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41 The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements,[a] as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out, as can be seen to this very day. They dispossessed them,[b] for they found pasture for their sheep there. 42 Five hundred men of Simeon, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to the hill country of Seir 43 and defeated the rest of the Amalekite refugees;[c] they live there to this very day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:41 tn The Hebrew text reads “their tents,” apparently referring to those of the Hamites mentioned at the end of v. 40. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “the tents of Ham.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 4:41 tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 4:43 tn Heb “and struck down the remnant that had escaped belonging to Amalek.”