1 Chronicles 4

Descendants of Judah

¹The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.²Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.³These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,⁴and Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, 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, Izhar, and Ethnan.⁸Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum.⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”¹⁰Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.¹¹Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton.¹²Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.¹³The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.¹⁴Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.¹⁵The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.¹⁷The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.¹⁸And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.¹⁹The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.²⁰The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.²¹The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;²²and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).²³These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.

Descendants of Simeon

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;²⁵Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.²⁶The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.²⁷Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men 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 cities until David reigned.³²And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,³³along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.

³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,³⁵Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,³⁶Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,³⁷Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah—³⁸these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers' houses increased greatly.³⁹They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,⁴⁰where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.⁴¹These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.⁴²And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.⁴³And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.