1The sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2Reaiah the son of Shobal was the father of Jahath. Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazelelponi.
4And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
5Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6Naarah bore him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7The sons of Helah were Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
8And Coz was the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
9Jabez was more honoured than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."
10Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh, that you would truly bless me, and make my border larger, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, so that it may not grieve me." And God gave him what he asked for.
11Chelub the brother of Shuah was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12Eshton was the father of Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
13The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
14Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim, for they were craftsmen.
15The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz.
16The sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17The sons of Ezra were Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18His wife Jehudijah bore 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, whom Mered married.
19The sons of his wife Hodiah, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
20The sons of Shimon were Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Benzoheth.
21The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who made fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
22and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.
23These were the potters, and those who lived among plants and hedges. They lived there with the king for his work.
25Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26The sons of Mishma: Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, and none of their family grew as large as the children of Judah.
28They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
29and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
31and at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
33and all their villages that were round about those cities, as far as Baal. These were the places where they lived, and this was their family record.
34And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
35and Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
36and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
37and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.
38These men, named here, were leaders in their families, and the house of their fathers grew greatly.
39They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to look for pasture for their flocks.
40They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful, for the people of Ham had lived there long ago.
41These men, written here by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They struck down the tents and the homes that were found there, and destroyed them completely, as it is to this day, and they lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42And some of them, of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir. Their captains were Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43They struck down the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.