1 Chronicles2

¹These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

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

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

⁴His daughter-in-law Tamar bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

⁵The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

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

⁷The son of Carmi was Achar, the one who brought disaster on Israel by violating the ban.

⁸The son of Ethan was Azariah.

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

¹⁰Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah;

¹¹Nahshon fathered Salma, Salma fathered Boaz,

¹²Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse;

¹³and Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab, the second, Shimea, the third,

¹⁴Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

¹⁵Ozem, the sixth, and David, the seventh.

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

¹⁷Abigail gave birth to Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether 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 to him Hur.

²⁰Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.

²¹Later, Hezron had relations with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore to him Segub.

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

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

²⁴After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore to 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 to him Ahban and Molid.

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

³¹The son of Appaim was Ishi. And the son of Ishi was Sheshan, and the son of Sheshan, 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 descendants of Jerahmeel.

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

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

³⁶Attai fathered Nathan, Nathan fathered Zabad,

³⁷Zabad fathered Ephlal, Ephlal fathered Obed,

³⁸Obed fathered Jehu, Jehu fathered Azariah,

³⁹Azariah fathered Helez, Helez fathered Eleasah,

⁴⁰Eleasah fathered Sismai, Sismai fathered Shallum,

⁴¹Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

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

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

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

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

⁴⁶Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.

⁴⁷The sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah.

⁴⁹She also gave birth to 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 sons 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.