1 Chronicles 4–8

Other Clans of Judah

4The descendants of Judah:^v

Perez, Hezron,^w Karmi, Hur and Shobal.

²Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

³These were the sons^a of Etam:

Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi. ⁴Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah.

These were the descendants of Hur,^x the firstborn of Ephrathah and father^b of Bethlehem.^y

⁵Ashhur^z the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

⁶Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.

⁷The sons of Helah:

Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan, ⁸and Koz, who was the father of Anub and Hazzobebah and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum.

⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,^c saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” ¹⁰Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

¹¹Kelub, Shuhah’s brother, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ¹²Eshton was the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash.^d These were the men of Rekah.

¹³The sons of Kenaz:

Othniel^a and Seraiah.

The sons of Othniel:

Hathath and Meonothai.^{e 14}Meonothai was the father of Ophrah.

Seraiah was the father of Joab,

the father of Ge Harashim.^f It was called this because its people were skilled workers.

¹⁵The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh:

Iru, Elah and Naam.

The son of Elah:

Kenaz.

¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel:

Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

¹⁷The sons of Ezrah:

Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered’s wives gave birth to Miriam,^b Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. ¹⁸(His wife from the tribe of Judah gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soko, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.^c) These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, whom Mered had married.

¹⁹The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham:

the father of Keilah^d the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maakathite.^e

²⁰The sons of Shimon:

Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan and Tilon.

The descendants of Ishi:

Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.

²¹The sons of Shelah^f son of Judah:

Er the father of Lekah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth Ashbea, ²²Jokim, the men of Kozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (These records are from ancient times.) ²³They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.

Simeon

4:28–33pp—Jos 19:2–10

²⁴The descendants of Simeon:^g

Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib,^h Zerah and Shaul;

²⁵Shallum was Shaul’s son, Mibsam his son and Mishma his son.

²⁶The descendants of Mishma:

Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son and Shimei his son.

²⁷Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children; so their entire clan did not become as numerous as the people of Judah. ²⁸They lived in Beersheba,ⁱ Moladah,^j Hazar Shual, ²⁹Bilhah, Ezem,^k Tolad, ³⁰Bethuel, Hormah,^l Ziklag,^{m 31}Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri and Shaaraim.ⁿ These were their towns until the reign of David. ³²Their surrounding villages were Etam, Ain,^o Rimmon, Token and Ashan^p—five towns—³³and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath.^g These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical record.

³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, ³⁵Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, ³⁶also Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.

³⁸The men listed above by name were leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly, ³⁹and they went to the outskirts of Gedor^q to the east of the valley in search of pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰They found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful and quiet.^r Some Hamites had lived there formerly.

⁴¹The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites^s who were there and completely destroyed^h them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks. ⁴²And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.^{t 43}They killed the remaining Amalekites^u who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

Reuben

5The sons of Reuben^v the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed,^w his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph^x son of Israel;^y so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,^{z 2}and though Judah^a was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler^b came from him, the rights of the firstborn^c belonged to Joseph)—³the sons of Reuben^d the firstborn of Israel:

Hanok, Pallu,^e Hezron^f and Karmi.

⁴The descendants of Joel:

Shemaiah his son, Gog his son,

Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son,

Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser^ag king of Assyria took into exile. Beerah was a leader of the Reubenites.

⁷Their relatives by clans,^h listed according to their genealogical records:

Jeiel the chief, Zechariah, ⁸and Bela son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. They settled in the area from Aroerⁱ to Nebo^j and Baal Meon.^{k 9}To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates^l River, because their livestock had increased in Gilead.^m

¹⁰During Saul’s reign they waged war against the Hagritesⁿ, who were defeated at their hands; they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the entire region east of Gilead.

Gad

¹¹The Gadites^o lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salekah:^p

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

¹³Their relatives, by families, were:

Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jakan, Zia and Eber—seven in all.

¹⁴These were the sons of Abihail 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 son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family.

¹⁶The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended.

¹⁷All these were entered in the genealogical records during the reigns of Jotham^q king of Judah and Jeroboam^r king of Israel.

¹⁸The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men ready for military service^s—able-bodied men who could handle shield and sword, who could use a bow, and who were trained for battle. ¹⁹They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur,^t Naphish and Nodab. ²⁰They were helped^u in fighting them, and God delivered the Hagrites and all their allies into their hands, because they cried^v out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted^w in him. ²¹They seized the livestock of the Hagrites—fifty thousand camels, two hundred fifty thousand sheep and two thousand donkeys. They also took one hundred thousand people captive, ²²and many others fell slain, because the battle^x was God’s. And they occupied the land until the exile.^y

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

²³The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh^z were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).^a

²⁴These were the heads of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel. They were brave warriors, famous men, and heads of their families. ²⁵But they were unfaithful^b to the God of their ancestors and prostituted^c themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit^d of Pul^e king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser^f king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah,^g Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

Levi

6^aThe sons of Levi:^h

Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

²The sons of Kohath:

Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.ⁱ

³The children of Amram:

Aaron, Moses and Miriam.^j

The sons of Aaron:

Nadab, Abihu,^k Eleazar^l and Ithamar.^m

⁴Eleazar was the father of Phinehas,ⁿ

Phinehas the father of Abishua,

⁵Abishua the father of Bukki,

Bukki the father of Uzzi,

⁶Uzzi the father of Zerahiah,

Zerahiah the father of Meraioth,

⁷Meraioth the father of Amariah,

Amariah the father of Ahitub,

⁸Ahitub the father of Zadok,^o

Zadok the father of Ahimaaz,

⁹Ahimaaz the father of Azariah,

Azariah the father of Johanan,

¹⁰Johanan the father of Azariah^p (it was he who served as priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem),

¹¹Azariah the father of Amariah,

Amariah the father of Ahitub,

¹²Ahitub the father of Zadok,

Zadok the father of Shallum,

¹³Shallum the father of Hilkiah,^q

Hilkiah the father of Azariah,

¹⁴Azariah the father of Seraiah,^r

and Seraiah the father of Jozadak.^b

¹⁵Jozadak^s was deported when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

¹⁶The sons of Levi:^t

Gershon,^c Kohath and Merari.^u

¹⁷These are the names of the sons of Gershon:

Libni and Shimei.^v

¹⁸The sons of Kohath:

Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.^w

¹⁹The sons of Merari:^x

Mahli and Mushi.^y

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:

²⁰Of Gershon:

Libni his son, Jahath his son,

Zimmah his son, ²¹Joah his son,

Iddo his son, Zerah his son

and Jeatherai his son.

²²The descendants of Kohath:

Amminadab his son, Korah^z his son,

Assir his son, ²³Elkanah his son,

Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,

²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel^a his son,

Uzziah his son and Shaul his son.

²⁵The descendants of Elkanah:

Amasai, Ahimoth,

²⁶Elkanah his son,^d…