1 Chronicles 2–3

A Genealogy of David

2These are the sons of ^tIsrael: ^uReuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, ^vIssachar, Zebulun, ^2wDan, ^xJoseph, ^yBenjamin, ^zNaphtali, ^aGad, and Asher. ^3bThe sons of Judah: ^cEr, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. ⁴His daughter-in-law ^dTamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

⁵The ^esons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ⁶The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. ⁷The son¹ of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who ^fbroke faith in the matter of the devoted thing; ⁸and Ethan’s son was Azariah.

⁹The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, ^gRam, and ^hChelubai. ^10gRam fathered Amminadab, and ⁱAmminadab fathered ^jNahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. ¹¹Nahshon fathered ^kSalmon,² Salmon fathered ^lBoaz, ¹²Boaz fathered Obed, ^lObed fathered Jesse. ^13mJesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, ⁿShimea the third, ¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵Ozem the sixth, ^oDavid the seventh. ¹⁶And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. ^pThe sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. ^17qAbigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was ^qJether the Ishmaelite.

^18rCaleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹When Azubah died, ^rCaleb married ^sEphrath, who bore him ^tHur. ²⁰Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered ^uBezalel.

²¹Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of ^vMachir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. ²²And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ^23wBut Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead. ²⁴After the death of Hezron, ^xCaleb went in to Ephrathah,³ the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him ^yAshhur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵The sons of ^zJerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron: Ram, his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ²⁶Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. ²⁷The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. ²⁸The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. ³⁰The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died childless. ³¹The son⁴ of Appaim: Ishi. ^aThe son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. ³²The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless. ³³The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel. ³⁴Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. ³⁵So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai. ³⁶Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered ^bZabad. ^37bZabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered ^cObed. ³⁸Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. ³⁹Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. ⁴⁰Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. ⁴¹Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered ^dElishama.

⁴²The sons of ^eCaleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah⁵ his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son⁶ of Mareshah: ^fHebron.^{7 43}The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema. ⁴⁴Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai. ⁴⁵The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur. ⁴⁶Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez. ⁴⁷The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. ⁴⁸Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. ⁴⁹She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the ^gdaughter of Caleb was Achsah. ⁵⁰These were the descendants of Caleb.

The sons⁸ of Hur the firstborn of ^hEphrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim, ⁵¹ⁱSalma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader. ⁵²Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: ^jHaroeh, half of the Menuhoth. ⁵³And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the ^kZorathites and the Eshtaolites. ⁵⁴The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. ⁵⁵The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the ^lKenites who came from Hammath, the father of ^mthe house of Rechab.

Descendants of David

3ⁿThese are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, ^oDaniel, by Abigail the Carmelite, ²the third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith; ³the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah; ⁴six were born to him in Hebron, ^pwhere he reigned for seven years and six months. ^qAnd he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. ^5rThese were born to him in Jerusalem: ^sShimea, Shobab, Nathan and ^tSolomon, four by ^uBath-shua, the daughter of ^uAmmiel; ⁶then Ibhar, ^vElishama, Eliphelet, ⁷Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, ⁸Elishama, ^wEliada, and Eliphelet, nine. ⁹All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, ^xand Tamar was their sister.

¹⁰The son of Solomon was ^yRehoboam, ^zAbijah his son, ^aAsa his son, ^bJehoshaphat his son, ^11cJoram his son, ^dAhaziah his son, ^eJoash his son, ^12fAmaziah his son, ^gAzariah his son, ^hJotham his son, ¹³ⁱAhaz his son, ^jHezekiah his son, ^kManasseh his son, ^14lAmon his son, ^mJosiah his son. ¹⁵The sons of Josiah: ⁿJohanan the firstborn, the second ^oJehoiakim, the third ^pZedekiah, the fourth Shallum. ¹⁶The descendants of ^qJehoiakim: ^rJeconiah his son, ^sZedekiah his son; ¹⁷and the sons of Jeconiah, the ^tcaptive: ^uShealtiel his son, ¹⁸Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah; ¹⁹and the sons of Pedaiah: ^vZerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of ^vZerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister; ²⁰and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five. ²¹The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son¹ Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah. ²²The son² of Shecaniah: ^wShemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: ^xHattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. ²³The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. ²⁴The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.