1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
2 Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.
3 These belonged to the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
4 and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan.
8 Koz fathered Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother called him Jabez, for she said, "I bore him with pain."
10 Jabez cried to the God of Israel and said, "Oh, that you would truly bless me and widen my borders, that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it may not pain me!" And God brought about what he had asked.
11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.
13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah. Seraiah fathered Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.
15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The sons of Elah: Kenaz.
16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she conceived Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18 His Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered had taken.
19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;
22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. (The records are from long ago.)
23 These were the potters who dwelt at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there with the king, in his service.
24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul;
25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many sons, nor did all their clan increase as much as the sons of Judah.
28 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
30 Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31 Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
33 together with all the villages surrounding these cities, as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they had their own register of genealogy.
34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,
36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah:
38 these, mentioned by name, were chiefs in their clans, and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
39 They went toward the approach to Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, seeking pasture for their flocks.
40 They found fat, good pasture there, and the land was broad on both sides, quiet and undisturbed, for the former inhabitants were descended from Ham.
41 These men listed by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; they attacked the tents of those people and the Meunites who were there and devoted them to destruction, as it is to this day. Then they settled in their place, for there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 And some of them, five hundred men of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 They wiped out the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have dwelt there until this day.