Ketuvim (Hagiographer) » Chronicles I (Divrei Hayamim 1)

Chapter 2

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These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

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Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and He slew him.

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And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

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The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.

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And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

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And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing.

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And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.

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The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

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And Ram begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

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and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz;

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and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;

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and Jesse begot his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third;

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Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth;

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Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.

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And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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And Caleb the son of Hezron begot children of Azubah his wife--and of Jerioth--and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

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And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

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And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.

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And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead; whom he took to wife when he was threescore years old; and she bore him Segub.

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And Segub begot Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

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And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrath, then Abiah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.

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And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

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And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

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And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.

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And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.

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And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

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And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

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And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.

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And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

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Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

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So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bore him Attai.

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And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad;

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and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed;

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and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah;

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and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah;

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and Eleasah begot Sisamai, and Sisamai begot Shallum;

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and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.

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And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

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And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

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And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begot Shammai.

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And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

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And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.

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And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

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Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

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And [the wife of] Shaaph the father of Madmannah bore Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

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These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Ephrath: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim;

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Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

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And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, and half of the Menuhoth.

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And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites, and the Eshtaolites.

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The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

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And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.