1 Chronicles 3-4

New International Version

The Sons of David^(A)^(B)

3 These were the sons of David^(C) born to him in Hebron:

The firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam^(D) of Jezreel;^(E)

the second, Daniel the son of Abigail^(F) of Carmel;

²the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

the fourth, Adonijah^(G) the son of Haggith;

³the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

and the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah.

⁴These six were born to David in Hebron,^(H) where he reigned seven years and six months.^(I)

David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years, ⁵and these were the children born to him there:

Shammua,^[a] Shobab, Nathan and Solomon. These four were by Bathsheba^[b]^(J) daughter of Ammiel. ⁶There were also Ibhar, Elishua,^[c] Eliphelet, ⁷Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, ⁸Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet—nine in all. ⁹All these were the sons of David, besides his sons by his concubines. And Tamar^(K) was their sister.^(L)

The Kings of Judah

¹⁰Solomon’s son was Rehoboam,^(M)

Abijah^(N) his son,

Asa^(O) his son,

Jehoshaphat^(P) his son,

¹¹Jehoram^[d]^(Q) his son,

Ahaziah^(R) his son,

Joash^(S) his son,

¹²Amaziah^(T) his son,

Azariah^(U) his son,

Jotham^(V) his son,

¹³Ahaz^(W) his son,

Hezekiah^(X) his son,

Manasseh^(Y) his son,

¹⁴Amon^(Z) his son,

Josiah^(AA) his son.

¹⁵The sons of Josiah:

Johanan the firstborn,

Jehoiakim^(AB) the second son,

Zedekiah^(AC) the third,

Shallum^(AD) the fourth.

¹⁶The successors of Jehoiakim:

Jehoiachin^[e]^(AE) his son,

and Zedekiah.^(AF)

The Royal Line After the Exile

¹⁷The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive:

Shealtiel^(AG) his son, ¹⁸Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar,^(AH) Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.^(AI)

¹⁹The sons of Pedaiah:

Zerubbabel^(AJ) and Shimei.

The sons of Zerubbabel:

Meshullam and Hananiah.

Shelomith was their sister.

²⁰There were also five others:

Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-Hesed.

²¹The descendants of Hananiah:

Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, and the sons of Rephaiah, of Arnan, of Obadiah and of Shekaniah.

²²The descendants of Shekaniah:

Shemaiah and his sons:

Hattush,^(AK) Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat—six in all.

²³The sons of Neariah:

Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam—three in all.

²⁴The sons of Elioenai:

Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani—seven in all.

Other Clans of Judah

4 The descendants of Judah:^(AL)

Perez, Hezron,^(AM) Karmi, Hur and Shobal.

²Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

³These were the sons^[f] of Etam:

Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi. ⁴Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah.

These were the descendants of Hur,^(AN) the firstborn of Ephrathah and father^[g] of Bethlehem.^(AO)

⁵Ashhur^(AP) the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

⁶Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.

⁷The sons of Helah:

Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan, ⁸and Koz, who was the father of Anub and Hazzobebah and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum.

⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,^[h] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” ¹⁰Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

¹¹Kelub, Shuhah’s brother, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ¹²Eshton was the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash.^[i] These were the men of Rekah.

¹³The sons of Kenaz:

Othniel^(AQ) and Seraiah.

The sons of Othniel:

Hathath and Meonothai.^[j] ¹⁴Meonothai was the father of Ophrah.

Seraiah was the father of Joab,

the father of Ge Harashim.^[k] It was called this because its people were skilled workers.

¹⁵The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh:

Iru, Elah and Naam.

The son of Elah:

Kenaz.

¹⁶The sons of Jehallelel:

Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

¹⁷The sons of Ezrah:

Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered’s wives gave birth to Miriam,^(AR) Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. ¹⁸(His wife from the tribe of Judah gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soko, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.^(AS)) These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, whom Mered had married.

¹⁹The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham:

the father of Keilah^(AT) the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maakathite.^(AU)

²⁰The sons of Shimon:

Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan and Tilon.

The descendants of Ishi:

Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.

²¹The sons of Shelah^(AV) son of Judah:

Er the father of Lekah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth Ashbea, ²²Jokim, the men of Kozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (These records are from ancient times.) ²³They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.

