1 Sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. 2 And Reaiah son of Shobal begot Jahath, and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad; these [are] families of the Zorathite. 3 And these [are] of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister [is] Hazzelelponi; 4 and Penuel [is] father of Gedor, and Ezer father of Hushah. These [are] sons of Hur, firstborn of Ephratah, father of Beth-Lehem. 5 And to Ashhur father of Tekoa were two wives, Helah and Naarah; 6 and Naarah bears to him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari: these [are] sons of Naarah. 7 And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan. 8 And Coz begot Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum. 9 And Jabez is honored above his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I have brought forth with grief.” 10 And Jabez calls to the God of Israel, saying, “If blessing You bless me, then You have made my border great, and Your hand has been with me, and You have kept [me] from evil—not to grieve me”; and God brings in that which he asked. 11 And Chelub brother of Shuah begot Mehir; he [is] father of Eshton. 12 And Eshton begot Beth-Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah father of Ir-Nahash; these [are] men of Rechah. 13 And sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath. 14 And Meonothai begot Ophrah, and Seraiah begot Joab father of the Valley of the Craftsmen, for they were craftsmen. 15 And sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and sons of Elah: even Kenaz. 16 And sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. 17 And sons of Ezra: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bears Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa. 18 And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered father of Gedor, and Heber father of Socho, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. And these [are] sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took, 19 and sons of the wife of Hodiah sister of Nahom: Abi-Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. 20 And sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Hanon, and Tilon; and sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-Zoheth. 21 Sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er father of Lecah, and Laadah father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the service of fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 22 and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled over Moab and Jashubi-Lehem; and these things [are] ancient. 23 They [are] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; they dwelt there with the king in his work. 24 Sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 26 And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. 27 And to Shimei [are] sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brothers there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah. 28 And they dwell in Beer-Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shaul, 29 and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad, 30 and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag, 31 and in Beth-Marcaboth, and in Hazar-Susim, and in Beth-Birei, and in Shaarim; these [are] their cities until the reigning of David. 32 And their villages [are] Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan—five cities, 33 and all their villages that [are] around these cities to Ba‘al; these [are] their dwellings, and they have their genealogy: 34 even Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah son of Amaziah, 35 and Joel, and Jehu son of Josibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, 36 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 37 and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. 38 These who are coming in by name [are] princes in their families, and the house of their fathers has broken forth into a multitude; 39 and they go to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, to seek pasture for their flock, 40 and they find pasture, fat and good, and the land broad of sides, and quiet, and safe, for those dwelling there before are of Ham. 41 And these who are written by name come in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and strike their tents, and the habitations that have been found there, and devote them to destruction to this day, and dwell in their stead, because pasture for their flock [is] there. 42 And of them, of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men have gone to Mount Seir, and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head, 43 and they strike the remnant of those escaped of Amalek, and dwell there to this day.
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1 Chronicles 4 Literal Standard Version
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People
Adiel
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Aharhel
Son of Harum, whose clans are listed with the descendants of Koz.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:8
Ahumai
Ahuzzam
Listed first among the sons Naarah bore to Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:6
Allon
Son of Jedaiah and father of Shiphi in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Ziza.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Amaziah
Named as the father of Joshah, one of the Simeonite clan leaders.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:34
Amnon
Listed first among the four sons of Shimon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Anub
Son of Koz, listed with Zobebah and the clans of Aharhel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:8
Asaiah
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Asarel
Listed fourth among the four sons of Jehallelel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:16
Ashhur
Born to Hezron's wife Abijah after Hezron died and called the father of Tekoa (that is, the founder or head of that town's families); he had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 2:24; 1 Chronicles 4:5
Asiel
Named as the father of Seraiah, in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Jehu.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:35
