Descendants of Judah

1The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 2And Reaiah, son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the clans of the Zorathites. 3And these were sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi; 4And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

5And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 6And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 8And Hakoz (Coz or Koz) was the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, son of Harum. 9And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.” 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!” And God granted him what he requested.

11And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12And Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, 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 fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen. 15And the sons of Caleb (companion of Joshua), son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; even Kenaz.

16And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 18And his wife, Ha-jehudijah, bore Jared, the father of Gedor, Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 19And the sons of his wife, Hodiah, the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah, the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20And the sons of Shimon were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

21The sons of Shelah, son of Judah, were Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them who wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 22And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient records. 23These were the potters, and those who dwelt among plants and hedges; there they dwelt with the king for his work.

Descendants of Simeon

24The sons of Simeon were Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul; 25Shallum, his son; Mibsam, his son; Mishma, his son. 26And the sons of Mishma: Hamuel, his son; Zacchur, his son; Shimei, his son. 27And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the descendants of Judah.

28And they dwelt at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, 29At Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, 30At Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, 31At Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities up to the reign of David. 32And their villages were: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 33And all their villages that were around those cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

34And Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah, son of Amaziah, 35And Joel, and Jehu, son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, 36And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 37And Ziza, son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah; 38These mentioned by their names were leaders in their families; and the house of their fathers increased greatly. 39And they went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40And they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, and quiet, and peaceable; for those of Ham had dwelt there of old. 41And the men listed by name came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked the Hamites in their tents, and the Meunites that were also found there, and destroyed them. leaving no trace of them, as evidenced to this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42And some of them, the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi. 43And they killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.