1st Chronicles 2

CHAPTER 2

¹Forsooth the sons of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

²Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naph-tali, Gad, and Asher.

³The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him of Shua, a daughter of Canaan. And Er, the first begotten of Judah, was evil before the Lord, and the Lord killed him.

⁴And Tamar, the wife of the son of Judah, childed to him Perez, and Zerah; and all the sons of Judah were five.

⁵And the sons of Perez were Hezron, and Hamul.

⁶And the sons of Zerah were Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five altogether.

⁷The son of Carmi was Achar, that troubled Israel, and sinned in the theft of thing hallowed to the Lord.

⁸The son of Ethan was Azariah.

⁹And the sons of Hezron, that were born to him, were Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

¹⁰And Ram begat Amminadab. And Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.

¹¹And Nahshon begat Salma; of whom Boaz was born.

¹²And Boaz begat Obed; which himself begat Jesse.

¹³And Jesse begat his first son, Eliab; the second, Abinadab; the third, Shimma;

¹⁴the fourth, Nethaneel; the fifth, Raddai;

¹⁵the sixth, Ozem; the seventh, David;

¹⁶whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were three, Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

¹⁷And Abigail childed Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸And Caleb, the son of Hezron, took a wife, Azubah, by name, of whom he begat Jerioth; and his sons were Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took a wife, Ephrath, which childed Hur to him.

²⁰And Hur begat Uri; Uri begat Bezaleel.

²¹After these things Hezron entered to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her to wife , when he was of sixty years; and she childed Segub to him.

²²But also Segub begat Jair; and he had in possession three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead;

²³and he took Geshur, and Aram, the cities of Jair, and Kenath, and the towns thereof, of seventy cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

²⁴And when Hezron was dead, Caleb entered into Ephratah. And Hezron had a wife Abiah, the which childed to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵And sons were born of Jerah-meel, the first begotten of Hezron; Ram was the first begotten son of him, and then Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.

²⁶Also Jerahmeel wedded another wife, Atarah by name, that was the mother of Onam.

²⁷But and the sons of Ram, the first begotten of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

²⁸And Onam begat sons, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab, and Abishur;

²⁹and the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, that childed to him Ahban, and Molid.

³⁰And the sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim; forsooth Seled died without children.

³¹And the son of Appaim was Ishi, the which Ishi begat Sheshan; certainly Sheshan begat Ahlai.

³²And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, were Jether, and Jonathan; but Jether died without sons;

³³and Jonathan begat Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

³⁴And Sheshan had not sons, but daughters, and a servant of Egypt, Jarha by name;

³⁵and he gave his daughter to wife to Jarha, which childed Attai to him.

³⁶And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad.

³⁷Also Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed.

³⁸Obed begat Jehu, Jehu begat Azariah,

³⁹Azariah begat Helez, Helez begat Eleasah,

⁴⁰Eleasah begat Sisamai, Sisamai begat Shallum,

⁴¹Shallum begat Jekamiah, Jekamiah begat Elishama.

⁴²And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha, the first begotten son of him, that is the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.

⁴³Certainly the sons of Hebron were Korah, and Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

⁴⁴And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam; and Rekem begat Shammai.

⁴⁵The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

⁴⁶And Ephah, the secondary wife of Caleb, childed Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.

⁴⁷The sons of Jahdai were Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸Maachah, the secondary wife of Caleb, childed Sheber, and Tirhanah.

⁴⁹And Maachah also bare Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and she also engendered Sheva, the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

⁵⁰These were also the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the first begotten son of Ephratah, were Shobal, the father of Kiriathjearim;

⁵¹Salma, the father of Bethlehem; Hareph, the father of Bethgader.

⁵²And the sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriathjearim, that saw the half of [the] restings,

⁵³and was of the kindred of Kiriath-jearim, were Ithrites, and Puhites, and Shumathites, and Mishraites. Of these were born Zareathites, and Eshtaulites.

⁵⁴The sons of Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and of Netophathites, were the crowns of the house of Joab, and half of the resting of Zorites.

⁵⁵And the kindreds of scribes, dwell-ing in Jabez, singing, and sounding, and dwelling in tabernacles. These be Kenites, that came of the heat of the father of the house of Rechab.