1 Chronicles 2
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1 Chronicles 2:42-55

42The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son of Mareshah: Hebron.

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

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

45The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur.

46Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.

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

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

49She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

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

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

52Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

53And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

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

55The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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