The Sons of Judah - 1st Chronicles 4

1 Chronicles 4:1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and  Hur, and Shobal. 

1 Chronicles 4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat  Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad. These are the  families of the Zorathites. 

1 Chronicles 4:3 And these were of the  father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the  name of their sister was Hazelelponi: 

1 Chronicles 4:4 And Penuel  the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These  are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of  Bethlehem.  

1 Chronicles 4:5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives,  Helah and Naarah. 

1 Chronicles 4:6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam,  and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the  sons of Naarah. 

1 Chronicles 4:7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth,  and Jezoar, and Ethnan. 

1 Chronicles 4:8 And Coz begat Anub, and  Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.  

1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren:  and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I  bare him with sorrow. 

1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God  of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed,  and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me,  and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not  grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.  

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1 Chronicles 4:11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir,  which was the father of Eshton. 

1 Chronicles 4:12 And Eshton begat  Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash.  These are the men of Rechah. 

1 Chronicles 4:13 And the  sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of  Othniel; Hathath. 

1 Chronicles 4:14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and  Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim;  for they were craftsmen. 

1 Chronicles 4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of  Elah, even Kenaz. 

1 Chronicles 4:16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph,  and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. 

1 Chronicles 4:17 And the sons of Ezra  were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she  bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of  Eshtemoa. 

1 Chronicles 4:18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the  father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and  Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of  Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. 

1 Chronicles 4:19  And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the  father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the  Maachathite. 

1 Chronicles 4:20 And the sons of Shimon were,  Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of  Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.   

1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the  father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the  families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the  house of Ashbea, 

1 Chronicles 4:22 And Jokim, and the men of  Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in  Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things.  

1 Chronicles 4:23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among  plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his  work.  

1 Chronicles 4:24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin,  Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: 

1 Chronicles 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam  his son, Mishma his son. 

1 Chronicles 4:26 And the sons of Mishma;  Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. 

1 Chronicles 4:27  And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his  brethren had not many children, neither did all their family  multiply, like to the children of Judah. 

1 Chronicles 4:28 And they  dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 

1 Chronicles 4:29  And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 

1 Chronicles 4:30 And at  Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 

1 Chronicles 4:31 And at Bethmarcaboth,  and Hazar-susim, and at Beth- birei, and at  Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.  

1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon,  and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: 

1 Chronicles 4:33 And all their  villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal.  These were their habitations, and their genealogy. 

1 Chronicles 4:34  And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of  Amaziah, 

1 Chronicles 4:35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the  son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 

1 Chronicles 4:36 And Elioenai, and  Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and  Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 

1 Chronicles 4:37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi,  the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the  son of Shemaiah; 

1 Chronicles 4:38 These mentioned by their names  were princes in their families: and the house of their  fathers increased greatly.  

1 Chronicles 4:39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even  unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their  flocks. 

1 Chronicles 4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the  land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of  Ham had dwelt there of old. 

1 Chronicles 4:41 And these written by  name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and  smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there,  and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their  rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.  

1 Chronicles 4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon,  five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their  captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel,  the sons of Ishi. 

1 Chronicles 4:43 And they smote the rest of the  Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.  KJV

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