The Living Bible (128 page)
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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.
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.
