1 Chronicles 4–8

¹Sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. ²And Reaiah son of Shobal begat Jahath, and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad; these are families of the Zorathite. ³And these are of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister is Hazzelelponi, ⁴and Penuel is father of Gedor, and Ezer father of Hushah. These are sons of Hur, first-born of Ephratah, father of Beth-Lehem. ⁵And to Ashhur father of Tekoa were two wives, Helah and Naarah; ⁶and Naarah beareth to him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari: these are sons of Naarah. ⁷And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan. ⁸And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum. ⁹And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ‘Because I have brought forth with grief.’ ¹⁰And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, ‘If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept me from evil—not to grieve me;’ and God bringeth in that which he asked.

¹¹And Chelub brother of Shuah begat Mehir; he is father of Eshton. ¹²And Eshton begat Beth-Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah father of Ir-Nahash; these are men of Rechah. ¹³And sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath. ¹⁴And Meonothai begat Ophrah, and Seraiah begat Joab father of the valley of artificers, for they were artificers. ¹⁵And sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and sons of Elah, even Kenaz. ¹⁶And sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. ¹⁷And sons of Ezra are Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she beareth Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa. ¹⁸And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered father of Gedor, and Heber father of Socho, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. And these are sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took, ¹⁹and sons of the wife of Hodiah sister of Nahom: Abi-Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. ²⁰And sons of Shimon are Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Hanon, and Tilon; and sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-Zoheth. ²¹Sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er father of Lecah, and Laadah father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the service of fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; ²²and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled over Moab and Jashubi-Lehem; and these things are ancient. ²³They are the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; with the king in his work they dwelt there.

²⁴Sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; ²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ²⁶And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. ²⁷And to Shimei are sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah. ²⁸And they dwell in Beer-Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shaul, ²⁹and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad, ³⁰and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag, ³¹and in Beth-Marcaboth, and in Hazar-Susim, and in Beth-Birei, and in Shaarim; these are their cities till the reigning of David. ³²And their villages are Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities, ³³and all their villages that are round about these cities unto Baal; these are their dwellings, and they have their genealogy: ³⁴even Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah son of Amaziah, ³⁵and Joel, and Jehu son of Josibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, ³⁶and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. ³⁸These who are coming in by name are princes in their families, and the house of their fathers have broken forth into a multitude; ³⁹and they go to the entrance of Gedor, unto the east of the valley, to seek pasture for their flock, ⁴⁰and they find pasture, fat and good, and the land broad of sides, and quiet, and safe, for of Ham are those dwelling there before. ⁴¹And these who are written by name come in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smite their tents, and the habitations that have been found there, and devote them to destruction unto this day, and dwell in their stead, because pasture for their flock is there. ⁴²And of them, of the sons of Simeon, there have gone to mount Seir, five hundred men, and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head, ⁴³and they smite the remnant of those escaped of Amalek, and dwell there unto this day.

Chapter 5

¹As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel—for he is the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and he is not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright, ²for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright is to Joseph. ³Sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ⁴Sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ⁶Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur removed; he is prince of the Reubenite. ⁷And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, are heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah, ⁸and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel—he is dwelling in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-Meon; ⁹and at the east he dwelt even unto the entering in of the wilderness, even from the river Phrat, for their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. ¹⁰And in the days of Saul they have made war with the Hagarites, who fall by their hand, and they dwell in their tents over all the face of the east of Gilead. ¹¹And the sons of Gad, over-against them have dwelt in the land of Bashan unto Salcah, ¹²Joel the head, and Shapham the second, and Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan; ¹³and their brethren of the house of their fathers are Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. ¹⁴These are sons of Abihail 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, is head of the house of their fathers; ¹⁶and they dwell in Gilead in Bashan, and in her small towns, and in all suburbs of Sharon, upon their outskirts; ¹⁷all of them reckoned themselves by genealogy in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸Sons of Reuben, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, of sons of valour, men bearing shield and sword, and treading bow, and taught in battle, are forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going out to the host. ¹⁹And they make war with the Hagarites, and Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab, ²⁰and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who are with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him. ²¹And they take captive their cattle, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of human beings a hundred thousand; ²²for many have fallen pierced, for of God is the battle; and they dwell in their stead till the removal. ²³And the sons of the half of the tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-Hermon, and Senir, and mount Hermon, they have multiplied. ²⁴And these are heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, men mighty in valour, men of name, heads to the house of their fathers. ²⁵And they trespass against the God of their fathers, and go a-whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed from their presence; ²⁶and stir up doth the God of Israel the spirit of Pul king of Asshur, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur, and he removeth them—even the Reubenite, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh—and bringeth them in to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan unto this day.

Chapter 6

¹Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ²And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ³And sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, ⁵and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, ⁶and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, ⁷Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ⁸and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, ⁹and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, ¹⁰and Johanan begat Azariah, him who acted as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹And Azariah begetteth Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ¹²and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, ¹³and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, ¹⁴and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; ¹⁵and Jehozadak hath gone in Jehovah’s removing Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁶Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷And these are names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸And sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are families of the Levite according to their fathers; ²⁰of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. ²²Sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, ²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵And sons of Elkanah; Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶Elkanah; sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸And sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni, and the second Abijah. ²⁹Sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah…