1 Chronicles 5–6

Chapter 5

Genealogy from Reuben

¹Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for ^ahe was the firstborn, but because ^bhe defiled his father’s bed, ^chis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

^2aThough Judah prevailed over his brothers, and ^bfrom him came the leader, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

^3athe sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

⁴The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, ^aShimei his son,

⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶Beerah his son, whom ¹Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was leader of the Reubenites.

⁷His ¹kinsmen by their families, ^ain the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah

⁸and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in ^aAroer, even to Nebo and Baal-meon.

⁹To the east he settled as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, ^abecause their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰In the days of Saul ^athey made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, so that they ¹occupied their tents throughout ²all the land east of Gilead.

¹¹Now the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of ^aBashan as far as ^bSalecah.

¹²Joel was the chief and Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat in Bashan.

¹³Their ¹kinsmen of their fathers’ households were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven.

¹⁴These were the sons 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, was head of their fathers’ households.

¹⁶They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of ^aSharon, as far as their ¹borders.

¹⁷All of these were enrolled in the genealogies in the days of ^aJotham king of Judah and in the days of ^bJeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were skillful in battle, were 44,760, who ^awent to war.

¹⁹They made war against ^athe Hagrites, ^bJetur, Naphish and Nodab.

²⁰They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for ^athey cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because ^bthey trusted in Him.

²¹They took away their cattle: their 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 ¹men.

²²For many fell slain, because ^athe war was of God. And ^bthey settled in their place until the ^cexile.

²³Now the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; from Bashan to Baal-hermon and ^aSenir and Mount Hermon they were numerous.

²⁴These were the heads of their fathers’ households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ households.

²⁵But they ^aacted treacherously against the God of their fathers and ^bplayed the harlot ^cafter the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

²⁶So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^aPul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of ¹Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he ^bcarried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

Chapter 6

Genealogy: The Priestly Line

^11aThe sons of Levi were ²Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

²The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

³The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁴Eleazar ¹became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua,

⁵and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi,

⁶and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth,

⁷Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

⁸and ^aAhitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok ^bbecame the father of Ahimaaz,

⁹and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan,

¹⁰and Johanan became the father of Azariah (^ait was he who served as the priest in the house ^bwhich Solomon built in Jerusalem),

¹¹and ^aAzariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

¹²and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of ¹Shallum,

¹³and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah,

¹⁴and Azariah became the father of ^aSeraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak;

¹⁵and Jehozadak went along when the Lord carried Judah and Jerusalem away into exile ¹by Nebuchadnezzar.

^161aThe sons of Levi were ²Gershom, Kohath and Merari.

¹⁷These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁸The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

¹⁹The sons of ^aMerari were Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

²⁰Of 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 were Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

²³Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son and Assir his son,

²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son and Shaul his son.

²⁵The sons of Elkanah were Amasai and Ahimoth.

²⁶As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah were Zophai his son and Nahath his son,

²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

²⁸The sons of Samuel were ^aJoel the firstborn, and Abijah the second.

²⁹The sons of Merari were Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

³⁰Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

^31aNow these are those whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the Lord, ^bafter the ark rested there.

³²They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they ¹served in their office according to their order.

³³These are those who ¹served with their sons: From the sons of the Kohathites were Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

³⁴the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

³⁵the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

³⁶the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

³⁷the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

³⁸the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

³⁹Heman’s brother Asaph stood at his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

⁴⁰the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

⁴¹the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

⁴²the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

⁴³the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

⁴⁴On the left hand were their ¹kinsmen the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

⁴⁵the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

⁴⁶the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

⁴⁷the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁴⁸Their ¹kinsmen the Levites were ²appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

⁴⁹But Aaron and his sons ^1aoffered on the altar of burnt offering and ^bon the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and ^cto make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

^50aThese are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

⁵¹Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

⁵²Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

⁵³Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

⁵⁴Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders. To the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the ^afirst lot),

⁵⁵to them they gave ^aHebron in the land of Judah and its pasture lands around it;

^56abut the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

^57aTo the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

⁵⁸¹Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

⁵⁹¹Ashan with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

⁶⁰and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its pasture lands, ¹Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

^61aThen to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, from the family of the tribe, from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

⁶²To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.

^63aTo the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

^64aSo the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

⁶⁵They gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, the tribe of the sons of Simeon and the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, ^athese cities which are mentioned by name.

^66aNow some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁷They gave to them the following cities of refuge: Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, Gezer also with its pasture lands,

⁶⁸Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth-horon with its pasture lands,

⁶⁹Aijalon with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands;

⁷⁰and from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasture lands and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family…