Simeon^(AW)

²⁴The descendants of Simeon:^(AX)

Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib,^(AY) Zerah and Shaul;

²⁵Shallum was Shaul’s son, Mibsam his son and Mishma his son.

²⁶The descendants of Mishma:

Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son and Shimei his son.

²⁷Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children; so their entire clan did not become as numerous as the people of Judah. ²⁸They lived in Beersheba,^(AZ) Moladah,^(BA) Hazar Shual, ²⁹Bilhah, Ezem,^(BB) Tolad, ³⁰Bethuel, Hormah,^(BC) Ziklag,^(BD) ³¹Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri and Shaaraim.^(BE) These were their towns until the reign of David. ³²Their surrounding villages were Etam, Ain,^(BF) Rimmon, Token and Ashan^(BG)—five towns— ³³and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath.^[l] These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical record.

³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, ³⁵Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, ³⁶also Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷and Ziza son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.

³⁸The men listed above by name were leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly, ³⁹and they went to the outskirts of Gedor^(BH) to the east of the valley in search of pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰They found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful and quiet.^(BI) Some Hamites had lived there formerly.

⁴¹The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites^(BJ) who were there and completely destroyed^[m] them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks. ⁴²And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.^(BK) ⁴³They killed the remaining Amalekites^(BL) who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

Footnotes

1 Chronicles 3:5 Hebrew Shimea, a variant of Shammua
1 Chronicles 3:5 One Hebrew manuscript and Vulgate (see also Septuagint and 2 Samuel 11:3); most Hebrew manuscripts Bathshua
1 Chronicles 3:6 Two Hebrew manuscripts (see also 2 Samuel 5:15 and 1 Chron. 14:5); most Hebrew manuscripts Elishama
1 Chronicles 3:11 Hebrew Joram, a variant of Jehoram
1 Chronicles 3:16 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin; also in verse 17
1 Chronicles 4:3 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also Vulgate); Hebrew father
1 Chronicles 4:4 Father may mean civic leader or military leader; also in verses 12, 14, 17, 18 and possibly elsewhere.
1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain.
1 Chronicles 4:12 Or of the city of Nahash
1 Chronicles 4:13 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; Hebrew does not have and Meonothai.
1 Chronicles 4:14 Ge Harashim means valley of skilled workers.
1 Chronicles 4:33 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also Joshua 19:8); Hebrew Baal
1 Chronicles 4:41 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

Amos 3

New International Version

Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

3 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you^(A)—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:^(B)

²“You only have I chosen^(C)
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish^(D) you
for all your sins.^(E)”

³Do two walk together
    unless they have agreed to do so?
⁴Does a lion roar^(F) in the thicket
    when it has no prey?^(G)
Does it growl in its den
    when it has caught nothing?
⁵Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground
    when no bait^(H) is there?
Does a trap spring up from the ground
    if it has not caught anything?
⁶When a trumpet^(I) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster^(J) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?^(K)

⁷Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
without revealing his plan^(L)
to his servants the prophets.^(M)

⁸The lion^(N) has roared^(O)—
who will not fear?
The Sovereign Lord has spoken—
who can but prophesy?^(P)

⁹Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod^(Q)
    and to the fortresses of Egypt:
“Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;^(R)
    see the great unrest within her
    and the oppression among her people.”

¹⁰“They do not know how to do right,^(S)” declares the Lord,
“who store up in their fortresses^(T)
what they have plundered^(U) and looted.”

¹¹Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“An enemy will overrun your land,
pull down your strongholds
and plunder your fortresses.^(V)”

¹²This is what the Lord says:

“As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s^(W) mouth
    only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,
so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued,
    with only the head of a bed
    and a piece of fabric^[a] from a couch.^[b]^(X)”

¹³“Hear this and testify^(Y) against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.

¹⁴“On the day I punish^(Z) Israel for her sins,
    I will destroy the altars of Bethel;^(AA)
the horns^(AB) of the altar will be cut off
    and fall to the ground.
¹⁵I will tear down the winter house^(AC)
    along with the summer house;^(AD)
the houses adorned with ivory^(AE) will be destroyed
    and the mansions^(AF) will be demolished,^(AG)”
declares the Lord.^(AH)

Footnotes

Amos 3:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Amos 3:12 Or Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.