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I Chronicles 1

¹Adam, Seth, Enosh;

²Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

³Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

⁴Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

⁵The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

⁶And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.

⁷And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

⁸The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.

⁹And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

¹¹And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim

¹²And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines).

¹³And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,

¹⁴And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,

¹⁵And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,

¹⁶And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.

¹⁷The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.

¹⁸And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

¹⁹And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

²⁰And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

²¹And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

²²And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba

²³And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

²⁴Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu,

²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah,

²⁷Abram (that is Abraham).

²⁸The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

²⁹These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

³⁰Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema,

³¹Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

³²And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

³³And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

³⁴And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

³⁵The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

³⁶The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek.

³⁷The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.

³⁸And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan.

³⁹And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

⁴⁰The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.

⁴¹The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.

⁴²The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

⁴³Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah.

⁴⁴At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.

⁴⁵At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, became king in his place.

⁴⁶And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith.

⁴⁷And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.

⁴⁸And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river became king in his place,

⁴⁹And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place.

⁵⁰And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

⁵¹And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

⁵²The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon,

⁵³The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar,

⁵⁴The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

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¹These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

²Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

³The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.

⁴And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

⁵The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

⁶And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.

⁷And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.

⁸And the son of Ethan: Azariah.

⁹And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.

¹⁰And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

¹¹And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

¹²And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,

¹³And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

¹⁴Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

¹⁵Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh;

¹⁶And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

¹⁷And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.

¹⁹And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur.

²⁰And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel.

²¹And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.

²²And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

²³And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

²⁴And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah.

²⁶And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam.

²⁷And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.

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

²⁹And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.

³⁰And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons.

³¹And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

³²And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons.

³³And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

³⁴Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha.

³⁵And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him.

³⁶And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,

³⁷And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,

³⁸And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,

³⁹And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,

⁴⁰And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum,

⁴¹And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.

⁴²And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron.

⁴³And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.

⁴⁴And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.

⁴⁵And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

⁴⁶And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

⁴⁷And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph.

⁴⁸Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,

⁴⁹And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.

⁵⁰The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,

⁵¹Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.

⁵²And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.

⁵³And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

⁵⁴The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

⁵⁵And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

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¹Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;

²The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;

³The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.

⁴He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

⁵And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;

⁶And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet

⁷And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia

⁸And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

⁹All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.

¹⁰And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

¹¹Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

¹²Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

¹³Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

¹⁴Amon his son, Josiah his son.

¹⁵And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

¹⁶And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

¹⁷And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son,

¹⁸And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

¹⁹And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

²⁰And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.

²¹And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

²²And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat, six.

²³And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.

²⁴And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven.

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¹The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.

²And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

³And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

⁴And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

⁵And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

⁶And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

⁷And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

⁸And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

⁹And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

¹⁰And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

¹¹And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

¹²And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

¹³And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

¹⁴And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

¹⁵And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.

¹⁶And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

¹⁷And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

¹⁸And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.

¹⁹And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

²⁰And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...

²¹The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;

²²And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old.

²³These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

²⁶And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

²⁷And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

²⁸And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

²⁹And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

³⁰And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

³¹And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.

³²And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns;

³³And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

³⁴And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,

³⁵And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

³⁶And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah,

³⁷And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

³⁸These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number.

³⁹And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

⁴⁰And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

⁴¹And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

⁴²And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.

⁴³And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.