1 Chronicles 4
Berean Standard Bible · Compare translations · 1400 BC – 686 BC · Conquest & the judges · Judah alone · Tap a verse to copy, share or highlight ·
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The Descendants of Judah
1The descendants of Judah:
2Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi. 4Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah.
6Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.
7The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan, 8and Koz, who was the father of Anub and Zobebah and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum.
The Prayer of Jabez
9Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
10And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.”
And God granted the request of Jabez.
More Descendants of Judah
11Chelub the brother of Shuhah was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.
13The sons of Kenaz:
The sons of Othniel:
Hathath and Meonothai.
14Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.
The son of Elah:
16The sons of Jehallelel:
17The sons of Ezrah:
18These were the children of Pharaohʼs daughter Bithiah.
Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
19The sons of Hodiahʼs wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20The sons of Shimon:
The descendants of Ishi:
Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,
22Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.) 23These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
The Descendants of Simeon
24The descendants of Simeon:
25The sons of Shaul:
26The sons of Mishma:
27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah. 28They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, 29Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, 30Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, 31Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David. 32And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns— 33and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record:
34Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, 35Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah (son of Seraiah, son of Asiel), 36Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 37and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).
38These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly, 39and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks. 40There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
41These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks. 42And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir 43and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.
Footnotes (14)
- a v3 LXX (see also Vulgate); Hebrew These were of the father
- b v4 Or the founder; also in verses 5, 12, 14, 17, 18, and possibly elsewhere
- c v7 Alternate MT reading; the other alternate (see also Vulgate) reads Izhar.
- d v9 Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain or distress.
- e v13 Vulgate and some LXX; Hebrew does not include and Meonothai.
- f v14 Literally Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen. The Hebrew Ge-harashim means valley of craftsmen.
- g v15 Hebrew sons
- h v17 Literally she gave birth
- i v18 This statement is at the end of verse 18 in the Hebrew.
- j v18 Or Judahite
- k v19 Or were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite
- l v24 Zerah is a variant of Zohar; see Genesis 46:10and Exodus 6:15.
- m v33 Hebrew; some LXX manuscripts (see also Joshua 19:8) Baalath
- n v41 Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.