A Genealogy of David

2 These are the sons of ^tIsrael: ^uReuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, ^vIssachar, Zebulun, 2 ^wDan, ^xJoseph, ^yBenjamin, ^zNaphtali, ^aGad, and Asher. 3 ^bThe sons of Judah: ^cEr, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. 4 His daughter-in-law ^dTamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

5 The ^esons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. 7 The son¹ of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who ^fbroke faith in the matter of the devoted thing; 8 and Ethan’s son was Azariah.

9 The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, ^gRam, and ^hChelubai. 10 ^gRam fathered Amminadab, and ⁱAmminadab fathered ^jNahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. 11 Nahshon fathered ^kSalmon,² Salmon fathered ^lBoaz, 12 Boaz fathered Obed, ^lObed fathered Jesse. 13 ^mJesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, ⁿShimea the third, 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 Ozem the sixth, ^oDavid the seventh. 16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. ^pThe sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. 17 ^qAbigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was ^qJether the Ishmaelite.

18 ^rCaleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19 When Azubah died, ^rCaleb married ^sEphrath, who bore him ^tHur. 20 Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered ^uBezalel.

21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of ^vMachir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. 22 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 23 ^wBut Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead. 24 After the death of Hezron, ^xCaleb went in to Ephrathah,³ the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him ^yAshhur, the father of Tekoa.

25 The sons of ^zJerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron: Ram, his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. 26 Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 27 The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. 28 The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 29 The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died childless. 31 The son⁴ of Appaim: Ishi. ^aThe son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. 32 The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless. 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel. 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. 35 So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai. 36 Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered ^bZabad. 37 ^bZabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered ^cObed. 38 Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. 39 Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. 40 Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. 41 Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered ^dElishama.

42 The sons of ^eCaleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah⁵ his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son⁶ of Mareshah: ^fHebron.⁷ 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema. 44 Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai. 45 The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur. 46 Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez. 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. 48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the ^gdaughter of Caleb was Achsah. 50 These were the descendants of Caleb.

The sons⁸ of Hur the firstborn of ^hEphrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim, 51 ⁱSalma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader. 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: ^jHaroeh, half of the Menuhoth. 53 And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the ^kZorathites and the Eshtaolites. 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. 55 The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the ^lKenites who came from Hammath, the father of ^mthe house of Rechab.

Descendants of David

3 ⁿThese are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, ^oDaniel, by Abigail the Carmelite, 2 the third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith; 3 the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah; 4 six were born to him in Hebron, ^pwhere he reigned for seven years and six months. ^qAnd he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 5 ^rThese were born to him in Jerusalem: ^sShimea, Shobab, Nathan and ^tSolomon, four by ^uBath-shua, the daughter of ^uAmmiel; 6 then Ibhar, ^vElishama, Eliphelet, 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 8 Elishama, ^wEliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 9 All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, ^xand Tamar was their sister.

10 The son of Solomon was ^yRehoboam, ^zAbijah his son, ^aAsa his son, ^bJehoshaphat his son, 11 ^cJoram his son, ^dAhaziah his son, ^eJoash his son, 12 ^fAmaziah his son, ^gAzariah his son, ^hJotham his son, 13 ⁱAhaz his son, ^jHezekiah his son, ^kManasseh his son, 14 ^lAmon his son, ^mJosiah his son. 15 The sons of Josiah: ⁿJohanan the firstborn, the second ^oJehoiakim, the third ^pZedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16 The descendants of ^qJehoiakim: ^rJeconiah his son, ^sZedekiah his son; 17 and the sons of Jeconiah, the ^tcaptive: ^uShealtiel his son, 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah; 19 and the sons of Pedaiah: ^vZerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of ^vZerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister; 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five. 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son¹ Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah. 22 The son² of Shecaniah: ^wShemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: ^xHattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

Descendants of Judah

4 ^yThe sons of Judah: ^zPerez, Hezron, ^aCarmi, Hur, and Shobal. 2 ^bReaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the ^cZorathites. 3 These were the sons¹ of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi, 4 and ^dPenuel fathered ^eGedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of ^fEphrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 5 ^gAshhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah; 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 8 Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum. 9 Jabez was ^hmore honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”² 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm³ so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked. 11 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. 12 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. 13 The sons of ⁱKenaz: ^jOthniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.⁴ 14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim,⁵ so-called because they were craftsmen. 15 The sons of ^kCaleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son⁶ of Elah: Kenaz. 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married;⁷ and she conceived and bore⁸ Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. 18 And his Judahite wife bore ^lJered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth. 21 The sons of ^mShelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea; 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem⁹ (now the records¹⁰ are ancient). 23 These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king’s service.

