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May 9th


1 Chronicles 2

1 These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah were: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him of Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. But Judah's first-born, Er, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so he killed him.
4 Judah's daughter-in-law Tamar bore him Perez and Zerah, so that he had five sons in all.
5 The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
6 The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda--five in all.
7 The sons of Zimri: Carmi. The sons of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban.
8 The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
9 The sons born to Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, a prince of the Judahites.
11 Nahshon became the father of Salmah. Salmah became the father of Boaz.
12 Boaz became the father of Obed. Obed became the father of Jesse.
13 Jesse became the father of Eliab, his first-born, of Abinadab, the second son, Shimea, the third,
14 Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,
15 Ozem, the sixth, and David, the seventh.
16 Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
17 Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18 By his wife Azubah, Caleb, son of Hezron, became the father of a daughter, Jerioth. Her sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
19 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
21 Then Hezron had relations with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, having married her when he was sixty years old. She bore him Segub.
22 Segub became the father of Jair, who possessed twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23 Geshur and Aram took from them the villages of Jair, that is, Kenath and its towns, sixty cities in all, which had belonged to the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb had relations with Ephrathah, the widow of his father Hezron, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
25 The sons of Jerahmeel, the first-born of Hezron, were Ram, the first-born, then Bunah, Oren, and Ozem, his brothers.
26 Jerahmeel also had another wife, Atarah by name, who was the mother of Onam.
27 The sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur.
29 Abishur's wife, who was named Abihail, bore him Ahban and Molid.
30 The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim. Seled died without sons.
31 The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
32 The sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, were Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without sons.
33 The sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel.
34 Sheshan, who had no sons, only daughters, had an Egyptian slave named Jarha.
35 Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his slave Jarha, and she bore him Attai.
36 Attai became the father of Nathan. Nathan became the father of Zabad.
37 Zabad became the father of Ephlal. Ephlal became the father of Obed.
38 Obed became the father of Jehu. Jehu became the father of Azariah.
39 Azariah became the father of Helez. Helez became the father of Eleasah.
40 Eleasah became the father of Sismai. Sismai became the father of Shallum.
41 Shallum became the father of Jekamiah. Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
42 The descendants of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel: (Mesha) his first-born, who was the father of Ziph. Then the sons of Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.
43 The sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
44 Shema became the father of Raham, who was the father of Jorkeam. Rekem became the father of Shammai.
45 The son of Shammai: Maon, who was the father of Beth-zur.
46 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran became the father of 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 Machbenah, and the father of Gibea. Achsah was Caleb's daughter.
50 These were descendants of Caleb, sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,
51 Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph, the father of Bethgader.
52 The sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, were Reaiah, half the Manahathites,
53 and the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these the people of Zorah and the Eshtaolites derived.
54 The descendants of Salma were Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites.
55 The clans of the Sopherim dwelling in Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They were the Kenites, who came from Hammath of the ancestor of the Rechabites.

1 Chronicles 3

1 The following were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the first-born, Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second, Daniel, by Abigail of Carmel;
2 the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, who was the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, son of Haggith;
3 the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah.
4 Six in all were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. Then he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem,
5 where the following were born to him: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon--four by Bathsheba, the daughter of Ammiel;
6 Ibhar, Elishua, Eliphelet,
7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet--nine.
9 All these were sons of David, in addition to other sons by concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
10 The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, whose son was Abijah, whose son was Asa, whose son was Jehoshaphat,
11 whose son was Joram, whose son was Ahaziah, whose son was Joash,
12 whose son was Amaziah, whose son was Azariah, whose son was Jotham,
13 whose son was Ahaz, whose son was Hezekiah, whose son was Manasseh,
14 whose son was Amon, whose son was Josiah.
15 The sons of Josiah were: the first-born Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.
16 The sons of Jehoiakim were: Jeconiah, his son; Zedekiah, his son.
17 The sons of Jeconiah the captive were: Shealtiel,
18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Shama, and Nedabiah.
19 The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah; Shelomith was their sister.
20 The sons of Meshullam were Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, Jushabhesed--five.
21 The sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah, Jeshaiah, Rephaiah, Arnan, Obadiah, and Shecaniah.
22 The sons of Shecaniah were Shemiah, Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, Shaphat--six.
23 The sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam--three.
24 The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani--seven.

1 Chronicles 4

1 The descendants of Judah were: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
2 Reaiah, the son of Shobal, became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
3 These were the descendants of Hareph, the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
4 Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, the Temenites and the Ahashtarites. These were the descendants of Naarah.
7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, Ethnan, and Koz.
8 Koz became the father of Anub and Zobebah, as well as of the clans of Aharhel, son of Harum.
9 Jabez was the most distinguished of the brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, I bore him with pain.
10 Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: Oh, that you may truly bless me and extend my boundaries! Help me and make me free of misfortune, without pain! And God granted his prayer.
11 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12 Eshton became the father of Bethrapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These were the men of Recah.
13 The sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai;
14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah. Seraiah became the father of Joab, the father of Geharashim, so called because they were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb, son of Jephunneh, were Ir, Elah, and Naam. The sons of Elah were... and Kenaz.
16 The sons of Jehallelel were Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17 The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Jether became the father of Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. (......)
18 His (Mered's) Egyptian wife bore Jered, the father of Gedor, Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.
19 The sons of his Jewish wife, the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah, were Shimon the Garmite and Ishi the Maacathite.
20 The sons of Shimon were Amnon, Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. The son of Ishi was Zoheth and the son of Zoheth....
21 The descendants of Shelah, son of Judah, were: Er, the father of Lecah; Laadah, the father of Mareshah; the clans of the linen weavers' guild in Bethashbea;
22 Jokim; the men of Cozeba; and Joash and Saraph, who held property in Moab, but returned to Bethlehem. (These are events of old.)
23 They were potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah, where they lived in the king's service.
24 The sons of Simeon were Nemuel, Jamin, Jachin, Zerah, and Shaul,
25 whose son was Shallum, whose son was Mibsam, whose son was Mishma.
26 The descendants of Mishma were his son Hammuel, whose son was Zaccur, whose son was Shimei.
27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. His brothers, however, did not have many sons, and as a result all their clans did not equal the number of the Judahites.
28 They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
30 Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31 Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Bethbiri, and Shaaraim. Until David came to reign, these were their cities
32 and their villages. Etam, also, and Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan--five cities,
33 together with all their outlying villages as far as Baal. Here is where they dwelt, and so it was inscribed of them in their family records.
34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah, son of Amaziah,
35 Joel, Jehu, son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,
36 Elioenai, Jaakobath, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
37 Ziza, son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah--
38 these just named were princes in their clans, and their ancestral houses spread out to such an extent
39 that they went to the approaches of Gedor, east of the valley, seeking pasture for their flocks.
40 They found abundant and good pastures, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful.
41 They who have just been listed by name set out during the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked the tents of Ham (for Hamites dwelt there formerly) and also the Meunites who were there. They pronounced against them the ban that is still in force and dwelt in their place because they found pasture there for their flocks.
42 Five hundred of them (the Simeonites) went to Mount Seir under the leadership of Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi.
43 They attacked the surviving Amalekites who had escaped, and have resided there to the present day.