1 Chronicles 1
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Genealogy From Adam to Israel[a]
From Adam to Noah
1 Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah.
The sons of Noah were[b] Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The Descendants of Japheth
5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, and Tiras.[c]
6 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath,[d] and Togarmah.
7 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim,[e] and the Rodanim.[f]
The Descendants of Ham
8 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim,[g] Put, and Canaan.
9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Ra’ama,[h] and Sabteca.
The sons of Ra’ama were Sheba and Dedan.
10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. Nimrod was the first to be[i] a mighty warrior on the earth.
11 Mizraim became the father of the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, 12 the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorim.
13 Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of Heth, 14 also of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 15 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 16 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.[j]
The Descendants of Shem
17 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
The sons of Aram[k] were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.[l]
18 Arphaxad became the father of Shelah,[m] and Shelah became the father of Eber.
19 Two sons were born to Eber. The name of one was Peleg,[n] because in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 22 Ebal,[o] Abimael, Sheba, 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
The Ancestry of Abraham
24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 Abram (also called Abraham).
The Families of Abraham
28 The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael. 29 These are their genealogies:
The Descendants of Hagar
The firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth. Then came Kedar, Adbe’el, Mibsam, 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
The Descendants of Keturah
32 These are the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine.[p] She gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
The sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.
33 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida, and Elda’ah.
All these were the descendants of Keturah.
The Descendants of Sarah
34 Abraham became the father of Isaac.
The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.
The Descendants of Esau
35 The sons of Esau were Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
36 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, and Amalek by Timna.[q]
37 The sons of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
The People of Seir in Edom
38 The sons of Seir were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.[r]
39 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.
40 The sons of Shobal were Alian,[s] Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.
The sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah.
41 The son of Anah was Dishon.
The sons of Dishon were Hamran,[t] Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.
42 The sons of Ezer were Bilhan, Za’avan, and Ja’akan.[u]
The sons of Dishan were Uz and Aran.
The Rulers of Edom
43 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel:
Bela son of Beor. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
44 Bela died, and Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned as king in his place.
45 Jobab died, and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned as king in his place.
46 Husham died, and Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the territory of Moab, reigned as king in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
47 Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned as king in his place.
48 Samlah died, and Shaul from Rehoboth by the River[v] reigned as king in his place.
49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan son of Akbor reigned as king in his place.
50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned as king in his place. The name of his city was Pai,[w] and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me Zahab. 51 Then Hadad died.
The chiefs of Edom were Chief Timna, Chief Aliah,[x] Chief Jetheth, 52 Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, 53 Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, 54 Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 1:1 The genealogies of the first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles present considerable challenges for the translator and reader. Although many of the names appear in earlier genealogical lists in the Bible, many names are spelled differently here, and there are other differences between the lists. Also many of the genealogies are incomplete, omitting some generations.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4 The Hebrew text does not include the words the sons of Noah were. The translation follows the Greek text.
- 1 Chronicles 1:5 Some of these proper names are the names both of individuals and of the ethnic groups derived from them. Some of these names also serve as the names of the geographic locations in which these peoples lived. Sometimes in genealogies the term sons includes successive generations of descendants.
- 1 Chronicles 1:6 Variant Ripath. In Hebrew script the equivalents of d and r look very much alike.
- 1 Chronicles 1:7 Even though they are called sons, the names ending in -im refer to groups of people rather than to individuals. Generally in narrative contexts this -im ending is translated as -ites. Here we keep some of the -im endings to reflect the structure and nature of the genealogies.
- 1 Chronicles 1:7 Variant Dodanim. The Hebrew equivalents of d and r look very much alike in Hebrew script.
- 1 Chronicles 1:8 Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 1:9 The stop mark ′ indicates that the double a in Ra’ama should be pronounced as two syllables, Ray-ama.
- 1 Chronicles 1:10 Or began to be
- 1 Chronicles 1:16 The groups of people in this section are not marked by the ethnic ending -im but by -i, translated here as -ites.
- 1 Chronicles 1:17 The Hebrew does not have the words sons of Aram. The translation follows the parallel in Genesis 10:23.
- 1 Chronicles 1:17 Variant Mash or Massa
- 1 Chronicles 1:18 Some Greek texts add another generation after Arphaxad, namely, Kenan/Cainan. See the note at Genesis 11:13.
- 1 Chronicles 1:19 Peleg means division.
- 1 Chronicles 1:22 Variant Obal
- 1 Chronicles 1:32 A concubine is a legal wife, but with a lesser status than that of the primary wife or wives.
- 1 Chronicles 1:36 The Hebrew text reads and Timna and Amalek, but Genesis 36:12 indicates that Timna was the mother of Amalek. Also see verses 39, where Timna is a woman, and 51, in which Timna is a man.
- 1 Chronicles 1:38 It is clear from what follows that not all of these names are sons in the narrow biological sense of the term. Seir is the same region as Edom. These are not necessarily physical descendants of Esau but peoples that joined his nation.
- 1 Chronicles 1:40 Variant Alvan. The Hebrew equivalents of i and v look alike.
- 1 Chronicles 1:41 Variant Hemdan
- 1 Chronicles 1:42 Variant Akan
- 1 Chronicles 1:48 The River usually refers to the Euphrates, which is far from Edom.
- 1 Chronicles 1:50 Variant Pau
- 1 Chronicles 1:51 Variant Alvah. The Hebrew letters i and v look alike.
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