The Living Bible (128 page)

1 Chronicles
2

The sons of
Israel
were: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.

    
³
 Judah had three sons by Bathshua, a girl from Canaan:
Er,
Onan, and Shelah. But the oldest son,
Er,
was so wicked that the Lord killed him.

    
⁴
 Then Er’s widow, Tamar, and her father-in-law, Judah, became the parents of twin sons,
Perez
and
Zerah.
So Judah had five sons.

    
⁵
 The sons of
Perez
were
Hezron
and Hamul.

    
⁶
 The sons of
Zerah
were: Zimri,
Ethan,
Heman, Calcol, and Dara.

    
⁷
 (Achan, the son of Carmi, was the man who robbed God and was such a troublemaker for his nation.)

    
⁸
 
Ethan’s
son was Azariah.

    
⁹
 The sons of
Hezron
were
Jerahmeel,
Ram, and Chelubai.

    
¹⁰
 Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of Israel.

    
¹¹
 Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz.

    
¹²
 Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of
Jesse.

    
¹³
 
Jesse’s
first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea,
¹⁴
 his fourth was Nethanel, his fifth was Raddai,
¹⁵
 his sixth was Ozem, and his seventh was David.
¹⁶
 He also had two girls (by the same wife) named
Zeruiah
and
Abigail.

    
Zeruiah’s
sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

    
¹⁷
 
Abigail,
whose husband was Jether from the land of Ishmael, had a son named Amasa.

    
¹⁸
 Caleb (the son of
Hezron
) had two wives,
Azubah
and Jerioth. These are the children of
Azubah:
Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

    
¹⁹
 After Azubah’s death, Caleb married Ephrath, who presented him with a son,
Hur.

    
²⁰
 
Hur’s
son was
Uri,
and
Uri’s
son was Bezalel.

    
²¹
 
Hezron
married Machir’s daughter at the age of sixty, and she presented him with a son,
Segub.
(Machir was also the father of Gilead.)

    
²²
 
Segub
was the father of Jair, who ruled
*
twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
²³
 But Geshur and Aram wrested these cities from him and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.

    
²⁴
 Soon after his father
Hezron’s
death, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father’s widow, and she gave birth to Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

    
²⁵
 These are the sons of
Jerahmeel
(the oldest son of
Hezron
):
Ram
(the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

    
²⁶
 
Jerahmeel’s
second wife Atarah was the mother of
Onam.

    
²⁷
 The sons of
Ram:
Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

    
²⁸
 
Onam’s
sons were
Shammai
and Jada.
Shammai’s
sons were
Nadab
and
Abishur.

    
²⁹
 The sons of
Abishur
and his wife Abihail were Ahban and Molid.

    
³⁰
 
Nadab’s
sons were
Seled
and
Appaim.
Seled
died without children,
³¹
 but
Appaim
had a son named
Ishi;
Ishi’s
son was
Sheshan;
and
Sheshan’s
son was Ahlai.

    
³²
 
Shammai’s
brother Jada had two sons,
Jether
and
Jonathan.
Jether
died without children,
³³
 but
Jonathan
had two sons named Peleth and Zaza.

    
^34-35
 Sheshan
*
had no sons, although he had several daughters. He gave one of his daughters to be the wife of Jarha, his Egyptian servant. And they had a son whom they named
Attai.

    
³⁶
 
Attai’s
son was Nathan; Nathan’s son was Zabad;
³⁷
 Zabad’s son was Ephlal; Ephlal’s son was Obed;
³⁸
 Obed’s son was Jehu; Jehu’s son was Azariah;
³⁹
 Azariah’s son was Helez; Helez’s son was Eleasah;
⁴⁰
 Eleasah’s son was Sismai; Sismai’s son was Shallum;
⁴¹
 Shallum’s son was Jekamiah; Jekamiah’s son was Elishama.

    
⁴²
 The oldest son of
Caleb
(
Jerahmeel’s
brother) was Mesha; he was the father of Ziph, who was father of Mareshah, who was the father of
Hebron.

    
⁴³
 The sons of
Hebron:
Korah, Tappuah,
Rekem,
and
Shema.

    
⁴⁴
 
Shema
was the father of Raham, who was the father of Jorkeam.
Rekem
was the father of
Shammai.

    
⁴⁵
 
Shammai’s
son was Maon, the father of Bethzur.

    
⁴⁶
 
Caleb’s
concubine Ephah bore him
Haran,
Moza, and Gazez;
Haran
had a son named Gazez.

    
⁴⁷
 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

    
^48-49
 Another of
Caleb’s
concubines, Maacah, bore him Sheber, Tirhanah, Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), and Sheva (the father of Machbenah and of Gibea).
Caleb
also had a daughter, whose name was Achsah.

    
⁵⁰
 The sons of Hur (who was the oldest son of
Caleb
*
and Ephrathah) were
Shobal
(the father of Kiriath-jearim),
⁵¹
 
Salma
(the father of Bethlehem), and Hareph (the father of Beth-gader).

    
⁵²
 
Shobal’s
sons included
Kiriath-jearim
and Haroeh, the ancestor of half of the Menuhoth tribe.

    
⁵³
 The families of
Kiriath-jearim
were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites (from whom descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites).

    
⁵⁴
 The descendants of
Salma
were his son Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites;
⁵⁵
 they also included the families of the writers living at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. All these are Kenites who descended from Hammath, the founder of the family of Rechab.

1 Chronicles
3

King David’s oldest son was Amnon, who was born to his wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel.

    
The second was Daniel, whose mother was Abigail from Carmel.

    
²
 The third was Absalom, the son of his wife Maacah, who was the daughter of King Talmai of Geshur.

    
The fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith.

    
³
 The fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital.

    
The sixth was Ithream, the son of his wife Eglah.

    
⁴
 These six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven and a half years. Then he moved the capital to Jerusalem, where he reigned another thirty-three years.

    
⁵
 While he was in Jerusalem, his wife Bathsheba
*
(the daughter of Ammiel) became the mother of his sons Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and
Solomon.

    
^6-8
 David also had nine other sons: Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

    
⁹
 (This list does not include the sons of his concubines.) David also had a daughter Tamar.

    
^10-14
 These are the descendants of King
Solomon:
Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram,
*
Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah,
*
Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon,
Josiah.

    
¹⁵
 The sons of
Josiah
were: Johanan,
Jehoiakim,
Zedekiah, Shallum.
*

    
¹⁶
 The sons of
Jehoiakim:
Jeconiah,
Zedekiah.

    
^17-18
 These are the sons who were born to King
Jeconiah
during the years that he was under house arrest: Shealtiel, Malchiram,
Pedaiah,
Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, Nedabiah.

    
^19-20
 
Pedaiah
was the father of
Zerubbabel
and Shimei.

    
Zerubbabel’s
children were: Meshullam,
Hananiah,
Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, Shelomith (a daughter).

    
^21-22
 
Hananiah’s
sons were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; Jeshaiah’s son was Rephaiah; Rephaiah’s son was Arnan; Arnan’s son was Obadiah; Obadiah’s son was Shecaniah. Shecaniah’s son was Shemaiah; Shemaiah had six sons, including Hattush, Igal, Bariah,
Neariah,
and Shaphat.

    
²³
 
Neariah
had three sons:
Elioenai,
Hizkiah, Azrikam.

    
²⁴
 
Elioenai
had seven sons: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, Anani.