1 Chronicles 3-5

21st Century King James Version

3 Now these were the sons of David who were born unto him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess;

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

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

⁴ These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

⁵ And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;

⁶ Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

⁷ and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

⁸ and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

⁹ These were all the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.

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

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

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

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

¹⁴ Amon his son, Josiah his son.

¹⁵ And the sons of Josiah were the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

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

¹⁷ And the sons of Jeconiah: Assir, Shealtiel his son,

¹⁸ Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

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

²⁰ and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.

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

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

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

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

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

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

³ And these were by the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi;

⁴ and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

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

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

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

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

⁹ And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez [that is, Sorrowful], saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”

¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my borders, and that Thine hand might be with me and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!” And God granted him that which he requested.

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

¹² And Eshton begot Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Recah.

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

¹⁴ and Meonothai, who begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab, the father of the inhabitants of the valley of Charashim [that is, Craftsmen], for they were craftsmen.

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

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

¹⁷ And the sons of Ezrah were Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

¹⁸ And his wife Jehudijah [or, the Jewess] bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took,

¹⁹ and the sons of his wife Hodiah [or Jehudiiah, mentioned before] the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

²⁰ And the sons of Shimon were Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth, and Benzoheth.

²¹ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who wrought fine linen of the house of Ashbea;

²² and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.

²³ These were the potters and those who dwelt among plants and hedges; there they dwelt with the king for his work.

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

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

²⁶ And the sons of Mishma: Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

²⁷ And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.

²⁸ And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

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

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

³¹ and at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.

³² And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,

³³ and all their villages that were round about the same cities as far as Baal. These were their habitations and their genealogy.

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

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

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

³⁷ and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah —

³⁸ these mentioned by their names were princes in their families; and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

³⁹ And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

⁴⁰ And they found lush pasture and good, and the land was wide and quiet and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

⁴¹ And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and smote their tents and the inhabitants who were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

⁴² And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

⁴³ And they smote the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

5 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

² For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and from him came the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph’s) —

³ the sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

⁴ The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

⁵ Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶ Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive; he was prince of the Reubenites.

⁷ And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah,

⁸ and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel,who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon;

⁹ and eastward he inhabited unto the entrance of the wilderness from the River Euphrates, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰ And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

¹¹ And the children of Gad dwelt opposite them in the land of Bashan to Salcah:

¹² Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

¹³ And their brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

¹⁴ These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

¹⁵ Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.

¹⁶ And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon upon their borders.

¹⁷ All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸ The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh, valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow and skillful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore who went out to the war.

¹⁹ And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.

²⁰ And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated by them, because they put their trust in Him.

²¹ And they took away their cattle, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand.

²² For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their lands until the captivity.

²³ And the children of the halftribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land; they increased from Bashan to Baalhermon and Senir, and to Mount Hermon.

²⁴ And these were the heads of the house of their fathers: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

²⁵ And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

²⁶ And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halftribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the River Gozan unto this day.