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King Saul’s Family Tree

35 Jeiel (the father of[a] Gibeon) lived in the town of Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,

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  1. 9:35 Or the founder of.

The Family of Saul

29 Jeiel[a] (the father of[b] Gibeon) lived in the town of Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah, 30 and his oldest son was named Abdon. Jeiel’s other sons were Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner,[c] Nadab, 31 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah,[d] 32 and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeam.[e] All these families lived near each other in Jerusalem.

33 Ner was the father of Kish.
Kish was the father of Saul.
Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malkishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
34 Jonathan was the father of Merib-baal.
Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
35 Micah was the father of Pithon, Melech, Tahrea,[f] and Ahaz.
36 Ahaz was the father of Jadah.[g]
Jadah was the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri.
Zimri was the father of Moza.
37 Moza was the father of Binea.
Binea was the father of Rephaiah.[h]
Rephaiah was the father of Eleasah.
Eleasah was the father of Azel.

38 Azel had six sons: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

39 Azel’s brother Eshek had three sons: the first was Ulam, the second was Jeush, and the third was Eliphelet. 40 Ulam’s sons were all mighty warriors and expert archers. They had many sons and grandsons—150 in all.

All these were descendants of Benjamin.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:29a As in some Greek manuscripts (see also 9:35); Hebrew lacks Jeiel.
  2. 8:29b Or the founder of.
  3. 8:30 As in some Greek manuscripts (see also 9:36); Hebrew lacks Ner.
  4. 8:31 As in parallel text at 9:37; Hebrew reads Zeker, a variant spelling of Zechariah.
  5. 8:32 As in parallel text at 9:38; Hebrew reads Shimeah, a variant spelling of Shimeam.
  6. 8:35 As in parallel text at 9:41; Hebrew reads Tarea, a variant spelling of Tahrea.
  7. 8:36 As in parallel text at 9:42; Hebrew reads Jehoaddah, a variant spelling of Jadah.
  8. 8:37 As in parallel text at 9:43; Hebrew reads Raphah, a variant spelling of Rephaiah.

50 These were all descendants of Caleb.

Descendants of Caleb’s Son Hur

The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Caleb’s wife Ephrathah, were Shobal (the founder of Kiriath-jearim), 51 Salma (the founder of Bethlehem), and Hareph (the founder of Beth-gader).

52 The descendants of Shobal (the founder of Kiriath-jearim) were Haroeh, half the Manahathites,

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45 The son of Shammai was Maon. Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

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23 (But Geshur and Aram captured the Towns of Jair[a] and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

24 Soon after Hezron died in the town of Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah gave birth to a son named Ashhur (the father of[b] Tekoa).

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Footnotes

  1. 2:23 Or captured Havvoth-jair.
  2. 2:24 Or the founder of; also in 2:42, 45, 49.

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