The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and
Shobal. {4:2} 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. {4:3} These were the sons of the father of
Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was
Hazzelelponi; {4:4} and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the
father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. {4:5} Ashhur the father of Tekoa
had two wives, Helah and Naarah. {4:6} Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and
Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
{4:7} The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. {4:8} Hakkoz
became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel
the son of Harum. {4:9} Jabez was more honorable than his brothers:
and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with
sorrow."
{4:10} Jabez called on the [1>]God[<1] of Israel, saying, "Oh that
you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand
might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be
to my sorrow!"
God granted him that which he requested. {4:11} Chelub the brother
of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
{4:12} Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and
Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. {4:13}
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
{4:14} Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the
father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
{4:15} The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam;
and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. {4:16} The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph,
and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. {4:17} The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and
Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and
Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. {4:18} His wife Yehudiyah bore Jered
the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the
father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of
Pharaoh, whom Mered took. {4:19} The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the
sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa
the Maacathite. {4:20} The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben
Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. {4:21} The
sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah
the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who
worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; {4:22} and Jokim, and the
men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and
Jashubilehem. The records are ancient. {4:23} These were the potters,
and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the
king for his work. {4:24} The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin,
Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; {4:25} Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma
his son. {4:26} The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son,
Shimei his son. {4:27} Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but
his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family
multiply like the children of Judah. {4:28} They lived at Beersheba,
and Moladah, and Hazarshual, {4:29} and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at
Tolad, {4:30} and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, {4:31} and
at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim.
These were their cities to the reign of David. {4:32} Their villages
were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; {4:33}
and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal.
These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. {4:34}
Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, {4:35} and Joel,
and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
{4:36} and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, {4:37} and Ziza the son of Shiphi,
the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of
Shemaiah--{4:38} these mentioned by name were princes in their
families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly. {4:39} They
went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to
seek pasture for their flocks. {4:40} They found fat pasture and good,
and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived
there before were of Ham. {4:41} 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 destroyed them utterly to this day, and
lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their
flocks. {4:42} 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. {4:43} They
struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there
to this day.
{5:1} The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the
firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright
was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy
is not to be reckoned after the birthright. {5:2} For Judah prevailed
above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was
Joseph's:) {5:3} the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch,
and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {5:4} The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his
son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, {5:5} Micah his son, Reaiah his son,
Baal his son, {5:6} Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of
Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. {5:7}
His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their
generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, {5:8} and
Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in
Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon: {5:9} and eastward he lived even to
the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their
livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. {5:10} In the days of
Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and
they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
{5:11} The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan
to Salecah: {5:12} Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai,
and Shaphat in Bashan. {5:13} Their brothers of their fathers' houses:
Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and
Eber, seven. {5:14} These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri,
the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of
Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; {5:15} Ahi the son of
Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses. {5:16} They
lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of
Sharon, as far as their borders. {5:17} All these were reckoned by
genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of
Jeroboam king of Israel. {5:18} The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear
buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were
forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go
forth to war. {5:19} They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and
Naphish, and Nodab. {5:20} They were helped against them, and the
Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them;
for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them,
because they put their trust in him. {5:21} They took away their
livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred
fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred
thousand. {5:22} For there fell many slain, because the war was of
God. They lived in their place until the captivity. {5:23} The
children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they
increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
{5:24} These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and
Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel,
mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
{5:25} They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played
the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God
destroyed before them. {5:26} The God of Israel stirred up the spirit
of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of
Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah,
and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
{6:1} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {6:2} The sons
of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. {6:3} The children of
Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:4} Eleazar became the father of
Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, {6:5} and Abishua
became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi, {6:6}
and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father
of Meraioth, {6:7} Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah
became the father of Ahitub, {6:8} and Ahitub became the father of
Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz, {6:9} and Ahimaaz
became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of
Yochanan, {6:10} and Yochanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is
who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in
Jerusalem), {6:11} and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and
Amariah became the father of Ahitub, {6:12} and Ahitub became the
father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shallum, {6:13} and
Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of
Azariah, {6:14} and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah
became the father of Jehozadak; {6:15} Jehozadak went into captivity,
when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar. {6:16} The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
{6:17} These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
{6:18} The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel. {6:19} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the
families of the Levites according to their fathers' households. {6:20}
Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, {6:21} Joah
his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. {6:22} The
sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
{6:23} Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
{6:24} Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his
son. {6:25} The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. {6:26} As for
Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
{6:27} Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. {6:28} The
sons of Samuel: the firstborn Joel, and the second Abijah. {6:29} The
sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
{6:30} Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. {6:31} These
are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the
LORD, after that the ark had rest. {6:32} They ministered with song
before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built
the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office
according to their order. {6:33} These are those who waited, and their
sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of
Joel, the son of Samuel, {6:34} the son of Elkanah, the son of
Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, {6:35} the son of Zuph,
the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, {6:36} the
son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of
Zephaniah, {6:37} the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, {6:38} the son of Izhar, the son of
Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. {6:39} His brother Asaph,
who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son
of Shimea, {6:40} the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of
Malchijah, {6:41} the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of
Adaiah, {6:42} the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
{6:43} the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. {6:44}
On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of
Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, {6:45} the son of
Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, {6:46} the son of
Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, {6:47} the son of Mahli, the
son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. {6:48} Their
brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the
tabernacle of God's house. {6:49} But Aaron and his sons offered on
the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the
work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel,
according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. {6:50}
These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son,
Abishua his son, {6:51} Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
{6:52} Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, {6:53} Zadok
his son, Ahimaaz his son. {6:54} Now these are their dwelling places
according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron,
of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
{6:55} to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs
around it; {6:56} but the fields of the city, and its villages, they
gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {6:57} To the sons of Aaron they
gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and
Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, {6:58} and Hilen with its
suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, {6:59} and Ashan with its suburbs,
and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; {6:60} and out of the tribe of
Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and
Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families
were thirteen cities. {6:61} To the rest of the sons of Kohath were
given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe,
the half of Manasseh, ten cities. {6:62} To the sons of Gershom,
according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of
the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the
tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. {6:63} To the sons of
Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the
tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of
Zebulun, twelve cities. {6:64} The children of Israel gave to the
Levites the cities with their suburbs. {6:65} They gave by lot out of
the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin,
these cities which are mentioned by name. {6:66} Some of the families
of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of
Ephraim. {6:67} They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the
hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
{6:68} and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
{6:69} and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs;
{6:70} and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs,
and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of
Kohath. {6:71} To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of
the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and
Ashtaroth with its suburbs; {6:72} and out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, {6:73} and Ramoth
with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; {6:74} and out of the
tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,
{6:75} and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; {6:76}
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs,
and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. {6:77}
To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the
tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
{6:78} and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the
Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the
wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, {6:79} and
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; {6:80} and
out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and
Mahanaim with its suburbs, {6:81} and Heshbon with its suburbs, and
Jazer with its suburbs.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:10} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
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