Chapter 2 These are the sons of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher,
the sons of Judah, Ur, and Onan, and Shelah, which three were born unto him
of the daughter of Shua, the Canaanites.
And Ur, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord,
and he slew him.
And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Behempheres, and Zerah.
All the sons of Judah were five, the sons of Pheres, Hezron, and Hamel,
and the sons of Zerah, Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dara,
five of them in all, and the sons of Carmi, Acher, the troubler of Israel,
who transgressed in the thing accursed.
And the sons of Ethan, Azariah, the sons also of Hezron, that were born
unto him, Jerameel, and Ram, and Kelubbi.
And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Narshon, prince of the children of
Judah.
And Narshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat
Jesse.
And Jesse begat his firstborn, Eliab, and Abinadab, the second,
and Shema, the third, Nathanael, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,
Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh, whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.
And the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai, and Joab, and Azahel, three.
And Abigail bear Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jetha, the Ishmaelite.
And Caleb, the son of Hezron, begat children of Azubah, his wife, and of
Jereoth.
Her sons are these, Jesha, and Shobab, and Ardan.
And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bear him Hur.
And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaliel.
And afterward, Hezron went in to the daughter of Macchae, the father of Gilead,
whom he married when he was threescore years old.
And she bear him Seagub.
And Seagub begat Jeor, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
And he took Gesha and Arum, with the towns of Jeor, from them, with Keneth,
and the towns thereof, even threescore cities.
All these belonged to the sons of Macchae, the father of Gilead.
And after that, Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrath.
Then Abiah, Hezron's wife, bear him Asher, the father of Tekoa.
And the sons of Jeremiel, the firstborn of Hezron, were Ram, the firstborn,
and Bunah, and Oran, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
Jeremiel had also another wife, whose name was Atara.
She was the mother of Onam.
And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jeremiel, were Maaz, and Jamin,
and Echah.
And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jadah.
And the sons of Shammai, Nadab, and Abishah.
And the name of the wife of Abishah was Abihel.
And she bear him Arban, and Molid.
And the sons of Nadab, Selid, and Appium.
But Selid died without children.
And the sons of Appium, Ishai.
And the sons of Ishai, Shishan.
And the children of Shishan, Alai.
And the sons of Jadah, the brother of Shammai, Jetha, and Jonathan.
And Jetha died without children.
And the sons of Jonathan, Pilith, and Zazar.
These were the sons of Jeremiel.
Now Shishan had no sons, but daughters.
And Shishan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jahar.
And Shishan gave his daughter to Jahar, his servant, to wife.
And she bear him Atai.
And Atai begat Nathan.
And Nathan begat Zebad.
And Zebad begat Eflal.
And Eflal begat Obed.
And Obed begat Jehu.
And Jehu begat Azariah.
And Azariah begat Heliz.
And Heliz begat Eliezer.
And Eliezer begat Sisamai.
And Sisamai begat Shalem.
And Shalem begat Jachemiah.
And Jachemiah begat Elishema.
Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jeremiel, were Misha, his firstborn,
which was the father of Ziph.
And the sons of Marisha, the father of Hebron.
And the sons of Hebron, Korah and Tapuah and Rechem and Shema.
And Shema begat Rahem, the father of Jochum.
And Rechem begat Shammai.
And the son of Shammai was Mahon.
And Mahon was the father of Bethsur.
And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bear Haran and Moser and Gazes.
And Haran begat Gazes.
And the sons of Jardai, Regem and Jotham and Geshen and Pelit and Ephah and Sheaf.
Meachah, Caleb's concubine, bear Sheba and Terhena.
She bear also Sheaf, the father of Madmanah, Sheva, the father of Macbina,
and the father of Gibeah.
And the daughter of Caleb was Axer.
These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrata.
Shobel, the father of Keerjath-Durim.
Salma, the father of Bethlehem.
Herif, the father of Bethgeda.
And Shobel, the father of Keerjath-Durim, had sons, Haroah and half of the
Manahethites.
And the families of Keerjath-Durim, the Ithrites and the Puhites, and the
Shumethites and the Mishraites.
Of them came the Zerethites and the Eshterulites.
The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and the Netophethites, Aseroth, the house of Joab,
and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
And the families of the scribes, which dwelt at Jabez.
The Tyrethites, the Shimeathites, and Sukathites.
These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.