[1] The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. [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. [3]
These were [the sons of] the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and
Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi; [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 Beth-lehem. [5] Ashhur the father
of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. [6] Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and
Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. [7] The
sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. [8] Hakkoz became the father
of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. [9]
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez,
saying, Because I bore him with sorrow. [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. [11]
Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father
of Eshton. [12] Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and
Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. [13] The sons
of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. [14]
Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of
Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen. [15] The sons of
Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and
Kenaz. [16] The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
[17] The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she
bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. [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. [19] The sons of the wife of Hodiah,
the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa
the Maacathite. [20] The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and
Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth. [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; [22] and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and
Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are
ancient. [23] These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and
Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work. [24] The sons of
Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; [25] Shallum his son,
Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. [26] The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son,
Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. [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. [28] They lived at
Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, [29] and at Bilhah, and at Ezem,
and at Tolad, [30] and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, [31] and
at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim.
These were their cities to the reign of David. [32] Their villages were
Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; [33] and all
their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were
their habitations, and they have their genealogy. [34] Meshobab, and
Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, [35] and Joel, and Jehu the son of
Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, [36] and Elioenai, and
Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
[37] and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the
son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah- [38] these mentioned by name were
princes in their families: and their fathers` houses increased greatly.
[39] They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the
valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. [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. [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. [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. [43] They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped,
and have lived there to this day.
