1 Chronicles 4:3-32

3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazlelponi.

4Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

5Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

6Naarah bore him Ahuzam, Hepher, Timeni and Ahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

7The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar and Ethnan.

8Koz fathered Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel, the son of Harum.

9Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

10Jabez called out to the God of Israel, saying, “If only You would greatly bless me, and enlarge my territory. Let Your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I might not suffer pain.” Adonai granted what he asked.

11Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

12Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.

13The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hatath

14and Meonothai, who fathered Ophrah. Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim , for they were craftsmen.

15The sons of Caleb, son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.

16The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiriah and Asarel.

17The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. She also bore Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

18(His Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soho and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.) These were the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh’s daughter whom Mered married.

19The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

21The sons of Shelah, son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Ladah the father of Mareshah, the families of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,

22and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab and Jashubi-lehem (the records are ancient).

23These were the potters and those who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there while doing the king’s work.

24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamim, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul,

25his son Shallum, his son Mibsam, and his son Mishma.

26The descendants of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur his son and Shimei his son.

27Now Shimei had 16 sons and six daughters. But his brothers did not have many sons, so their family did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.

28They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

29Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

30Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,

31Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These were their towns until the reign of David,

32together with their villages, Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan—five in all,