1 Chronicles 4–8

^aThe sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and ^bHur, and ^cShobal. ²And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the ^dZorathites. ³And these were of the father of Etam; ^eJezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: ⁴and Penuel the father of ^fGedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of ^cHur, the firstborn of Ephratah, ^gthe father of Beth-lehem.

⁵And ^hAshur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ⁶And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. ⁷And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. ⁸And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

⁹And ⁱJabez was ^kmore honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with ^lsorrow. ¹⁰And Jabez 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.

¹¹And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton. ¹²And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah. ¹³And the sons of ^mKenaz; ^mOthniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath. ¹⁴And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of ⁿthe valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen. ¹⁵And the sons of ^oCaleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz. ¹⁶And the sons of Jehaleleel; ^pZiph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. ¹⁷And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of ^qEshtemoa. ¹⁸And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of ^rGedor, and Heber the father of ^sSocho, and Jekuthiel the father of ^tZanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. ¹⁹And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of ^uKeilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the ^wMaachathite. ²⁰And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

²¹The sons of ^xShelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of ^yMareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought ^yyfine linen, of the house of Ashbea, ²²and Jokim, and the men of ^zChozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things. ²³These were the potters, and those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

²⁴The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: ²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ²⁶And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. ²⁷And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family ^amultiply, like to the children of Judah. ²⁸And ^bthey dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, ²⁹and at ^cBilhah, and at ^cEzem, and at ^cTolad, ³⁰and at ^dBethuel, and at ^eHormah, and at Ziklag, ³¹and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at ^dBeth-birei, and at ^dShaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. ³²And their villages were, Etam, and ^fAin, ^fRimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: ³³and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

³⁴And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, ³⁵and Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, ³⁶and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; ³⁸these mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and ^gthe house of their fathers ^hincreased greatly. ³⁹And they went to the entrance of ⁱGedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was ^kwide, and ^lquiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. ⁴¹And ^mthese written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and ⁿthe habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their ^orooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴²And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to ^pmount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ⁴³And they smote ^qthe rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

V.Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for ^ahe was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he ^bdefiled his father’s bed, ^chis birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. ²For ^dJudah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:) ^3ethe sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ⁴The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, ⁶Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. ⁷And his brethren by their families, ^fwhen the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, ⁸and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in ^gAroer, even unto ^hNebo and ⁱBaal-meon: ⁹and eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied ^jin the land of Gilead. ¹⁰And in the days of Saul they made war ^kwith the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

¹¹And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto ^lSalchah: ¹²Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. ¹⁴These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; ¹⁵Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. ¹⁶And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of ^mSharon, upon their borders. ¹⁷All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of ⁿJotham king of Judah, and in the days of ^oJeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and ^pto shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, ^qthat went out to the war. ¹⁹And they made war with ^rthe Hagarites, with ^sJetur, and ^sNephish, and Nodab. ²⁰And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for ^tthey cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they ^uput their trust in him. ²¹And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. ²²For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their ^xsteads until ^ythe captivity. ²³And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and ^zSenir, and unto ^zmount Hermon. ²⁴And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers. ²⁵And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went ^aa whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. ²⁶And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^bPul king of Assyria, and the spirit of ^cTilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto ^dHalah, and ^dHabor, and Hara, and ^dto the river Gozan, unto this day.

VI.^aThe sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ²And the sons of Kohath; Amram, ^bIzhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ³And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; ^cNadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

^4dEleazar begat ^ePhinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, ⁵and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, ⁶and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat ^fMeraioth, ⁷Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat ^fAhitub, ⁸and ^gAhitub begat Zadok, and ^hZadok begat ⁱAhimaaz, ⁹and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, ¹⁰and ^jJohanan begat ^kAzariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple ^lthat Solomon built in Jerusalem:) ¹¹and Azariah begat ^llAmariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ¹²and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, ¹³and Shallum begat ^mHilkiah, and Hilkiah begat ^mmAzariah, ¹⁴and Azariah begat ⁿSeraiah, and Seraiah begat ^oJehozadak, ¹⁵and Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem ^pby the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

^16qThe sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; ^rLibni, and Shimei. ¹⁸And ^sthe sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and ^tHebron, and Uzziel. ^19uThe sons of Merari; ^tMahli, and ^tMushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

^20vOf Gershom; Libni his son,…