The First Book of The Chronicles

1Ch 4:1 The sons of Judah; Pha´-rez, Hez´ron, and Car´-mi, and Hur, and Sho´-bal.

1Ch 4:2 And Re-a´-iah the son of Sho´-bal begat Ja´-hath; and Ja´-hath begat Ahu´-mai, and La´-had. These are the families of the Zo´-rath-ites.

1Ch 4:3 And these were of the father of E´-tam; Jez´-re-el, and Ish´-ma, and Id´-bash: and the name of their sister was Haz-e-lel-po´-ni:

1Ch 4:4 And Pe-nu´-el the father of Ge´dor, and E´-zer the father of Hu´shah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Eph´-ra-tah, the father of Beth´–le-hem.

1Ch 4:5 And Ashur the father of Te-ko´a had two wives, He´-lah and Na´-arah.

1Ch 4:6 And Na´-a-rah bare him A-hu´zam, and He´-pher, and Tem´-e-ni, and Ha-a-hash´-ta-ri. These were the sons of Na´-a-rah.

1Ch 4:7 And the sons of He´-lah were, Ze´reth, and Jez´-o-ar, and Eth´-nan.

1Ch 4:8 And Coz begat A´-nub, and Zobe´-bah, and the families of A-har´-hel the son of Ha´-rum.

1Ch 4:9 And Ja´-bez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Ja´-bez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

1Ch 4:10 And Ja´-bez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

1Ch 4:11 And Che´-lub the brother of Shu´-ah begat Me´-hir, which was the father of Esh´-ton.

1Ch 4:12 And Esh´-ton begat Beth–ra´pha, and Pa-se´-ah, and Te-hin´-nah the father of Ir–na´-hash. These are the men of Re´-chah.

1Ch 4:13 And the sons of Ke´-naz; Oth´ni-el, and Se-ra´-iah: and the sons of Oth´-ni-el; Ha´-thath.

1Ch 4:14 And Me-on´-o-thai begat Oph´rah: and Se-ra´-iah begat Jo´-ab, the father of the valley of Char´-a-shim; for they were craftsmen.

1Ch 4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Je-phun´-neh; I´-ru, E´-lah, and Na´-am: and the sons of E´-lah, even Ke´-naz.

1Ch 4:16 And the sons of Je-ha-le´-le-el; Ziph, and Zi´-phah, Tir´-i-a, and A-sa´-re-el.

1Ch 4:17 And the sons of Ezra were, Je´ther, and Me´-red, and E´-pher, and Ja´-lon: and she bare Miriam, and Sham´-mai, and Ish´-bah the father of Esh-te-mo´-a.

1Ch 4:18 And his wife Je-hu-di´-jah bare Je´-red the father of Ge´-dor, and He´-ber the father of So´-cho, and Jeku´-thi-el the father of Za-no´-ah. And these are the sons of Bi-thi´-ah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Me´-red took.

1Ch 4:19 And the sons of his wife Ho-di´ah the sister of Na´-ham, the father of Kei´-lah the Gar´-mite, and Esh-temo´-a the Ma-ach´-a-thite.

1Ch 4:20 And the sons of Shi´-mon were, Amnon, and Rin´-nah, Ben–ha´nan, and Ti´-lon. And the sons of Ish´-i were, Zo´-heth, and Ben–zo´heth.

1Ch 4:21 The sons of She´-lah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Le´-cah, and La´-a-dah the father of Ma-re´shah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ash-be´-a,

1Ch 4:22 And Jo´-kim, and the men of Cho-ze´-ba, and Jo´-ash, and Sa´-raph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jash´-u-bi–le´-hem. And these are ancient things.

1Ch 4:23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

1Ch 4:24 The sons of Simeon were, Nem´-u-el, and Ja´-min, Ja´-rib, Ze´rah, and Sha´-ul:

1Ch 4:25 Shal´-lum his son, Mib´-sam his son, Mish´-ma his son.

1Ch 4:26 And the sons of Mish´-ma; Ham´-u-el his son, Zac´-chur his son, Shim´-e-i his son.

1Ch 4:27 And Shim´-e-i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

1Ch 4:28 And they dwelt at Be´-er–she´ba, and Mol´-a-dah, and Ha´-zar– shu´-al,

1Ch 4:29 And at Bil´-hah, and at E´-zem, and at To´-lad,

1Ch 4:30 And at Be-thu´-el, and at Hor´mah, and at Zik´-lag,

1Ch 4:31 And at Beth–mar´-ca-both, and Ha´-zar–su´-sim, and at Beth–bir´-e-i, and at Sha-a-ra´-im. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

1Ch 4:32 And their villages were, E´-tam, and A´-in, Rim´-mon, and To´-chen, and A´-shan, five cities:

1Ch 4:33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Ba´al. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

1Ch 4:34 And Me-sho´-bab, and Jam´-lech, and Jo´-shah the son of Am-a-zi´-ah,

1Ch 4:35 And Jo´-el, and Je´-hu the son of Jos-i-bi´-ah, the son of Se-ra´-iah, the son of A´-si-el,

1Ch 4:36 And E-li-o-e´-nai, and Ja-a-ko´bah, and Jesh-o-ha´-iah, and A-sa´iah, and A´-di-el, and Je-sim´-i-el, and Be-na´-iah,

1Ch 4:37 And Zi´-za the son of Shi´-phi, the son of Al´-lon, the son of Je-da´iah, the son of Shim´-ri, the son of She-ma´-iah;

1Ch 4:38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

1Ch 4:39 And they went to the entrance of Ge´-dor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

1Ch 4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

1Ch 4:41 And these written by name came in the days of Hez-e-ki´-ah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

1Ch 4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Se´-ir, having for their captains Pel-a-ti´-ah, and Ne-a-ri´-ah, and Re-pha´-iah, and Uz-zi´-el, the sons of Ish´-i.

1Ch 4:43 And they smote the rest of the Am´-a-lek-ites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.