1 Chronicles, Chapter 4:

Verses from 1 Chronicles, Chapter 4 of the book of 1 Samuel of the Bible.

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Other descendants of Judah

1. These also were the descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal.
2. Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
3. These were the sons of Ethan: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister's name was Hazelelponi.
4. And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrath, the father of Bethlehem.
5. Ashur, the founder of Tekoa, had two wives: Helah and Naarah.
6. Naarah bore him Ahuzan, Hepher, Temeni and Haastari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7. These were the sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan.
8. and Coz, who fathered Anub and Zobebah, and the clans of Aharel son of Harum.
9. Jabez was the most respected man in his family. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “With much pain I bore him.”
10. Jabez prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, please bless me and increase my territory! Let your hand be with me, to keep me from harm and to deliver me from pain.” And God granted his request.
11. Chelub, Shuah's brother, was the father of Mehir, the father of Eshton.
12. Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These lived in Reckah.
13. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.
14. Meonothai became the father of Ophrah. Seraiah became the father of Joab, who founded Ge-Harashim, which was named after its inhabitants, who were craftsmen.
15. These were the sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah and Naam. The son of Elah was Kenaz.
16. These were the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiriah, and Asareel.
17. These were the sons of Ezra: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. Mered married Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh and had sons: Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah, the founder of Eshtemoa.
18. His Jewish wife bore him Jared, the father of Gedor, Heber, the father of Socoh, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.
19. These were the sons of Hodiah's wife, Naham's sister: Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20. The sons of Simon were Amnon, Rinnah, Bene-Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.
21. These were the sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lekah, Laadah the father of Mareshah. Shelah was also the ancestor of the clans of those who worked linen in Beth Ashbea,
22. Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These records are from ancient times.)
23. They were potters and lived in Netaim and Gederah, near the king, for whom they worked.

The descendants of Simeon

24. These were the sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah and Shaul.
25. Saul's son was Shallum, who was the father of Mibsam, who was the father of Mishma.
26. These were the descendants of Mishma: Hamuel his son, Zaccur his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children; so all his clans did not equal the tribe of Judah in number.
28. They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29. Bilhah, Azem, Tolad,
30. Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31. Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32. They also had the five cities of Etham, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan,
33. with all the villages around them as far as Baalath. In these cities they lived and kept a genealogical register.
34. Meshobab, Janlech, Josah the son of Amaziah,
35. Joel, Jehu – son of Josibiah, grandson of Seraiah and great-grandson of Asiel -;
36. also Elioenai, Jaacobah, Jehoaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah
37. and Ziza – son of Shiphi, grandson of Allon, great-grandson of Jedaiah, great-great-grandson of Shimri and great-great-great-grandson of Shemaiah.
38. This is the list of the leaders of their clans. Their families grew very large.
39. So they went to the outskirts of Gedor, to the east of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
40. They found plenty of good pastureland in a vast, peaceful, and quiet region where some Hamites had previously lived.
41. During the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, these men came and attacked the Hamites and Meunites in the region and completely destroyed them, as is still the case today. Then they took their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
42. And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.
43. They killed the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they live there to this day.