1 Chronicles
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- The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron,
Carmi, Hur and Shobal.
- Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath,
and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
- These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma
and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
- Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer
the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephrathah and father of Bethlehem.
- Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
Helah and Naarah.
- Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni
and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.
- The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
- and Koz, who was the father of Anub and
Hazzobebah and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum.
- Jabez was more honorable than his brothers.
His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I gave birth to him in pain."
- Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh,
that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me,
and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted
his request.
- Kelub, Shuhah's brother, was the father
of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
- Eshton was the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah
and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These were the men of Recah.
- The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah.
The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.
- Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah
was the father of Joab, the father of Ge Harashim. It was called this because
its people were craftsmen.
- The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru,
Elah and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
- The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria
and Asarel.
- The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher
and Jalon. One of Mered's wives gave birth to Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the
father of Eshtemoa.
- (His Judean wife gave birth to Jered the
father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.)
These were the children of Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, whom Mered had married.
- The sons of Hodiah's wife, the sister of
Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
- The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan
and Tilon. The descendants of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.
- The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the
father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen
workers at Beth Ashbea,
- Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and
Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (These records are from ancient
times.)
- They were the potters who lived at Netaim
and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.
- The descendants of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin,
Jarib, Zerah and Shaul;
- Shallum was Shaul's son, Mibsam his son
and Mishma his son.
- The descendants of Mishma: Hammuel his son,
Zaccur his son and Shimei his son.
- Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters,
but his brothers did not have many children; so their entire clan did not
become as numerous as the people of Judah.
- They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar
Shual,
- Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
- Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
- Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri and
Shaaraim. These were their towns until the reign of David.
- Their surrounding villages were Etam, Ain,
Rimmon, Token and Ashan -- five towns --
- and all the villages around these towns
as far as Baalath. These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical
record.
- Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah,
- Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, the son of
Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
- also Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah,
Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
- and Ziza son of Shiphi, the son of Allon,
the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.
- The men listed above by name were leaders
of their clans. Their families increased greatly,
- and they went to the outskirts of Gedor
to the east of the valley in search of pasture for their flocks.
- They found rich, good pasture, and the land
was spacious, peaceful and quiet. Some Hamites had lived there formerly.
- The men whose names were listed came in
the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings
and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed them, as is
evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture
for their flocks.
- And five hundred of these Simeonites, led
by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill
country of Seir.
- They killed the remaining Amalekites who
had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
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