1 Chronicles 4

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

2Reaiah son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

3These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

4Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of 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, Zohar, and Ethnan.

8Koz fathered Anub and Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel son of Harum.

9Jabez was more honored than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

10Jabez called on the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me richly and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain!” And God granted what he asked.

11Chelub the brother of Shuhah fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

12Eshton fathered 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 and Meonothai.

14Meonothai fathered Ophrah. Seraiah fathered Joab the father of Ge-harashim, the Valley of Craftsmen, for they were craftsmen.

15The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.

16The 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.

18His Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.

19The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham: the father 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 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, the men of Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. These records are ancient.

23They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king in his service.

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

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

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

27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many sons, 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 David became king.

32Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five towns,

33along with all their villages that were around these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a 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, mentioned by name, were leaders in their clans, and their ancestral houses increased greatly.

39They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to look for pasture for their flocks.

40They found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, for those who had lived there before were descended from Ham.

41These men, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the tents of those people and the Meunites who were found there, and devoted them to destruction, as is still the case today. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42Some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

43They struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.