¹The sons of Judah were Perez and Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal. ²And Reaiah the son of Shobal bore Jahath, and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. Those were the families of the Zorathites. ³And these were the fathers of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazlelponi. ⁴And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. Those were the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. ⁵And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ⁶And Naarah bore him Ahuzam and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. Those were the sons of Naarah. ⁷And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. ⁸And Coz begot Anub and Hazzobebah and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. ⁹Now Jabez was more honoured than his brothers, and his mother called him Jabez and said, “It is because I bore him in sorrow.” ¹⁰And Jabez called on the God of Israel and said, “If only you would make a point of blessing me, and increasing my territory, and your hand would be with me, and you would act keeping me from harm so that I may not have sorrow!” And God brought about what he had asked. ¹¹And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir – he was the father of Eshton. ¹²And Eshton begot Beth-Rapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir-Nahash. Those were the men of Rechah. ¹³And the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and his line. ¹⁴And Meonothai begot Ophrah. And Seraiah begot Joab the father of the Valley of Harashim, for they were craftsmen. ¹⁵And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah and Naam. And the sons of Elah were Kenaz and his line. ¹⁶And the sons of Jehalelel were Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel. ¹⁷And the sons of Ezrah were Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon. And she bore Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. ¹⁸And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Sochoh, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And those were the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom Mered took. ¹⁹And the sons of the wife of Hodijah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. ²⁰And the sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-Hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth. ²¹The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of fine linen work, of the house of Ashbea, ²²and Jokim and the men of Chozeba, and Joash and Saraph who ruled over Moab and Jashubi-Lehem. And the records are ancient. ²³Those were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They accompanied the king in his work, and they lived there. ²⁴The sons of Simeon were Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Saul, ²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ²⁶And the sons of Mishma were Hamuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. ²⁷And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many sons, and their family as a whole did not multiply to the extent the sons of Judah did. ²⁸And they lived in Beersheba and Moladah and Hazar-Shual, ²⁹and in Bilhah and in Ezem and in Tolad, ³⁰and in Bethuel and in Hormah and in Ziklag, ³¹and in Beth-Marcaboth and in Hazar-Susim and in Beth-Birei and in Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. ³²And their villages were Etam and Ain, Rimmon and Tochen and Ashan – five cities. ³³And all their villages in the areas surrounding these cities extended as far as Baal. This was their homeland and their place of genealogical registration which they had. ³⁴And as for 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, 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 are those who came in high standing – leaders among their families – and the house of their fathers expanded profusely. ³⁹And they went to the approach of Gedor, as far as the east of the valley, to look for pasture for their sheep. ⁴⁰And they found rich and good quality pasture, and the land was wide on both sides, and quiet and calm, for the inhabitants there had for a long time been those descended from Ham. ⁴¹And those who were registered by their names in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah came and attacked their tents and the dwelling places which were found there, and they obliterated them, as they are up to this day. And they lived there in place of them, for there was pasture for their sheep there. ⁴²And some of them from the sons of Simeon went to Mount Seir – five hundred men – and Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel the sons of Ishi were at their head. ⁴³And they struck down the escaped remnant of the Amalekites, and they have been living there up to this day.