More Information About the Clans of Judah

4 The descendants^[a] of Judah were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

² Reaiah son of Shobal became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the clans of the Zorathites.

³ These were the sons^[b] of Etam: Jezre’el, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

⁴ Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

⁵ Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Na’arah. ⁶ Na’arah gave birth to Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Ha’ahashtari. These were the sons of Na’arah. ⁷ The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.

⁸ Koz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum.

⁹ Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because she said, “I gave birth to him with pain.”^{[c] 10} Jabez called to the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my borders! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil,^[d] so that I will not experience pain!” God granted him what he requested.

¹¹ Kelub, the brother of Shuhah, became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ¹² Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Rekah.

¹³ The sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.^[e]

¹⁹ The sons of Hodiah’s wife, who was the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Ma’akathite.^[h]

²⁰ The sons of Shimon were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon.

The sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben Zoheth.

²¹ The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah, were Er the father of Lekah, La’adah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen at Beth Ashbea, ²² also Jokim and the men of Kozeba, also Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and Jashubi Lehem.^[i] These records are ancient. ²³ These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king, to work for him.

The Tribe of Simeon

²⁷ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, and their whole family did not increase in number like the people of Judah.

²⁸ They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, and Hazar Shual, ²⁹ at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, ³⁰ at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, ³¹ at Beth Markaboth, at Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Sha’araim. These were their cities until David’s reign. ³² Their villages were around Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token,^[j] and Ashan—five cities ³³ and all their villages that were around these cities, as far as Baal.^[k] These were their settlements, and they had preserved their genealogical records.

Clan Leaders

³⁹ They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to search for pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰ They found good, rich pasture, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful. The people who had lived there previously were descended from Ham. ⁴¹ These who have been named came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and attacked the tent camps of the Hamites. They completely destroyed the Meunites who were found there, and to this day they have lived in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks there. ⁴² Some of them, five hundred men, also descendants of Simeon, went to Mount Seir. Their leaders were Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ⁴³ They struck down the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.