1 Chronicles 4
1 And the sons of Juda; Phares, Esrom,
and Charmi, and Or, Subal, 2 and Rada
his son; and Subal begot Jeth; and Jeth begot Achimai, and Laad: these
are the generations of the Arathites.
3 And these
are the sons of Ætam; Jezrael and Jesman, and Jebdas:
and their sister's name was Eselebbon.
4 And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and
Jazer the father of Osan: these are the sons of Or,
the first-born of Ephratha, the father of Bæthalaen.
5 And Asur the father of Thecoe had
two wives, Aoda and Thoada. 6 And Aoda
bore to him Ochaia, and Ephal, and Thæman, and Aasther: all these
were the sons of Aoda.
7 And the sons of Thoada; Sereth, and
Saar, and Esthanam. 8 And Coe begot
Enob, and Sabatha, and the progeny of the brother of Rechab, the son of Jarin.
9 And Igabes was more famous than his
brethren; and his mother called his name Igabes, saying, I have born as a
sorrowful one. 10 And Igabes called
on the God of Israel, saying, O that thou wouldest indeed bless me, and
enlarge my coasts, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest
make me know that thou wilt not grieve me! And God granted him all that he
asked.
11 And Chaleb the father of Ascha
begot Machir; he was the father of Assathon.
12 He begot Bathraias, and Besseë,
and Thæman the founder of the city of Naas the brother of Eselom the Kenezite:
these were the men of Rechab.
13 And the sons of Kenez; Gothoniel,
and Saraia: and the sons of Gothoniel; Athath.
14 And Manathi begot Gophera: and
Saraia begot Jobab, the father of Ageaddair, for they were artificers.
15 And the sons of Chaleb the son of
Jephonne; Er, Ada, and Noom: and the sons of Ada, Kenez.
16 And the sons of Aleel, Zib, and
Zepha, and Thiria, and Eserel. 17 And
the sons of Esri; Jether, Morad, and Apher, and Jamon: and Jether begot Maron,
and Semei, and Jesba the father of Esthæmon.
18 And his wife, that
is Adia, bore Jared the father of Gedor, and Aber the
father of Sochon, and Chetiel the father of Zamon: and these
are the sons of Betthia the daughter of Pharao, whom
Mored took. 19 And the sons of the
wife of Iduia the sister of Nachaim the father of Keila; Garmi, and Esthæmon
the Nochathite. 20 And the sons of
Semon; Amnon, and Ana the son of Phana, and Inon: and the sons of Sei, Zoan,
and the sons of Zoab.
21 The sons of Selom the son of Juda;
Er the father of Lechab, and Laada the father of Marisa, and the offspring of
the family of Ephrathabac belonging to the house of
Esoba. 22 And Joakim, and the men of
Chozeba, and Joas, and Saraph, who dwelt in Moab, and he changed their names
to Abederin and Athukiim. 23 These
are the potters who dwelt in Ataim and Gadira with
the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and dwelt there.
24 The sons of Semeon; Namuel, and
Jamin, Jarib, Zares, Saul: 25 Salem
his son, Mabasam his son, Masma his son:
26 Amuel his son, Sabud his son,
Zacchur his son, Semei his son.
27 Semei
had sixteen sons, and six daughters; and his brethren
had not many sons, neither did all their families multiply as the sons of
Juda. 28 And they dwelt in Bersabee,
and Molada, and in Esersual, 29 and
in Balaa, and in Æsem, and in Tholad,
30 and in Bathuel, and in Herma, and
in Sikelag, 31 and in Bæthmarimoth,
and Hemisuseosin, and the house of Baruseorim: these
were their cities until
the time of king David.
32 And their villages
were Ætan, and En, Remnon, and Thocca, and Æsar, five
cities. 33 And all their villages
were round about these cities, as far as Baal: this
was their possession, and their distribution.
34 And Mosobab, and Jemoloch, and
Josia the son of Amasia; 35 and Joel,
and Jeu the son of Asabia, the son of Sarau, the son of Asiel;
36 and Elionai, and Jocaba, and
Jasuia, and Asaia, and Jediel, and Ismael, and Banaias;
37 and Zuza the son of Saphai, the
son of Alon, the son of Jedia, the son of Semri, the son of Samaias.
38 These went by the names of princes
in their families, and they increased abundantly in their fathers' households.
39 And they went till they came to
Gerara, to the east of Gai, to seek pasture for their cattle.
40 And they found abundant and good
pastures, and the land before them was wide, and
there was peace and quietness; for
there were some of the children of Cham who dwelt
there before. 41 And these who are
written by name came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and they smote the
people's houses, and the Minæans whom they found there, and utterly destroyed
them until this day: and they dwelt in their place, because
there was pasture there for their cattle.
42 And some of them,
even of the sons of Symeon, went to mount Seir,
even five hundred men; and Phalaettia, and Noadia,
and Raphaia, and Oziel, sons of Jesi, were their
rulers. 43 And they smote the remnant
that were left of Amalec, until this day.