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3 ¶ Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon of Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel of Abigail of Carmel;
2 the third, Absalom, the son of Maachah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith;
3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
4 These six were born unto him in Hebron, and there he reigned seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.
5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bathshua, the daughter of Ammiel:
6 And another nine: Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.
10 ¶ And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia, his son; Asa, his son; Jehoshaphat, his son;
11 Joram, his son; Ahaziah, his son; Joash, his son;
12 Amaziah, his son; Azariah, his son; Jotham, his son;
13 Ahaz, his son; Hezekiah, his son; Manasseh, his son;
14 Amon, his son; Josiah, his son.
15 And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn, Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.
16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah, his son; Zedekiah his son.
17 And the sons of Jeconiah: Assir, Salathiel, his son,
18 Malchiram also, Pedaiah, Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, Hananiah, and Shelomith, their sister.
20 And of Meshullam: Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushabhesed, five in all.
21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jesaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
22 And the son of Shechaniah: Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igeal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
24 And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaiah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
4 ¶ The sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
2 And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, begat Jahath, and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3 And these were of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi.
4 And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
5 And Ashur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 And Naarah gave birth to Ahuzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari unto him. These were the sons of Naarah.
7 And the sons of Helah: Zereth, Jezoar, and Ethnan.
8 And Coz begat Anub and Zobebah and the family of Aharhel, the son of Harum.
9 And Jabez was more honoured than his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.
10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou would bless me indeed and enlarge my border and that thy hand might be with me and that thou would deliver me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
11 ¶ And Chelub, the brother of Shuah, begat Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath
14 and Meonothai, who begat Ophrah. And Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the inhabitants of the valley of Charashim, for they were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and Kenaz was the son of Elah.
16 The sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17 And the sons of Ezra: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and also begat Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
18 And his wife Jehudijah gave birth unto him Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah, the Garmite, and Eshtemoa, the Maachathite.
20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Benzoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
22 and Jokim and the men of Chozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient words.
23 These were the potters and those that dwelt among plants and hedges, who dwelt there with the king for his work.
24 ¶ The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Saul;
25 also Shallum, his son, Mibsam, his son, and Mishma, his son.
26 The sons of Mishma: Hamuel, his son, Zacchur, his son, Shimei his son.
27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brethren did not have many children, neither did all their family multiply, like the sons of Judah.
28 And they dwelt at Beersheba and Moladah and Hazarshual
29 and at Bilhah and at Ezem and at Tolad
30 and at Bethuel and at Hormah and at Ziklag
31 and at Bethmarcaboth and Hazarsusim and at Bethbirei and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
33 and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations and their genealogy.
34 And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
35 and Joel and Jehu, the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
36 and Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
37 and Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.
38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families, and they were multiplied greatly in the house of their fathers.
39 And they came unto the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide and spacious and quiet and peaceable, for the sons of Ham had dwelt there of old.
41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah and smote their tents and the habitations that were found there and destroyed them utterly unto this day and dwelt in their place because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 And likewise five hundred men of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped and dwelt there unto this day.
5 ¶ Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; and he was not counted as the firstborn.
2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren and was their prince, but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
3 The sons, therefore, of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah, his son, Gog, his son, Shimei, his son,
5 Micah, his son, Reaia, his son, Baal, his son,
6 Beerah, his son, whom Tilgathpilneser, king of Assyria, carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, had as princes, Jeiel and Zechariah.
8 And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer, even until Nebo and Baalmeon.
9 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, {Ishmaelites} who fell by their hand, and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
11 And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah.
12 Joel, the chief, and Shapham, second, and Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan.
13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jachan, Zia, and Heber, seven.
14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.
15 Also Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was the prince of the house of their fathers.
16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan and in her towns and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their goings forth.
17 All these were reckoned by their generations in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel.
18 ¶ The sons of Reuben and of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword and to shoot with bow and skillful in war were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the war.
19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur and Nephish and Nodab.
20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them because they put their trust in him.
21 And they took away their livestock; fifty thousand camels and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep and two thousand asses and one hundred thousand persons.
22 For there fell down many slain because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
23 And the sons of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land; they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir and unto Mount Hermon.
24 And these were the heads of the houses of their fathers: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the houses of their fathers.
25 But they rebelled against the God of their fathers and fornicated after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
26 And for this the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser, king of Assyria, and he carried away the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh and brought them unto Halah and Habor and Hara and to the River Gozan, unto this day.
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