1 Chronicles 2–8

Chapter 2

Genealogy: Twelve Sons of Jacob (Israel)

^1aThese are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

²Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

^3aThe sons of Judah were Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so He put him to death.

^4aTamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

⁵The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁶The sons of Zerah were ¹Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and ²Dara; five of them in all.

⁷The ¹son of Carmi was ^2aAchar, the troubler of Israel, who violated the ban.

⁸The ¹son of Ethan was Azariah.

Genealogy of David

⁹Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him were Jerahmeel, Ram and Chelubai.

¹⁰Ram ¹became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah;

¹¹Nahshon became the father of Salma, Salma became the father of Boaz,

¹²Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;

¹³and Jesse became the father of Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab the second, ¹Shimea the third,

¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

¹⁵Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were ¹Abshai, Joab and Asahel.

¹⁷Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was ¹Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸Now Caleb the son of Hezron had sons by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

²⁰Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.

²¹Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

²²Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

²³But Geshur and Aram took ¹the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

²⁴After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

²⁵Now the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem and Ahijah.

²⁶Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

²⁷The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin and Eker.

²⁸The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur.

²⁹The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

³⁰The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim, and Seled died without sons.

³¹The ¹son of Appaim was Ishi. And the son of Ishi was Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan was Ahlai.

³²The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether and Jonathan, and Jether died without sons.

³³The sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

³⁴Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha.

³⁵Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant in marriage, and she bore him Attai.

³⁶Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,

³⁷and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,

³⁸and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

³⁹and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,

⁴⁰and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,

⁴¹and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

⁴²Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and ¹his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron.

⁴³The sons of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.

⁴⁴Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

⁴⁵The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

⁴⁶Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

⁴⁷The sons of Jahdai were 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 Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

⁵⁰These were the sons of Caleb.

The ¹sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, were Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

⁵¹Salma the father of Bethlehem and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

⁵²Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,

⁵³and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

⁵⁴The sons of Salma were Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

⁵⁵The families of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Chapter 3

Family of David

^1aNow these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second was Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess;

²the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

³the fifth was Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth was Ithream, by his wife Eglah.

⁴Six were born to him in Hebron, and ^athere he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

^5aThese were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and ^bSolomon, four, by ^cBath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;

⁶and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,

⁷Nogah, Nepheg and Japhia,

⁸Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

⁹All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and ^aTamar was their sister.

¹⁰Now Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

¹¹Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

¹²Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

¹³Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

¹⁴Amon his son, Josiah his son.

¹⁵The sons of Josiah were Johanan the firstborn, and the second was Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

¹⁶The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

¹⁷The sons of Jeconiah, the prisoner, were Shealtiel his son,

¹⁸and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

¹⁹The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the ¹sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister;

²⁰and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-hesed, five.

²¹The ¹sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

²²The ¹descendants of Shecaniah were Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat, six.

²³The ¹sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.

²⁴The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani, seven.

Chapter 4

Line of Hur, Asher

^1aThe sons of Judah were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal.

²Reaiah the son of Shobal ¹became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

³These were the ¹sons 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 were Zereth, ¹Izhar and Ethnan.

⁸Koz became the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

¹⁰Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

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

¹²Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of ¹Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

¹³Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

¹⁴Meonothai became the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of ¹Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.

¹⁵The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah and Naam; and the ¹son of Elah was ²Kenaz.

¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel were Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

¹⁷The ¹sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. (²And these are the sons of Bithia the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took) and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

¹⁸His Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

¹⁹The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the ¹fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

²⁰The sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

²¹The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

²²and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And the ¹records are ancient.

²³These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

Descendants of Simeon

²⁴The sons of Simeon were ¹Nemuel and Jamin, ²Jarib, ³Zerah, Shaul;

²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma…