1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi. 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer 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 Naarah. 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.” 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested. 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim, for they were craftsmen. 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz. 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and Mered’s wife bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 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 Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work. 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and 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 didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah. 28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, 30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign. 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept their genealogy. 34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah— 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly. 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40 They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were descended from Ham. 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents and the Meunim who were found there; and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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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
Ephrath
Caleb son of Hezron married her after Azubah died and she bore him Hur, who is called the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 2:19; 1 Chronicles 2:50; 1 Chronicles 4:4
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
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
Naham
Named as the brother of the wife of Hodiah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 4:19
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
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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