1 Chronicles 4

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1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal.
2 Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; Jahath begat Ahuma and Lagada: from their tribes Tsoryan.
3 And these were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishmaiah Idbash, and their sister, whose name was Hazelelponi,
4 Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Cush. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 And Naarah bore him Ahuzama, Hefer, Timna and Ahashfari; These were the sons of Naarah.
7 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan.
8 Kotz fathered: Anuva and Tsoveva and tribes Aharhela son Garumova.
9 Jabez was more honorable his brothers. The mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, [and] said, 'Would you bless me with your blessing, extended the limits of mine, and that thine hand might be with me, protecting [me] from evil, that it may not grieve .. And God granted [! him] that which he requested.

eleven Chelub the brother of Shuah fathered Mahir; he is the father of Eshton.
12 Eshton begat Beth-Rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash; it Rehi residents.
13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. Son of Othniel: Hafaf.
14 Meonofay begat Ophrah, and Seraiah begat Joab father of the valley of carpenters because they were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh:, Elah and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
16 Iegallelela sons: Ziph, Ziph, and Firiya Asareel.
17 The sons of Ezra: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; Jether became the father of the bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbaha, the father of Eshtemoa.
18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soho and Iekufiila, Zanaoha father. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
19 The sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa - Maachathite.
20 Simeon's sons: Amnon, Wrynn, Benhanan and Philo. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er, the father Lehi, and Laeda the father of Mareshah, and the families maketh fine linen, of the house Ashbei,
22 and Jokim, and Chozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem these are ancient things.
23 They [are] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges; the king for his work they dwelt there.

24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.
25 Shallum his son; Mibsam his son; his son Mishma.
26 The sons of Mishma his son; his son lit; his son Shimei.
27 Shimei [were] sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren the sons [were] a little bit, and all their family was not as numerous as the children of Judah.
28 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hatsarshuale,
29 in Bilge in Etseme in Foladi,
thirty at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
31 Beth-Markavofe in Hatsarsusime in Beth-Birei and Shaarime. These were their cities until the reign of David,
32 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, --pyat cities.
33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal; These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
34 Meshovav, Iamleh and Josiah his son Amassii,
35 Joel and Jehu, the son of Ioshivi, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiilova,
36 Elioenai, Jacob Ishohaiya, Asaiah, Adiel, Ishim, and Benaiah,
37 and Ziza the son of Shifiya, the son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.
38 These are named [were] princes in their families, and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
39 And they went to Gerar and to the eastern side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks;
40 and they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and safe, because before they lived there [only] a little Hamityan.
41 Then came these written by name, in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly and settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
42 Of them, even of the sons of Simeon, went to mount Seir, five hundred men: Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi [were] at their head;
43 and stoned surviving rest of the Amalekites, and live there to this day.

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