1 Chronicles 4–8

The Descendants of David

4The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. ²And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. ³And these were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi, ⁴and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. ⁵And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives: Helah and Naarah. ⁶And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. ⁷The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. ⁸And Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum. ⁹And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” ¹⁰And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!” And God granted what he asked. ¹¹Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir. He was the father of Eshton. ¹²And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah. ¹³The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath. ¹⁴And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, because they were craftsmen. ¹⁵The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz. ¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. ¹⁷The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. ¹⁸And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these were the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married. ¹⁹The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. ²⁰The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tolon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth. ²¹The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea; ²²and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. (Now the records are ancient). ²³These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service.

Descendants of Simeon

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, 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. ²⁷Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah. ²⁸And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, ²⁹Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. ³²And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, five cities ³³and all their villages that were surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them.

³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, ³⁵Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel. ³⁶And Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. ³⁸These mentioned by name^a were leaders in their families, and their fathers’ households increased greatly. ³⁹And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there were from Ham. ⁴¹These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴²And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were under their leadership. ⁴³And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

The Descendants of Reuben

5The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn, ²though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph). ³The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ⁴The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ⁶Beerah his son, a leader of the Reubenites, whom Tiglath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported into exile. ⁷And his kinsmen by their families, when their generations were recorded in the genealogy: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, ⁸and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon. ⁹He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert this side of^a the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead. ¹⁰And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they^b fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead.

The Descendants of Gad

¹¹And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: ¹²Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³And their kinsmen according to their fathers’ households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. ¹⁴These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. ¹⁵Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers’ households. ¹⁶And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in its towns,^c and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits. ¹⁷All of them were enrolled in the genealogy in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

¹⁸The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant^d men who carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and who were expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty for going out as an army. ¹⁹And they made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. ²⁰And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him. ²¹And they captured their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels; two hundred and fifty thousand sheep; two thousand donkeys; and one hundred thousand men alive. ²²For many were slain because the war was of God. And they lived under them until the exile.

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

²³And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous. ²⁴Now these were the heads of their fathers’ households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, famous men,^e heads of their fathers’ households. ²⁵But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors^f and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day.

6^a The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ²The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ³The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abishua; ⁵Abishua fathered Bukki; Bukki fathered Uzzi; ⁶Uzzi fathered Zerahiah; Zerahiah fathered Meraioth; ⁷Meraioth fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; ⁸Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Ahimaaz; ⁹Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; Azariah fathered Johanan; ¹⁰and Johanan fathered Azariah. It was he who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹And Azariah fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; ¹²Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Shallum; ¹³Shallum fathered Hilkiah; Hilkiah fathered Azariah; ¹⁴Azariah fathered Seraiah; Seraiah fathered Jehozadak. ¹⁵And Jehozadak went into exile when Yahweh sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

The Descendants of Levi

¹⁶The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷Now these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. Now these are the families of the Levites according to their ancestors.^{b 20}Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. ²²The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, ²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, ²⁶Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, ²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸The sons of Samuel: Joel^c his firstborn and Abijah…