am the Jezreelitess; the second, of [Arnan]: Obadiah; the sons of Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; [Obadiah]: Shecaniah. 22And the 2the third, Absalom the son of Maacah sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the daughter of Talmai king of Ge- the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and shur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Haggith; the fifth, Shephatiah of Shaphat, six. 23 And the sons of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and his wife. Six were born unto him in Azrikam, three. And the sons of Hebron; and there he reigned seven Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and years and six months; and in Jerusalem Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, he reigned thirty and three years. and Delaiah, and Anani, seven. 4 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet; 7and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia; and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. All these were the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. 10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam; Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son; "Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son; 12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son; 13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son; 14Amon his son, Josiah his son. 15And the sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. 17 And the sons of Jeconiah-the same is Assir Shealtiel his son; 18and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; 20and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five. And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of [Jeshaiah]: Rephaiah; the sons of [Rephaiah]: Arnan; the sons 21 and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. And these were [the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazlelponi; and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur the first-born of Ephrath, the father of Beth-lehem. And And 5And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. And Naarah bore him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Timeni, and Ahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. the sons of Helah were Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan. And Koz begot Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.' 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying: 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Thy hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest work deliverance from evil, that it may not pain me!' And God granted him that which he requested. 11 And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the father of rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. Eshton. 12And Eshton begot Beth- his son. 26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur 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 to the children of Judah. 13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath. 14And Meonothai begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen. 15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah: Kenaz. 16And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa-18and his wife Hajehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoahand these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth. 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual; 29and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad; 3oand at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag; and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. 32And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. 34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah; 35and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel; and 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 princes in their families; and their fathers' houses increased greatly. 39And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they that dwelt there aforetime were of Ham. 41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found 24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and there, and destroyed them utterly, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25Shal- unto this day, and dwelt in their lum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma stead; because there was pasture there 21The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Ladah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 22and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And the records are ancient. 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work. That is, The valley of craftsmen. for their flocks. 42And 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. 43And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and dwelt there unto this day. 5 And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel-for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, yet not so that he was to be reckoned in the genealogy as first-born. 2For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came he that is the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son; "Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son; "Beerah his son, whom Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive; he was prince of the Reubenites. And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah, and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon; and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates; because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. 10And 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 land east of Gilead. 11And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah: 12Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan; 13and their brethren of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. 14These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jehishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; 15Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses. 16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in the towns thereof, and in all the open lands of the plain, upon their borders. 17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 18The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, as many as were valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war. 19And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 20And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated of them, because they put their trust in Him. "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 souls of men a hundred thousand. 22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity. 23 And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon, where they in creased. And these were the heads away Judah and Jerusalem by the of their fathers' houses: Epher, and hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and 6 The sons of Levi: Gershom, KoJeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. 25 And they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day. hath, and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni, and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 4The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses. 5Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son; 6Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 14The sons of Merari: Mahli; Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son; 15Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. "The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son; Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son; Tahath his 27The sons of Levi: Gershon, son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, Kohath, and Merari. 28And the sons and Shaul his son. 10And the sons of of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and He- Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. "As bron, and Uzziel. 29 And the children for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah: of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Zophai his son, and Nahath his son; Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: 12Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ith- Elkanah his son. 13And the sons of amar. 30 Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phin- Samuel: the first-born Vashni; then ehas begot Abishua; and Abish- Abiah. ua begot Bukki, and Bukki begot Uzzi; 32and Uzzi begot Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begot Meraioth; 33Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah_begot Ahitub; and Ahitub begot Zadok, 16And these are they whom David and Zadok begot Ahimaaz; 35and set over the service of song in the Ahimaaz begot Azariah, and Azariah house of the LORD, after that the ark begot Johanan; 36and Johanan begot had rest. 17And they ministered with Azariah-he it is that executed the song before the tabernacle of the tent priest's office in the house that Sol- of meeting, until Solomon had built omon built in Jerusalem-37and Aza- the house of the LORD in Jerusalem; riah begot Amariah, and Amariah and they took their station at their begot Ahitub; 38and Ahitub begot service according to their order. 18And Zadok, and Zadok begot Shallum; these are they that took their station, 39and Shallum begot Hilkiah, and and their sons. Of the sons of the Hilkiah begot Azariah; 40and Azariah Kohathites: Heman the singer, the begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot son of Joel, the son of Samuel; 19the Jehozadak; and Jehozadak went son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the into captivity, when the LORD carried son of Eliel, the son of Toah; 20the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and of Mahath, the son of Amasai; 21the son the open land round about it; but of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of the fields of the city, and the villages Azariah, the son of Zephaniah; "the son thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Jephunneh. 42And to the sons of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah; 23the son Aaron they gave the city of refuge, of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son Hebron; Libnah also with the open of Levi, the son of Israel. 24And his land about it, and Jattir, and Eshtebrother Asaph, who stood on his right moa with the open land about it; hand; even Asaph the son of Bere- and Hilen with the open land about chiah, the son of Shimea; 25the son of it, Debir with the open land about Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son it; and Ashan with the open land of Malchijah; 26the son of Ethni, the about it, and Beth-shemesh with the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah; 27the open land about it; 45and out of the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with the son of Shimei; 28the son of Jahath, open land about it, and Alemeth the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. with the open land about it, and 29 And on the left hand their brethren Anathoth with the open land about the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of it. All their cities throughout their Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of families were thirteen cities. Malluch; 30the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah; 31the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer; 32the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 33And their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. 47 46 And unto the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the halftribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 48 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 34 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 35And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son; 36Bukki | land about them. 5oAnd they gave by his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son; 37Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son; 38Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. 49 So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with the open lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. 39 Now these are their dwellingplaces according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, 51 And some of the families of the of the families of the Kohathites, for sons of Kohath had cities of their theirs was the [first] lot, 4oto them they borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. a Heb. cities. |