OET-RV 1 CHR Chapter 2

2 These were Yisrael’s sons: Reuben, Shimeon (Simeon), Levi, and Yehudah (Judah), Yissaskar (Issachar), and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Yosef (Joseph), Benyamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher.

3 Yehudah’s sons (with the Canaanite woman Bat-Shua) were Er, and Onan, and Shelah. (Yehudah’s eldest son, Er, was evil in Yahweh’s eyes, and he killed him.) 4 His daughter-in-law Tamar had twin boys named Perets and Zerah, so altogether Yehudah had five sons.

5 Perets’s sons were Hetsron and Hamul. 6 Zerah had five sons: Zimri, Eytan, Heyman, Kalkol, and Dara. 7 Zimri had a son named Karmi. Karmi had a son named Akar who brought trouble into Yisrael by violating a ban on devoted things.[ref] 8 Eytan’s son was Azaryah.

9 Hetsron had three sons: Yerahme’el, Ram, and Keluvay.[fn]

10 Ram was the father of Amminadav, and Amminadav was the father of Nahshon—a leader of the tribe of Yehudah. 11 Nahshon was the father of Salma. Salma was the father of Boaz. 12 Boaz was the father of Oved. Oved was the father of Yishay (Jesse). 13 Yishay had his son Eliav first, Abinadab second, Shimea third. 14 Netanel fourth, Raddai fifth, 15 Otsem sixth, then David last. 16 Their sisters were Tseruyah and Avigayil. Tseruyah’s three sons were Avshai, Yoav (Joab), and Asah’el. 17 Avigayil had Amasa. Amasa’s father was Yeter, a descendant of Yishmael (Ishmael).

18 Hetsron’s third son Kalev (Caleb) had sons with Azuvah, one of his wives. The sons were Yesher, Shovav, and Ardon. (The other wife’s name was Yeriot.) 19 When Azuvah died, Kalev married Efrat, and they had a son named Hur. 20 Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Betsal’el.

21 Later, when Hetsron was sixty years old, he had sexual intercourse with a daughter of Makir from the region of Gilead and married her. Hetsron’s new wife gave birth to their son Seguv. 22 Seguv was the father of Yair, and Yair controlled twenty-three cities in the Gilead region. 23 But Geshur and Aram captured Havvot-Yair and Kenat from them, plus their surrounding towns—sixty towns in all populated by descendants of Makir (the father of Gilead). 24 After Hetsron’s death in Kalev-Efratah, then his wife Aviyyah bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

25 Hetsron’s oldest son was Yerahme’el and his sons were Ram (the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Otsem, and Ahiyyah. 26 Yerahme’el had another wife named Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. 27 The sons of Yerahme’el’s oldest son, Ram, were Maats, Yamin, and Eker. 28 Onam’s sons were Shammai and Yada, and Shammai’s sons were Nadav and Avishur.

29 Abishur’s wife was Avihayil, and their sons were Ahban and Molid. 30 Nadav’s sons were Seled and Appayim. (Seled died childless.) 31 Appayim’s son was Yishi, Yishi’s son was Sheshan, and Sheshan’s son was Ahlai.

32 The sons of Shammai’s brother Yada were Yeter and Yonatan. (Yeter died childless.) 33 Yonatan’s sons were Pelet and Zaza.

Those were the descendants of Yerahme’el.

34 Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. He had a male servant from Egypt whose name was Yarha 35 and Sheshan gave his daughter to him for a wife and they had a son Attai. 36 Attai was the father of Natan, and Natan was the father of Zavad. 37 Zabad was the father of Eflal, and Eflal was the father of Oved. 38 Oved was the father of Yehu, and Yehu was the father of Azaryah. 39 Azaryah was the father of Helets, and Helets was the father of Eleasah. 40 Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum. 41 Shallum was the father of Yekamyah, and Yekamyah was the father of Elishama.

42 The oldest son of Yerahme’el’s brother Kalev was Meysha. Meysha was the father of Zif, and Zif was the father of Mareshah. Mareshah was the father of Hevron. 43 Hevron’s sons were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. 44 Shema was the father of Raham. Raham was the father of Yorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai. 45 Shammai’s son was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beyt-Tsur. 46 Kalev had a slave wife named Eyfah who gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran had a son who he also named Gazez. 47 Yahdai’s sons were: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Eyfah, and Shaaph.

48 Kalev had another slave wife named Maacah who gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 She also gave birth to Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), Sheva (father of Makbenah and Gibea), and Kalev’s daughter Aksah.

50 These people were also descendants of Kalev: His other wife Efratah had a son Hur. Hur’s sons were Shobal (founder of Kiriat-Yearim city), 51 Salma (founder of Beyt-Lehem), and Haref (founder of Beyt-Gader). 52 The descendants of Shobal (founder of Kiriat-Yearim) were Haroeh, half of the Manahatites, 53 and the clans from Kiriat-Yearim: the Yitrites, the Putites, the Shumatites, and the Mishraites. From those came the Zoratites and Eshtaolites. 54 Salma’s descendants were the people of Beyt-Lehem, the Netofatites, the clan of Atrot-Beyt-Yoav, half of the Manahatites, who were also Zorites. 55 The clans of the scribes lived at Yabez: the Tiratites, the Shimeatites, and the Sucatites. These, the Kenites who came from Hammat, the ancestor of Rekav’s family.