1 Chronicles Chapter 4    

¹The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
  ²Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
  ³These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
  ⁴And Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, a father of Bethlehem.
  ⁵Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
  ⁶Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
  ⁷The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.
  ⁸Hakkoz fathered Anub and Zobebah and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
 

⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
 

¹⁰Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless, yes, bless me, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!” God granted him what he requested.
 

¹¹Chelub the brother of Shuhah fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton.
  ¹²Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
  ¹³The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
  ¹⁴Meonothai fathered Ophrah and Seraiah fathered Joab the father of Ge-harashim,^a for they were craftsmen.
  ¹⁵The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
  ¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
  ¹⁷The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon, and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
  ¹⁸His wife, from Judah, bore Jered the father of Gedor and Heber the father of Soco and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh whom Mered took.
  ¹⁹The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
  ²⁰The sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
 

²¹The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah and the families of the house of fine linen workers at Beth-ashbea.
  ²²and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem (now the records are ancient).
  ²³These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there doing the king’s work.
 

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul.
  ²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
  ²⁶The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
 

²⁷Shimei had 16 sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
  ²⁸They lived 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 Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
  ³²Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan; five cities;
  ³³and all their villages that were around the same cities, as far as the city of Baal. These were their habitations, and they kept their own genealogical records.
 

³⁴Meshobab, 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 mentioned by name were leaders in their families, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
  ³⁹They went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
  ⁴⁰They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide and quiet and peaceful. Those who lived there before were descended from Ham,
  ⁴¹but these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck down their tents and the Meunites who were present there, and they devoted them to destruction to this day. And they lived in their place because there was pasture there for their flocks.
  ⁴²Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, 500 men, went to Mount Seir, having for their commanders Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
  ⁴³They struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and then they lived there to this day.