³The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him of the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.

⁴And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were five.

⁵And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul.

⁶And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and Chalchal, and Dara, five in all.

⁷And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by the theft of the anathema.

⁸The sons of Ethan: Azarias,

⁹And the sons of Hesron that were born to him: Jerameel, and Ram, and Calubi.

¹⁰And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda.

¹¹And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz.

¹²And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai.

¹³And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the third Simmaa,

¹⁴The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Raddai,

¹⁵The sixth Asom, the seventh David.

¹⁶And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab, and Asael, three.

¹⁷And Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ismahelite.

¹⁸And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife named Azuba, of whom he had Jerioth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to wife Ephrata: who bore him Hur.

²⁰And Hur begot Uri: and Uri begot Bezeleel.

²¹And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years old: and she bore him Segub.

²²And Segub begot Jair, and he had three and twenty cities in the land of Galaad.

²³And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and the villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir father of Galaad.

²⁴And when Hesron was dead, Caleb went in to Ephrata. Hesron also had to wife Abia who bore him Ashur the father of Thecua.

²⁵And the sons of Jerameel the firstborn of Hesron, were Ram his firstborn, and Buna, and Aram, and Asom, and Achia.

²⁶And Jerameel married another wife, named Atara, who was the mother of Onam.

²⁷And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin, and Achar.

²⁸And Onam had sons Semei, and Jada. And the sons of Semei: Nadab, and Abisur.

²⁹And the name of Abisur’s wife was Abihail, who bore him Ahobban, and Molid.

³⁰And the sons of Nadab were Saled and Apphaim. And Saled died without children.

³¹But the son of Apphaim was Jesi: and Jesi begot Sesan. And Sesan begot Oholai.

³²And the sons of Jada the brother of Semei: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether also died without children.

³³But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and Ziza. These were the sons of Jerameel.

³⁴And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and a servant an Egyptian, named Jeraa.

³⁵And he gave him his daughter to wife: and she bore him Ethei.

³⁶And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad.

³⁷And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal begot Obed.

³⁸Obed begot Jehu, Jehu begot Azarias.

³⁹Azarias begot Helles, and Helles begot Elasa.

⁴⁰Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot Sellum,

⁴¹Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia begot Elisama.

⁴²Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerameel were Mesa his firstborn, who was the father of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of Hebron.

⁴³And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Thaphua, and Recem, and Samma.

⁴⁴And Samma begot Raham, the father of Jercaam, and Recem begot Sammai.

⁴⁵The son of Sammai, Maon: and Maon the father of Bethsur.

⁴⁶And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez. And Haran begot Gezez.

⁴⁷And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom, and Joathan, and Gesan, and Phalet, and Epha, and Saaph.

⁴⁸And Maacha the concubine of Caleb bore Saber, and Tharana.

⁴⁹And Saaph the father of Madmena begot Sue the father of Machbena, and the father of Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

⁵⁰These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur the firstborn of Ephrata, Sobal the father of Cariathiarim.

⁵¹Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the father of Bethgader.

⁵²And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half of the places of rest.

⁵³And of the kindred of Cariathiarim, the Jethrites, and Aphuthites, and Semathites, and Maserites. Of them came the Saraites, and Esthaolites.

⁵⁴The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the crowns of the house of Joab, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.

⁵⁵And the families of the scribes that dwell in Jabes, singing and making melody, and abiding in tents. These are the Cinites, who came of Calor (Chamath) father of the house of Rechab.

Chapter 3

Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess.

²The third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tolmai king of Gessur, the fourth Adonias the son of Aggith,

³The fifth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth Jethrahem of Egla his wife.

⁴So six sons were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years.

⁵And these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of Ammiel.

⁶Jebaar also and Elisama,

⁷And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

⁸And Elisama, and Eliada, and Elipheleth, nine:

⁹All these the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines: and they had a sister Thamar.

¹⁰And Solomon’s son was Roboam: whose son Abia begot Asa. And his son was Josaphat,

¹¹The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

¹²And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias

¹³Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.

¹⁴And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias.

¹⁵And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.

¹⁶Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias.

¹⁷The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,

¹⁸Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and Jecemia, Sama, and Nadabia.

¹⁹Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Semei. Zorobabel begot Mosollam, Hananias, and Salomith their sister:

²⁰Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and Hasadias, Josabhesed, five.

²¹And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the father of Jeseias, whose son was Raphaia. And his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia, whose son was Sechenias.

²²The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose sons were Hattus, and Jegaal, and Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in number.

²³The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.

²⁴The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Eliasub, and Pheleia, and Accub, and Johanan, and Dalaia, and Anani, seven.

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