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These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, +
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Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. +
3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's
daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in The LORD's sight; and he killed him.
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Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him
Perez and Zerah. All the sons of
Judah were five.
+ 5
The sons of Perez:
Hezron and Hamul.
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The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. +
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The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. +
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The son of Ethan: Azariah. +
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The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. +
10
Ram became the
father of Amminadab, and
Amminadab became the father of Nahshon,
prince of the children of Judah;
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and
Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
+12
and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; +
13
and
Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and
Abinadab the second, and
Shimea the third,
+14
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, +
15
Ozem the sixth,
David the seventh;
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and their sisters were
Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
+18
Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of
Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
+ 19
Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. +
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Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. +
21
Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of
Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
+22
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
+ 23
Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
+ 24
After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah,
Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
+25
The sons of
Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
+26
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. +
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The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. +
28
The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai:
Nadab and Abishur.
+29
The name of the wife of
Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
+30
The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children. +
31
The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. +
32
The sons of Jada the
brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
+33
The sons of Jonathan:
Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
+34
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. +
35
Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. +
36
Attai became the father of Nathan, and
Nathan became the father of Zabad,
+37
and
Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
+38
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, +
39
and
Azariah became the father of Helez, and
Helez became the father of Eleasah,
+40
and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, +
41
and
Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
+42
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were
Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of
Mareshah the father of Hebron.
+43
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. +
44
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and
Rekem became the father of Shammai.
+ 45
The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. +
46
Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and
Haran became the father of Gazez.
+47
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. +
48
Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. +
49
She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah,
Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
+50
These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah:
Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
+51
Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader. +
52
Shobal the father of Kiriath
Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
+53
The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. +
54
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. +
55
The families of
scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the
Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the
house of Rechab.
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
THE
FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES.
Commentary by ROBERT JAMIESON
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