Benaiah
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Bithiah
Pharaoh's daughter and wife of Mered, who bore Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17; 1 Chronicles 4:18
Chelub
Brother of Shuhah and father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:11
Elah
Son of Caleb son of Jephunneh and father of Kenaz.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:15
Elioenai
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Epher
Er
Son of Shelah son of Judah, called the father of Lecah (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:21
Eshton
Son of Mehir and father of Beth-rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:11; 1 Chronicles 4:12
Etam
Man named as the father of Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash and of a sister, Hazzelelponi.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:3
Ethnan
Listed third among the sons of Helah, wife of Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:7
Ezer
Listed among the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, and called the father of Hushah (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:4
Ezrah
Man named as the father of Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17
Haahashtari
Listed fourth among the sons Naarah bore to Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:6
Hammuel
Harum
Named as the father of Aharhel, whose clans are listed with the descendants of Koz.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:8
Hathath
Hazzelelponi
Sister of Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash, named as their sister.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:3
Heber
Son of Mered by his Judean wife, called the father of Soco (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:18
Helah
One of the two wives of Ashhur the father of Tekoa; her sons were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan and Koz.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:5; 1 Chronicles 4:7
Hepher
Listed second among the sons Naarah bore to Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:6
Hodiah
Man whose wife, the sister of Naham, bore sons who were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite (the KJV reads Hodiah as the wife).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:19
Idbash
Listed third among the three sons of Etam.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:3
Iru
Listed first among the sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:15
Ishbah
Son of Mered and Bithiah, called the father of Eshtemoa (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17
Ishi
Named as the father of Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, who led five hundred Simeonites to Mount Seir.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:42
Ishi
Man whose descendants are listed as Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Ishma
Listed second among the three sons of Etam.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:3
Jaakobah
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Jabez
A man more honorable than his brothers whose mother named him Jabez because she bore him in pain; he called on the God of Israel for blessing and a larger territory, and God…
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:9; 1 Chronicles 4:10
Jahath
Son of Reaiah and father of Ahumai and Lahad, the clans of the Zorathites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:2
Jalon
Jamlech
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:34
Jedaiah
Son of Shimri and father of Allon in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Ziza.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Jehallelel
Man named as the father of Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:16
Jehu
Son of Joshibiah and one of the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:35
Jekuthiel
Son of Mered by his Judean wife, called the father of Zanoah (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:18
Jered
Son of Mered by his Judean wife, called the father of Gedor (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:18
Jeshohaiah
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Jesimiel
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:36
Jether
Jezreel
Listed first among the three sons of Etam.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:3
Joab
Son of Seraiah, called the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:14
Joash
Son of Shelah son of Judah who, with Saraph, ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem (these names are from ancient records).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:22
Joel
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:35
Jokim
Named among the sons of Shelah son of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:22
Joshah
Son of Amaziah and one of the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:34
Joshibiah
Son of Seraiah and father of Jehu, the Simeonite clan leader.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:35
Kenaz
Son of Elah, and so a grandson of Caleb son of Jephunneh.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:15
Koz
Listed fourth among the sons of Helah, wife of Ashhur, and father of Anub, Zobebah and the clans of Aharhel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:8
Laadah
Son of Shelah son of Judah, called the father of Mareshah and of the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:21
Lahad
Mehir
Meonothai
Son of Othniel and father of Ophrah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:13; 1 Chronicles 4:14
Mered
Son of Ezrah who married Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, and also took a Judean wife.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17; 1 Chronicles 4:18
Meshobab
Named among the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor in search of pasture.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:34
Mibsam
Listed second among the sons of Shaul son of Simeon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:25
Miriam
Listed first among the children Bithiah bore to Mered.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17
