1 Chronicles 4:1-23

International Standard Version

Genealogy of Judah

4 Judah’s descendants were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

² Shobal’s son Reaiah fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

³ These were the descendants of^[a] the ancestor of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and their sister’s name was Hazzelelponi.

⁴ Penuel fathered Gedor and Ezer fathered Hushah.

These were the descendants of Hur, Ephrathah’s firstborn, who fathered Bethlehem: ⁵ Tekoa’s father Ashhur had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ⁶ Naarah bore him these sons: Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari.^[b]

⁷ The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar,^[c] and Ethnan.

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

⁹ Jabez enjoyed more honor than his relatives—his mother named him Jabez, she said, “because I bore him in pain.”^[d]

¹⁰ Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him,^[e] “…whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power^[f] with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!” And God granted what he had requested.

¹¹ Chelub, Shuhah’s brother, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. ¹² Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, who fathered Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

¹³ Kenaz’s descendants were Othniel and Seraiah.

Othniel’s descendants were Hathath ¹⁴ and Meonothai, who fathered Ophrah.

Seraiah fathered Joab, who fathered the Ge-harashim,^[g] because they became artisans.

¹⁵ The descendants of Jephunneh’s son Caleb were Iru, Elah, and Naam.

Elah’s son^[h] was Kenaz.

¹⁶ Jehallelel’s descendants were Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

¹⁷ Ezrah’s descendants were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.

Mered’s wife^[i] conceived Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, who fathered Eshtemoa. ¹⁸ Then his Judean wife bore Jered, who fathered Gedor and then Heber, who fathered Soco and Jekuthiel, who fathered Zanoah. These are the descendants of Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.

¹⁹ The descendants of Hodiah’s wife, Naham’s sister, fathered Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

²⁰ Shimon’s descendants were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon.

Ishi’s descendants were Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

²¹ The descendants of Judah’s son Shelah were Er, who fathered Lecah, Laadah (who fathered Mareshah and the families who belonged to the guild^[j] of linen workers at Beth-ashbea), ²² Jokim, the men who lived in Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph (who married Moabite families),^[k] and Jashubi-lehem.^[l] (The records are ancient.)^{[m] 23} These people^[n] were potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah in service to their king, who lived there.