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41 Later on, during the reign[a] of King Hezekiah of Judah, these people,[b] enumerated by name, came and attacked both their homes[c] and the Meunim who had settled there and who remain exterminated to this day. They settled down there, taking their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 Some of them—that is, 500 Simeonite men—went to Mount Seir.[d] Under the leadership of Ishi’s sons Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, 43 they destroyed the survivors of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:41 Lit. days
  2. 1 Chronicles 4:41 The Heb. lacks people
  3. 1 Chronicles 4:41 Lit. tents
  4. 1 Chronicles 4:42 This mountain, the modern Jebel esh-sherá, is located in the mountain range that extends south of the Dead Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba, and is bordered by the Arabah Valley to the west.