The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Adam, Seth, Enosh, {1:2} Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, {1:3} Enoch,
Methuselah, Lamech, {1:4} Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {1:5} The sons
of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras. {1:6} The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath,
and Togarmah. {1:7} The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim,
and Rodanim. {1:8} The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and
Canaan. {1:9} The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and
Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. {1:10} Cush
became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
{1:11} Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim,
and Naphtuhim, {1:12} and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (where the
Philistines came from), and Caphtorim. {1:13} Canaan became the father
of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, {1:14} and the Jebusite, and the
Amorite, and the Girgashite, {1:15} and the Hivite, and the Arkite,
and the Sinite, {1:16} and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite. {1:17} The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad,
and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. {1:18}
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father
of Eber. {1:19} To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was
Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name
was Joktan. {1:20} Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph,
and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, {1:21} and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
{1:22} and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, {1:23} and Ophir, and
Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. {1:24} Shem,
Arpachshad, Shelah, {1:25} Eber, Peleg, Reu, {1:26} Serug, Nahor,
Terah, {1:27} Abram (the same is Abraham). {1:28} The sons of Abraham:
Isaac, and Ishmael. {1:29} These are their generations: the firstborn
of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {1:30}
Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, {1:31} Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. {1:32} The sons of Keturah,
Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.
{1:33} The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida,
and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. {1:34} Abraham became
the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel. {1:35} The
sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. {1:36}
The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and
Timna, and Amalek. {1:37} The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah. {1:38} The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon,
and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. {1:39} The sons of Lotan:
Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. {1:40} The sons of
Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of
Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. {1:41} The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of
Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. {1:42} The sons of
Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.
{1:43} Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before
there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of
Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. {1:44} Bela died, and
Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. {1:45} Jobab
died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
{1:46} Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was
Avith. {1:47} Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
{1:48} Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his
place. {1:49} Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his place. {1:50} Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and
the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. {1:51} Hadad died. The
chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, {1:52}
chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, {1:53} chief Kenaz, chief
Teman, chief Mibzar, {1:54} chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the
chiefs of Edom.
{2:1} These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, {2:2} Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. {2:3} The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and
Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the
Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of [1>]the
LORD;[<1] and he killed him. {2:4} Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him
Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. {2:5} The sons of
Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. {2:6} The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan,
and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. {2:7} The sons
of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in
the devoted thing. {2:8} The sons of Ethan: Azariah. {2:9} The sons
also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and
Chelubai. {2:10} Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab
became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; {2:11}
and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of
Boaz, {2:12} and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the
father of Jesse; {2:13} and Jesse became the father of his firstborn
Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, {2:14} Nethanel
the fourth, Raddai the fifth, {2:15} Ozem the sixth, David the
seventh; {2:16} and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons
of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. {2:17} Abigail bore
Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. {2:18} Caleb
the son of Hezron became the father of [children] of Azubah [his]
wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and
Ardon. {2:19} Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him
Hur. {2:20} Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of
Bezalel. {2:21} Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the
father of Gilead, whom he took [as wife] when he was sixty years old;
and she bore him Segub. {2:22} Segub became the father of Jair, who
had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. {2:23} Geshur and Aram
took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even
sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
{2:24} After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah
Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. {2:25} The sons of
Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah,
and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. {2:26} Jerahmeel had another wife, whose
name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. {2:27} The sons of Ram
the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. {2:28} The
sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and
Abishur. {2:29} The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she
bore him Ahban, and Molid. {2:30} The sons of Nadab: Seled, and
Appaim; but Seled died without children. {2:31} The sons of Appaim:
Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. {2:32}
The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and
Jether died without children. {2:33} The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and
Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. {2:34} Now Sheshan had no
sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name
was Jarha. {2:35} Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as
wife; and she bore him Attai. {2:36} Attai became the father of
Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, {2:37} and Zabad became
the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, {2:38} and
Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
{2:39} and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the
father of Eleasah, {2:40} and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and
Sismai became the father of Shallum, {2:41} and Shallum became the
father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. {2:42}
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn,
who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of
Hebron. {2:43} The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and
Shema. {2:44} Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam;
and Rekem became the father of Shammai. {2:45} The son of Shammai was
Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. {2:46} Ephah, Caleb's
concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the
father of Gazez. {2:47} The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and
Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. {2:48} Maacah, Caleb's
concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. {2:49} She bore also Shaaph the
father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of
Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. {2:50} These were the
sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the
father of Kiriath Jearim, {2:51} Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph
the father of Beth Gader. {2:52} Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim
had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. {2:53} The families of Kiriath
Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the
Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. {2:54}
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab,
and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. {2:55} The families of
scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the
Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of
the house of Rechab.
{3:1} Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in
Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second,
Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; {3:2} the third, Absalom the son
of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah
the son of Haggith; {3:3} the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth,
Ithream by Eglah his wife: {3:4} six were born to him in Hebron; and
there he reigned seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years; {3:5} and these were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the
daughter of Ammiel; {3:6} and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
{3:7} and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, {3:8} and Elishama, and
Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. {3:9} All these were the sons of David,
besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. {3:10}
Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat
his son, {3:11} Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, {3:12}
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, {3:13} Ahaz his son,
Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, {3:14} Amon his son, Josiah his
son. {3:15} The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Yochanan, the second
Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. {3:16} The sons of
Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. {3:17} The sons of
Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, {3:18} and Malchiram, and
Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. {3:19} The
sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel:
Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; {3:20} and
Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed, five.
{3:21} The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of
Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of
Shecaniah. {3:22} The sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of
Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat,
six. {3:23} The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam,
three. {3:24} The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and
Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Yochanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:3} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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