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