1 Chronicles 4
1NOW the sons of Juda were Phares and Esrom, Charmi and Or, Soubal
2and Rada his son. And Soubal begot Jeth; and Jeth begot Achimas and Laad. These are the families of the Arathites.
3And these are the sons of Aitam—Jezrael and Jesman and Jebdas, and the name of their sister was Eselebbon;
4and Phanuel the father of Geddor; and Jaser the father of Osan. These were the sons of Or who was the first-born of Ephratha and the father of Baithalaem.
5Asur also the father of Thekoe had two wives Aoda and Thoada;
6and Aoda bore to him Ochaia and Ephal and Thaiman and Aasther. All these were the children of Aoda.
7And the children of Thoada were Sereth and Saar and Esthanam.
8And Koe begot Enob and Sabatha. And these are the families of brother Rechab son of Jarin.
9Igabes indeed was the most honourable of his brethren. Now his mother had called his name Igabes, saying, I have brought him forth Os-gabes [with sorrow].
10And Igabes called on the God of Israel, and said, If Thou wilt bless me with blessings and enlarge my borders, let Thy hand be with me, and give me knowledge that I may not debase myself. Accordingly God gave him all that he asked.
11And Chaleb the father of Ascha begot Machir. He was the father of Assathon
12and begot Bethraian and Bessea and Thaiman the father of Poleosnaas the brother of Eselom the Kenezite. These were men of Rechab.
13And the sons of Kenez were Gothoniel and Saraia. And the sons of Gothoniel, Athath.
14And Manathi begot Gophera. And Saraia begot Jobab, the father of the Ageaddairites, for they were carpenters.
15And the sons of Chaleb, son of Jephonne, were Er, Ada and Noom. And the sons of Ada, Kenez,
16and the sons of Aleel, Zib and Zepha and Thiria and Eserel.
17And the sons of Esri, Jether, Morad and Apher and Jamon. And Jether begot Maron and Semei and Jesba the father of Esthaimon.
18And his wife Adia bore Jared the father of Gedor and Aber the father of Sochon and Chetiel the father of Zamon. And these were the sons of Betthia, a daughter of Pharao whom Morad took,
19and the sons of his [other] wife Iduia the sister of Nachaim, the father of Keila: Garmi and Esthaimon the Nochathite.
20And the sons of Semon were Amnon and Ana, son Phana and Inon. And the sons of Sei were Zoan and the Zoabites.
21The sons of Selom son of Juda were Er, the father of Lechab, and Laada father of Marisa. And the genealogies of the subordinate families of Ephrathabak, belonged to the house of Esoba,
22namely Joakim and the men of Chozeba, and Joas and Saraph who dwelt in Moab. Now Abederim Athukiim led them away.
23These were potters who dwelt at Ataim and Gadira with the king, and having risen to eminence in his reign they settled there.
24The sons of Symeon were Namuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zares, Saul;
25Salem his son; Mabasam his son; Masma his son;
26Amuel his son; Zakehur his son; Semei his son.
27Semei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but their brethren had not many children; nor did all their families abound like the children of Juda.
28Now they dwelt in Bersabee and Molada, and in Esersaul
29and in Balaa, and in Aisem and in Tholad,
30and in Bathuel and in Erma, and in Sikelag,
31and in Baithmarimoth and Hemisuseosin, and the house of Baruseorim. These were their cities till the reign of king David.
32And the folds for their flocks were Aitan and En, Remnon and Thokka, and Aisar, five cities
33with all the villages and pastures around these cities even to Baal. This was their possession and this their distribution into communities: including
34Mosabab and Jemoloch, and Josia son of Amasia,
35and Joel and Jehu the son of Asabia, the son of Sarau, the son of Asiel;
36and Elionai and Jokaba, and Jasuia and Asaia, and Jediel and Ismael, and Banaias
37and Zuza the son of Saphai, son of Alon, son of Jedia, son of Semri, son of Samaias.
38These were they who having branched out under the names of chiefs in their families and in their patriarchal houses, were increased to a multitude
39and spread themselves in search of pastures for their cattle, till they came to Gerara to the east of Gai, where they found pastures,
40extensive and good, for the land before them was spacious and there was peace and tranquillity. Because they who dwelt there before them were of the children of Cham,
41therefore those mentioned above came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and smote their families, even the Minaians whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them even to this day, and dwelt in their stead, because there were pastures there for their cattle.
42And from among these five hundred of the Symeonites with Phalaettia and Noadia, and Raphaia and Oziel sons of Jessi, their chiefs, went to Mount Seir
43and smote the remains of Amelek who had been left even to this time.