Descendants of Simeon

24 ⁿThe sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25 Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, ^onor did all their clan multiply ^plike the men of Judah. 28 ^qThey lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, 29 ^rBilhah, Ezem, ^sTolad, 30 ^sBethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, 31 Beth-marcaboth, ^tHazar-susim, ^tBeth-biri, and ^tShaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. 32 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities, 33 along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as ^uBaal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.

34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 37 Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah— 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, ^vand their fathers’ houses increased greatly. 39 They journeyed to the entrance of ^wGedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks, 40 where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, ^xquiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham. 41 ^yThese, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, ^zand settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to ^aMount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43 And they defeated ^bthe remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

Descendants of Reuben

5 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (^cfor he was the firstborn, but because ^dhe defiled his father’s couch, ^ehis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son; 2 ^fthough Judah became strong among his brothers and a ^gchief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph), 3 the ^hsons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 6 Beerah his son, whom ⁱTiglath-pileser¹ king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites. 7 And his kinsmen by their clans, ^jwhen the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, son of ^kShema, son of Joel, who lived in ^lAroer, as far as ^mNebo and ⁿBaal-meon. 9 He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied ^oin the land of Gilead. 10 And in the days of Saul they waged war against the ^pHagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

Descendants of Gad

11 The sons of Gad lived over against them in the land of Bashan as far as ^qSalecah: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 13 And their kinsmen according to their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven. 14 These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers’ houses, 16 and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of ^rSharon to their limits. 17 All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of ^sJotham king of Judah, and in the days of ^tJeroboam king of Israel.

18 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, ^uexpert in war, 44,760, able to go to war. 19 They waged war against the ^vHagrites, ^wJetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 20 And when they prevailed² over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, ^xfor they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea ^ybecause they trusted in him. 21 They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive. 22 For many fell, because the war was of God. And they lived ^zin their place until ^athe exile.

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

23 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, ^bSenir, and Mount Hermon. 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher,³ Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses. 25 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and ^cwhored ^dafter the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^ePul king of Assyria, the spirit of ^fTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them ^gto Halah, ^gHabor, Hara, and ^gthe river Gozan, to this day.

Descendants of Levi

6 ^hThe sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 ⁱThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 ^jThe children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. ^kThe sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 ^lmEleazar fathered ⁿPhinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, 5 Abishua fathered Bukki, Bukki fathered Uzzi, 6 Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered ^oMeraioth, 7 Meraioth fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, 8 ^pAhitub fathered ^qZadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, 9 Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, Azariah fathered Johanan, 10 and Johanan fathered Azariah (^rit was he who served as priest ^sin the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem). 11 ^lAzariah fathered ^tAmariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, 12 Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered ^uShallum, 13 Shallum fathered ^vHilkiah, Hilkiah fathered Azariah, 14 Azariah fathered ^wSeraiah, Seraiah fathered Jehozadak; 15 and ^xJehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile ^yby the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

16 ¹ The ^zsons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: ^aLibni and Shimei. 18 ^bThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 19 ^cThe sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers. 20 ^dOf Gershom: Libni his son, ^eJahath his son, Zimmah his son, 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 22 ^fThe sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 23 Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, 26 Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 28 The sons of Samuel: Joel² his firstborn, the second Abijah.³ 29 ^gThe sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.

31 These are the men ^hwhom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord ⁱafter the ark rested there. 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order. 33 These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of ^jSamuel, 34 son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, 35 son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, 36 son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, 37 son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, 38 son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; 39 and his brother ^kAsaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, 40 son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah, 41 son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, 42 son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, 43 son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. 44 On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, 45 son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, 46 son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, 47 son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. 48 And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

49 But Aaron and his sons made offerings ^lon the altar of burnt offering and on ^mthe altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and ⁿto make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 50 ^oThese are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54 These are their dwelling places according to their ^psettlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the ^qclans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot, 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, 56 ^rbut the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 ^sTo the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 58 Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 59 Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; 60 and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon,⁴ Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.