1 Chronicles 4

¹The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal

²Truly, Reaiah, the son of Shobal, conceived Jahath; from him were born Ahumai and Lahad. These are the kindred of the Zorathites

³And this is the stock of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi

⁴Now Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratha, the father of Bethlehem

⁵Truly, for Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, there were two wives: Helah and Naarah

⁶And Naarah bore to him: Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These are the sons of Naarah

⁷And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan

⁸Now Koz conceived Anub, and Zobebah, and the kindred of Aharhel, the son of Harum

⁹But Jabez was renown, more so than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “For I bore him in sorrow.

¹⁰Truly, Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “If only, when blessing, you will bless me, and will broaden my borders, and your hand will be with me, and you will cause me not to be oppressed by evil.” And God granted to him the things for which he prayed

¹¹Now Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, conceived Mehir, who was the father of Eshton

¹²Then Eshton conceived Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah

¹³Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai

¹⁴Meonothai conceived Ophrah, but Seraiah conceived Joab, the father of the Valley of Artisans. For indeed, there were artisans there

¹⁵Truly, the sons of Chelub, the son of Jephunneh, were Iru, and Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz

¹⁶Also, the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel

¹⁷And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and he conceived Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa

¹⁸And then his wife, Judaia, bore Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. Now there were sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married

¹⁹and sons of his wife Hodiah, the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and of Eshtemoa, who was from Maacathi

²⁰And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, son of Hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Benzoheth

²¹The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the kindred of the house of the workers of fine linen in the house of the oath

²²and he who caused the sun to stand still, and the men of Lying, and Secure, and Burning, who were leaders in Moab, and who returned into Lehem. Now these words are ancient

²³These are the potters living in the Plantations and in the Hedges, with a king in his works, and they were dwelling there

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul

²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son

²⁶The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son

²⁷The sons of Shimei were sixteen, and there were six daughters. But his brothers did not have many sons, and the entire kindred was not equal to the sum of the sons of Judah

²⁸Now they lived in Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual

²⁹and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad

³⁰and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag

³¹and in Beth-marcaboth, and in Hazarsusim, and in Bethbiri, and in Shaaraim. These were their cities until king David

³²And their towns were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities

³³with all their villages, on every side of these cities, as far as Baal. This is their habitation and the distribution of the settlements

³⁴And there were Meshobab and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah

³⁵and Joel, and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel

³⁶and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah

³⁷as well as Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah

³⁸These were the names of the leaders in their kindred. And they were multiplied greatly within the houses of their marriages

³⁹And they set out, so that they might enter into Gedor, as far as the eastern valley, and so that they might seek pastures for their flocks

⁴⁰And they found fat and very good pastures, and a very wide and quiet and fruitful land, in which some from the stock of Ham had lived before

⁴¹So then, those whose names have been written above, went forth in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah. And they struck down the inhabitants who had been found there with their dwellings. And they wiped them out, even to the present day. And they lived in place of them, because they found very fat pastures there

⁴²Also, some of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went away to mount Seir, having as leaders Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi

⁴³And they struck down the remnant of the Amalekites, those who had been able to escape, and they lived there in place of them, even to this day