1 Chronicles 2 - Modern English Version

Sons of Israel

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

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

From Judah to David

³ The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah: These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. Now Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and He put him to death.

⁴ Then Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah for him. In all, Judah had five sons.

⁵ The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁶ The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, and Dara, five of them in all.

⁷ The sons of Karmi were Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in regard to the ban.

⁸ The son of Ethan was Azariah.

⁹ Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Kelubai.

Sons of Ram

¹⁰ Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, a leader of the sons of Judah.

¹¹ Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

¹² Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.

¹³ Now Jesse fathered his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

¹⁴ Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

¹⁶ their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three in all.

¹⁷ Abigail bore Amasa: the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Sons of Caleb

¹⁸ Caleb the son of Hezron had children with his wife Azubah and with Jerioth. These are her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹ Now Azubah died, and Caleb took Ephrath as a wife. She bore Hur for him.

²⁰ Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.

²¹ Afterward Hezron had relations with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as a wife when he was sixty years old, and she bore Segub for him.

²² Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

²³ He took Geshur and Aram, the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.

²⁴ After the death of Hezron in Caleb Ephrathah, Hezron’s wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

Sons of Jerahmeel

²⁵ Now the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

²⁶ Jerahmeel also had another wife. Her name was Atarah, and she was the mother of Onam.

²⁷ The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

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

²⁹ The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail. She bore him Ahban and Molid.

³⁰ The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim, but Seled died without children.

³¹ The son of Appaim was Ishi. The son of Ishi was Sheshan, and the son of Sheshan was Ahlai.

³² The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether and Jonathan, but Jether died without children.

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

³⁴ Now Sheshan had no children except daughters, but he did have a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

³⁵ Sheshan gave one of his daughters to Jarha his servant as a wife, and she bore him Attai.

³⁶ Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.

³⁷ Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.

³⁸ Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah.

³⁹ Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah.

⁴⁰ Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum.

⁴¹ Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

Caleb’s Clans

⁴² Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

⁴³ The sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

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

⁴⁵ The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

⁴⁶ Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez, and Haran fathered Gazez.

⁴⁷ The sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸ Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

⁴⁹ She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Makbenah, and the father of Gibea. The daughter of Caleb was Aksah.

⁵⁰ These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

⁵¹ Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

⁵² Now sons were born to Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh and half of the Manahathites.

⁵³ The families of Kiriath-jearim were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites went forth.

⁵⁴ The sons of Salma were Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

⁵⁵ The families of the scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rekab.