1. The second lot came out for SIMEON, even for the tribe of the children of SIMEON according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

2. They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

3. Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,

4. Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

5. Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,

6. Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

7. Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

8. and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of SIMEON according to their families.

9. Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of SIMEON; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of SIMEON had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance.

3. Judah said to SIMEON his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So SIMEON went with him.

4. Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

5. They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

6. But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

7. Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8. The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

9. After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

10. Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

11. From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

12. Caleb said, "I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it."

13. Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

14. When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"

15. She said to him, "Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

16. The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

17. Judah went with SIMEON his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

24. The sons of SIMEON: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

25. Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and 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 didn't have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah.

28. They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,

29. at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,

30. at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,

31. at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David's reign.

32. Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

33. and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

34. Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,

35. Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

36. Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,

37. and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-

38. these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers' houses increased greatly.

39. They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

40. They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.

41. These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42. Some of them, even of the sons of SIMEON, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

43. They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.