2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, |
2:2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. |
2:3 The sons of Judah {were} Er, Onan and Shelah; {these} three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put him to death. |
2:4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. |
2:5 The sons of Perez {were} Hezron and Hamul. |
2:6 The sons of Zerah {were} Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Dara; five of them in all. |
2:7 The son of Carmi {was} Achar, the troubler of Israel, who violated the ban. |
2:8 The son of Ethan {was} Azariah. |
2:9 Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him {were} Jerahmeel, Ram and Chelubai. |
2:10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah; |
2:11 Nahshon became the father of Salma, Salma became the father of Boaz, |
2:12 Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; |
2:13 and Jesse became the father of Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, |
2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, |
2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; |
2:16 and their sisters {were} Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah {were} Abshai, Joab and Asahel. |
2:17 Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. |
2:18 Now Caleb the son of Hezron had sons by Azubah {his} wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. |
2:19 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. |
2:20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. |
2:21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. |
2:22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. |
2:23 But Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, {even} sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. |
2:24 After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. |
2:25 Now the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron {were} Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem {and} Ahijah. |
2:26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. |
2:27 The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin and Eker. |
2:28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai {were} Nadab and Abishur. |
2:29 The name of Abishur's wife {was} Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. |
2:30 The sons of Nadab {were} Seled and Appaim, and Seled died without sons. |
2:31 The son of Appaim {was} Ishi. And the son of Ishi {was} Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan {was} Ahlai. |
2:32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai {were} Jether and Jonathan, and Jether died without sons. |
2:33 The sons of Jonathan {were} Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. |
2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha. |
2:35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant in marriage, and she bore him Attai. |
2:36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, |
2:37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, |
2:38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, |
2:39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, |
2:40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, |
2:41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. |
2:42 Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, {were} Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron. |
2:43 The sons of Hebron {were} Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. |
2:44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. |
2:45 The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon {was} the father of Bethzur. |
2:46 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. |
2:47 The sons of Jahdai {were} Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah and Shaaph. |
2:48 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. |
2:49 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb {was} Achsah. |
2:50 These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, {were} Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim, |
2:51 Salma the father of Bethlehem {and} Hareph the father of Beth-gader. |
2:52 Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites, |
2:53 and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. |
2:54 The sons of Salma {were} Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. |
2:55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez {were} the Tirathites, the Shimeathites {and} the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. |