Mishma
Son of Shaul son of Simeon and father of Hammuel, Zaccur and Shimei.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:25; 1 Chronicles 4:26
Naam
Listed third among the sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:15
Naarah
One of the two wives of Ashhur the father of Tekoa; she bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni and Haahashtari.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:5; 1 Chronicles 4:6
Neariah
Son of Ishi and one of four leaders of five hundred Simeonites who went to Mount Seir and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:42
Paseah
Listed second among the children of Eshton.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:12
Pelatiah
Son of Ishi and one of four leaders of five hundred Simeonites who went to Mount Seir and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:42
Penuel
Listed among the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, and called the father of Gedor (a town).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:4
Reaiah
Rephaiah
Son of Ishi and one of four leaders of five hundred Simeonites who went to Mount Seir and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:42
Rinnah
Listed second among the four sons of Shimon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Saraph
Son of Shelah son of Judah who, with Joash, ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:22
Seraiah
Son of Asiel and father of Joshibiah, in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Jehu.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:35
Seraiah
Son of Kenaz and brother of Othniel, and father of Joab, the father of those who lived in Ge-harashim.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:13; 1 Chronicles 4:14
Shallum
Listed first among the sons of Shaul son of Simeon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:25
Shammai
Listed second among the children Bithiah bore to Mered.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:17
Shemaiah
Named as the father of Shimri in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Ziza.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Shimei
Son of Mishma who had sixteen sons and six daughters, though his brothers did not have many children, so their clan did not grow as numerous as the sons of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:26; 1 Chronicles 4:27
Shimon
Man named as the father of Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Shimri
Son of Shemaiah and father of Jedaiah in the ancestry of the Simeonite leader Ziza.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Shiphi
Son of Allon and father of Ziza, the Simeonite clan leader.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Shobal
Son of Hur, called the father of Kiriath-jearim (a town), with descendants including Haroeh, the clans of Kiriath-jearim and Reaiah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 2:50; 1 Chronicles 2:52; 1 Chronicles 4:1
Shuhah
Tehinnah
Son of Eshton, called the father of Ir-nahash; these were the men of Recah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:12
Temeni
Listed third among the sons Naarah bore to Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:6
Tilon
Listed fourth among the four sons of Shimon.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Tiria
Listed third among the four sons of Jehallelel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:16
Uzziel
Son of Ishi and one of four leaders of five hundred Simeonites who went to Mount Seir and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:42
Zaccur
Zereth
Listed first among the sons of Helah, wife of Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:7
Ziph
Listed first among the four sons of Jehallelel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:16
Ziphah
Listed second among the four sons of Jehallelel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:16
Ziza
Son of Shiphi and one of the Simeonite clan leaders who came in the days of King Hezekiah to the entrance of Gedor.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:37
Zobebah
Son of Koz, listed with Anub and the clans of Aharhel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:8
Zohar
Listed second among the sons of Helah, wife of Ashhur.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:7
Zoheth
Listed first among the descendants of Ishi.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:20
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 46:12; Genesis 38:29; Luke 3:33; 1 Chronicles 2:18; 1 Chronicles 2:9
- 2 1 Chronicles 2:52–54; Joshua 15:33; Judges 13:25
- 3 2 Chronicles 11:6; Judges 15:11
- 4 1 Chronicles 2:50; 1 Chronicles 4:18; 1 Chronicles 4:39; 1 Chronicles 2:19; Joshua 15:36
- 5 1 Chronicles 2:24
- 9 1 Samuel 4:21; Genesis 35:18; 1 Chronicles 7:23; Acts 17:11; Genesis 34:19
- 10 Matthew 7:7–11; Psalm 116:1–4; Proverbs 10:22; Jeremiah 33:3; Isaiah 41:10
- 13 Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9–11
- 14 2 Kings 24:14; Nehemiah 11:35
- 15 Numbers 13:6; Numbers 14:24; Numbers 14:30; Joshua 14:6–14; Joshua 15:13–20
- 17 1 Chronicles 4:19; 1 Chronicles 6:57; 1 Samuel 30:28; Joshua 15:50; 1 Chronicles 21:24
- 18 1 Chronicles 4:39; 1 Chronicles 4:4; 1 Chronicles 2:42; Joshua 15:58; Joshua 15:34–35
- 19 Joshua 15:44; 1 Samuel 23:1–13
- 21 Genesis 38:5; Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 9:5
- 23 Psalm 81:6
- 24 Genesis 46:10; Numbers 26:12–14; Exodus 6:15
- 27 Numbers 26:14; Numbers 26:22; Numbers 2:13; Numbers 2:4
- 28 Joshua 19:2–3; Joshua 19:9; Joshua 15:28–29
- 29 Joshua 19:3–4
- 30 Nehemiah 11:28; 1 Samuel 27:6; 1 Samuel 30:1; Joshua 15:31; 1 Chronicles 12:1
- 31 Joshua 19:5–6
- 32 Joshua 19:7
- 33 Joshua 19:8
- 38 1 Chronicles 5:24; Genesis 6:4
- 39 1 Chronicles 4:4; 1 Chronicles 4:18; Joshua 15:58; Joshua 12:13
- 40 Judges 18:7–10; Genesis 9:22–29; Genesis 10:6; Psalm 78:51; Psalm 105:23
- 41 Acts 17:26; 2 Kings 18:8–12; Judges 10:12; Jeremiah 49:20; Numbers 32:1–4
- 42 Genesis 36:8–9; Deuteronomy 1:2
- 43 1 Samuel 30:17; 2 Samuel 8:12; 1 Samuel 15:7–8; Deuteronomy 25:17–19; Exodus 17:14–16
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