# 1 Chronicles 4

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###### v1 
The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 

###### v2 
Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. 

###### v3 
These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi. 

###### v4 
Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 

###### v5 
Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 

###### v6 
Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 

###### v7 
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 

###### v8 
Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. 

###### v9 
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow." 

###### v10 
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" God granted him that which he requested. 

###### v11 
Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 

###### v12 
Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. 

###### v13 
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. 

###### v14 
Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. 

###### v15 
The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz. 

###### v16 
The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 

###### v17 
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 

###### v18 
His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 

###### v19 
The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 

###### v20 
The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. 

###### v21 
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 

###### v22 
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. 

###### v23 
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work. 

###### v24 
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 

###### v25 
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son. 

###### v26 
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 

###### v27 
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, and all their family didn't multiply like the children of Judah. 

###### v28 
They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, 

###### v29 
at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, 

###### v30 
at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, 

###### v31 
at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David's reign. 

###### v32 
Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 

###### v33 
and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy. 

###### v34 
Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, 

###### v35 
Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 

###### v36 
Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 

###### v37 
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-- 

###### v38 
these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers' houses increased greatly. 

###### v39 
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 

###### v40 
They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham. 

###### v41 
These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents and the Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 

###### v42 
Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 

###### v43 
They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

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