The First Book of the Chronicles

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

The sons of Judah [were] Er, Onan, and Shelah; [these] three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so He put him to death.

And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

The sons of Perez [were] Hezron and Hamul.

And the sons of Zerah [were] Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.

And the son of Carmi [was] Achar, the troubler of Israel, who violated the ban.

And the son of Ethan [was] Azariah.

Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him [were] Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

And Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah;

Nahshon became the father of Salma, Salma became the father of Boaz,

Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;

and Jesse became the father of Eliab his first-born, then Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

and their sisters [were] Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah [were] Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.

And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Now Caleb the son of Hezron had sons by Azubah [his] wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

And Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.

Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

And Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

But Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, [even] sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

Now the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron [were] Ram the first-born, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem, [and] Ahijah.

And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

And the sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai [were] Nadab and Abishur.

And the name of Abishur's wife [was] Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

And the sons of Nadab [were] Seled and Appaim, and Seled died without sons.

And the son of Appaim [was] Ishi. And the son of Ishi [was] Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan [was] Ahlai.

And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai [were] Jether and Jonathan, and Jether died without sons.

And the sons of Jonathan [were] Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha.

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant in marriage, and she bore him Attai.

And Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,

and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,

and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,

and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,

and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, [were] Mesha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph; and his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron.

And the sons of Hebron [were] Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.

And Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon [was] the father of Bethzur.

And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

And the sons of Jahdai [were] Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsah.

These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, [were] Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

Salma the father of Bethlehem [and] Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,

and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

The sons of Salma [were] Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.