Chapter 2

¹These [are] sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ²Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ³Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him to death. ⁴And Tamar his daughter-in-law hath borne to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [are] five. ⁵Sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul. ⁶And sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five. ⁷And sons of Carmi: Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing. ⁸And sons of Ethan: Azariah. ⁹And sons of Hezron who were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. ¹⁰And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah; ¹¹and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, ¹²and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse; ¹³and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, ¹⁴Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵Ozem the sixth, David the seventh, ¹⁶and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El -- three. ¹⁷And Abigail hath borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa [is] Jether the Ishmeelite. ¹⁸And Caleb son of Hezron hath begotten Azubah, Isshah, and Jerioth; and these [are] her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹And Azubah dieth, and Caleb taketh to him Ephrath, and she beareth to him Hur. ²⁰And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel. ²¹And afterwards hath Hezron gone in unto a daughter of Machir father of Gilead, and he hath taken her, and he [is] a son of sixty years, and she beareth to him Segub. ²²And Segub begat Jair, and he hath twenty and three cities in the land of Gilead, ²³and he taketh Geshur and Aram, the small villages of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its small towns, sixty cities -- all these [belonged to] the sons of Machir father of Gilead. ²⁴And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, then the wife of Hezron, Abijah, even beareth to him Asshur, father of Tekoa. ²⁵And sons of Jerahmeel, first-born of Hezron, are: the first-born Ram, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. ²⁶And Jerahmeel hath another wife, and her name [is] Atarah, she [is] mother of Onam. ²⁷And sons of Ram, first-born of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. ²⁸And sons of Onam are Shammai and Jada. And sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹And the name of the wife of Abishur [is] Abihail, and she beareth to him Ahban and Molid. ³⁰And sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; and Seled dieth without sons. ³¹And sons of Appaim: Ishi. And sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. ³²And sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether dieth without sons. ³³And sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were sons of Jerahmeel. ³⁴And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters, and Sheshan hath a servant, an Egyptian, and his name [is] Jarha, ³⁵and Sheshan giveth his daughter to Jarha his servant for a wife, and she beareth to him Attai; ³⁶and Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, ³⁷and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, ³⁸and Obed begat Jehu, ³⁹and Jehu begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, ⁴⁰and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum, ⁴¹and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama. ⁴²And sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his first-born, he [is] father of Ziph; and sons of Mareshah: Abi-Hebron. ⁴³And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. ⁴⁴And Shema begat Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begat Shammai. ⁴⁵And a son of Shammai [is] Maon, and Maon [is] father of Beth-Zur. ⁴⁶And Ephah concubine of Caleb bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez. ⁴⁷And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. ⁴⁸The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bare Sheber and Tirhanah; ⁴⁹and she beareth Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb [is] Achsa. ⁵⁰These were sons of Caleb son of Hur, first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim, ⁵¹Salma father of Beth-Lehem, Hareph father of Beth-Gader. ⁵²And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite; ⁵³and the families of Kirjath-Jearim: the Ithrite, and the Puhite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite: from these went out the Zareathite, and the Eshtaulite. ⁵⁴Sons of Salma: Beth-Lehem, and the Netophathite, Atroth, Beth-Joab, and half of the Menuhothite, the Zorite; ⁵⁵and the families of the scribes the inhabitants of Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Suchathites. They [are] the Kenites, those coming of Hammath father of the house of Rechab.