Chapter 4 Back Next{4:1} The sons of
Judah: Perez,
Hezron, and
Carmi, and
Hur, and Shobal.
{4:2} Reaiah the son of Shobal became the
father of
Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
{4:3} These were the sons of the father of
Etam:
Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
{4:4} 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.
{4:5} Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
Helah and Naarah.
{4:6} Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and
Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
{4:7} The sons of Helah were Zereth,
Izhar, and Ethnan.
{4:8}
Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of
Harum.
{4:9}
Jabez was more honorable than his
brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."
{4:10} Jabez called on the
God of
Israel, saying, "Oh that you would
bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested.
{4:11} Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
{4:12} Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
{4:13} The sons of
Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel:
Hathath.
{4:14} Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of
Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
{4:15} The sons of
Caleb the son of
Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
{4:16} The sons of
Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
{4:17} The sons of Ezrah:
Jether, and
Mered, and Epher, and
Jalon; and she bore
Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of
Eshtemoa.
{4:18} His wife the
Jewess bore Jered the father of
Gedor, and
Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
{4:19} The sons of the wife of
Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of
Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
{4:20} The sons of Shimon:
Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben
Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
{4:21} 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 those who worked fine
linen, of the house of Ashbea;
{4:22} and
Jokim, and the men of
Cozeba, and
Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.
{4:23} These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and
Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
{4:24} The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin,
Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
{4:25} Shallum his son,
Mibsam his son,
Mishma his son.
{4:26} The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
{4:27} Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
{4:28} They lived at
Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
{4:29} and at
Bilhah, and at
Ezem, and at Tolad,
{4:30} and at
Bethuel, and at
Hormah, and at Ziklag,
{4:31} and at
Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at
Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of
David.
{4:32} Their villages were
Etam, and
Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and
Ashan, five cities;
{4:33} and all their villages that were around the same cities, to
Baal. These were their
habitations, and they have their genealogy.
{4:34} Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of
Amaziah,
{4:35} and
Joel, and
Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
{4:36} and
Elioenai, and
Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
Adiel, and Jesimiel, and
Benaiah,
{4:37} and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of
Allon, the son of
Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--
{4:38} these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
{4:39} They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
{4:40} They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
{4:41} These written by name came in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
{4:42} Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their
captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
{4:43} They struck the remnant of the
Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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