1 Chroniques 4

More descendants of Judah

¹The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal. ²Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

³These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi.^{a 4}Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem. ⁵Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ⁶Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. ⁷The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar and Ethnan.^{b 8}Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum. ⁹Jabez was held in greater honor than his brothers. His mother gave him the name Jabez, for she said, “I bore him in pain.”^{c 10}Jabez called on the God of Israel: “If only you would bless me richly and enlarge my border! If only your hand would be with me, and you would keep me from harm, so that it might not pain me!” And God gave him what he had asked. ¹¹Chelub the brother of Shuhah was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ¹²Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.

¹³The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.^{d 14}Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, the Valley of Craftsmen, for its people were craftsmen.

¹⁵The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah and Naam. The sons of Elah: Kenaz.^{e 16}The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel. ¹⁷The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. She conceived Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.^{f 18}His Judean wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Mered married.

¹⁹The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.^{g 20}The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth. ²¹The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, the clans of the guild of linen workers at Beth-ashbea, ²²and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. These records are ancient.^{hij 23}They were potters, and they lived in Netaim and Gederah; they made their home there with the king, working for him.

The descendants of Simeon

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah and Shaul. ²⁵Shaul’s son was Shallum, his son was Mibsam, and his son was Mishma. ²⁶The descendants of Mishma: his son Hammuel, Hammuel’s son Zaccur, and Zaccur’s son Shimei. ²⁷Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had few children, and their whole clan did not become as numerous as the people of Judah.

²⁸They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, ²⁹Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These were their towns until the reign of David. ³²Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five towns, ³³and all their villages around these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept their own genealogical record. ³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, ³⁵Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, ³⁶Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. ³⁸These men listed by name were leaders in their clans, and their ancestral families grew very large. ³⁹They went to the approach to Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, looking for pasture for their flocks.^{k 40}They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide open, quiet and at peace, for those who had lived there before were descended from Ham. ⁴¹In the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, these men whose names are written here came and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. They devoted them to destruction, so that they are gone to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.^{l 42}Some of them, five hundred men of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ⁴³They struck down the Amalekites who were left, those who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.