The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 04
1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron,
Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the
father of Jahath; and Jahath became the
father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the
families of the Zorathites.
3 These were the sons of the father of
Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The
name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and
Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the
sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the
father of Bethlehem.
5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two
wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher,
Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the
sons of Naarah.
7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar,
and Ethnan.
8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub,
Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the
son of Harum.
9 Jabez was more honorable than his
brothers. His mother named him Jabez,†
saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
10 Jabez called on the God‡ of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed,
and enlarge my border! May your hand be
with me, and may you keep me from evil,
that I may not cause pain!”
God granted him that which he requested.
11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became
the father of Mehir, who was the father of
Eshton.
12 Eshton became the father of Beth
Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of
Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.§
14 Meonothai became the father of
Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father
of Joab the father of Ge Harashim, for they
were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah:
Kenaz.
16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah,
Tiria, and Asarel.
17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered,
Epher, and Jalon; and Mered’s wife bore
Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father
of Eshtemoa.
18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the
father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco,
and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These
are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of
Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the
sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah
the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah,
Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi:
Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah the son ofJudah: Er
the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of
Mareshah, and the families of the house of
those who worked fine linen, of the house
of Ashbea;
22 and Jokim, and the menof Cozeba, and
Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in
Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records
are ancient.
23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived
there with the king for his work.
24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin,
Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and
Mishma his son.
26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his
son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six
daughters; but his brothers didn’t have
many children, and all their family didn’t
multiply like the children of Judah.
28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah,
Hazarshual,
29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at
Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were
their cities until David’s reign.
32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
33 and all their villages that were around
the same cities, as far as Baal. These were
their settlements, and they kept their genealogy.
34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of
Amaziah,
35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son
of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of
Allon, the son ofJedaiah, the son of Shimri,
the son of Shemaiah—
38 these mentioned by name were
princes in their families. Their fathers’
houses increased greatly.
39 They went to the entrance of Gedor,
even to the east side of the valley, to seek
pasture for their flocks.
40 They found rich, good pasture, and the
land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful,
for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
41 These written by name came in the
days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck
their tents and the Meunim who were
found there; and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place,
because there was pasture there for their
flocks.
42 Some of them, even of the sons of
Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount
Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah,
Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of
Ishi.
43 They struck the remnant of the
Amalekites who escaped, and have lived
there to this day.