Descendants of Judah

Descendants of Simeon, and of Reuben

she bare Miriam, and Shammai, | same cities, unto Baal. These were and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. their habitations, and they have 18 And his wife 1 the Jewess bare their genealogy. 34 And MeshoJered the father of Gedor, and He- bab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the ber the father of Soco, and Jeku- son of Amaziah, 35 and Joel, and thiel the father of Zanoah. And Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son these are the sons of Bithiah the of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36 and daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshotook. 19 And the sons of the wife haiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 37 and Ziza were the father of Keilah the Gar- the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, mite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. the son of Jedaiah, the son of 20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-38 and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. these mentioned by name were And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and princes in their families: and their Ben-zoheth. 21 The sons of Shelah fathers' houses increased greatly. the son of Judah: Er the father of 39 And they went to the entrance Lecah, and Laadah the father of of Gedor, even unto the east side of Mareshah, and the families of the the valley, to seek pasture for their house of them that wrought fine flocks. 40 And they found fat paslinen, of the house of Ashbea; 22 ture and good, and the land was and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for and Joash, and Saraph, who had they that dwelt there aforetime dominion in Moab, and Jashubi- were of Ham. 41 And these writlehem. And the 2 records ten by name came in the days of ancient. 23 These were the pot- Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote ters, and the inhabitants of Netaim their tents, and the Meunim that and Gederah: there they dwelt with were found there, and 7destroyed the king for his work. them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43 And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and have dwelt there unto this day.

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24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, 5 Jarib, 6 Zerah, Shaul; 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his. son, Mishma his son. 26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah. 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 29 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 30 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 31 and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. 32 And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 33 and all their villages that were round about the 1 Or, Ha-jehudijah

2 Heb. words. 3 Or, those that dwelt among plantations and hedges 4 In Gen. 46. 10, Ex. 6. 15, Jemuel. 5 In Gen. 46. 10, Jachin. 6 In Gen. 46. 10, Zohar.

first-born of Israel (for he was

And the sons of Reuben the

the first-born; but, forasmuch as he
defiled his father's couch, his birth-
right was given unto the sons of
Joseph the son of Israel; and the
genealogy is not to be reckoned
after the birthright. 2 For Judah
prevailed above his brethren, and
of him came the prince; but the
birthright was Joseph's), 3 the sons
of Reuben the first-born of Israel:
Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
Carmi. 4 The sons of Joel: She
maiah his son, Gog his son, Shim
8 Or, leader

7 Heb. devoted them.

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Descendants of Gad. War of Transjordanic Tribes. Half-tribe of Manasseh his son, 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 6 Beerah his son, whom 1Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. 7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon: 9 and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. 10 And in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.

Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of 5 men a hundred thousand. 22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.

23 And the children of the halftribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon. 24 And these were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

11 And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salecah: 12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 13 And their brethren of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses. 16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its 2 towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. 17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king*

25 And they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.

of Judah, and in the days of Jere6 The sons of Levi: "Gershon,

boam king of Israel.

18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war. 19 And they made war with the Hagrites, with

1 In 2 K. 15. 29; 16. 7, Tiglath-pileser.
Heb. daughters. 8 Or, pasture lands
Teb. goings forth.

Kohath, and Merari. 2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, 5 and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, 6 and Uzzi be gat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, 7 Meraioth begat AmCh. 5. 27 in Heb. 5 Heb. souls of men.

6 In ver. 16, Gershom.

Descendants of Levi. Levite Singers. Levite Priests

ariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, 31 And these are they whom 8 and Ahitub begat Zadok, and David set over the service of song Zadok begat Ahimaaz, 9 and Ahim- in the house of Jehovah, after that aaz begat Azariah, and Azariah be- the ark had rest. 32 And they mingat Johanan, 10 and Johanan begat istered with song before the taberAzariah (he it is that executed the nacle of the tent of meeting, until priest's office in the house that Solo- Solomon had built the house of Jemon built in Jerusalem), 11 and hovah in Jerusalem: and they Azariah begat Amariah, and Am-12 waited on their office according to ariah begat Ahitub, 12 and Ahitub their order. 33 And these are they begat Zadok, and Zadok begat that 12 waited, and their sons. Of 1Shallum, 13 and Shallum begat the sons of the Kohathites: Heman Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Aza- the singer, the son of Joel, the son riah, 14 and Azariah begat Seraiah, of Samuel, 34 the son of Elkanah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; 15 the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, and Jebozadak went into captivity, the son of 13 Toah, 35 the son of when Jehovah carried away Judah 14 Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebu- of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 36 chadnezzar. the son of Elkanah, the son of 15 Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. 39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, 40 the. son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, 43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom. the son of Levi. 44 And on the left hand their brethren the sons of Merari: 16 Ethan the son of 17 Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 48 And their brethren the Levites were 18 appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

*16 The sons of Levi: 2Gershom,
Kohath, and Merari. 17 And these
are the names of the sons of Ger-
shom: Libni and Shimei. 18 And
the sons of Kohath were Amram,
and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. And these are the families
of the Levites according to their
fathers' houses. 20 Of Gershom:
Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zim-
mah his son, 21 3Joah his son, 4 Iddo
his son, Zerah his son, 5 Jeatherai
his son.
22 The sons of Kohath:
Amminadab his son, Korah his
son, Assir his son, 23 Elkanah his
son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir
his son, 24 Tahath his son, 7Uriel
his son, Uzziah his: son, and Shaul his
son. 25 And the sons of Elkanah:
Amasai, and Ahimoth. 26 As for
Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah:
Zophai his son, and Nahath his
son, 27 10 Eliab his son, Jeroham his
son, Elkanah his son. 28 And the
sons of Samuel: the first-born, 11 Joel,
and the second Abijah. 29 The sons of
Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei
his son, Uzzah his son, 30 Shimea his
son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
Ch. 6. 1 in Heb. 1 In ch. 9. 11, Meshullam.

2 In ver. 1, Gershon.
4 In ver. 41, Adaiah.
In ver. 2, 18, 38, Izhar.

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3 In ver. 42, Ethan.
5 In ver. 41, Ethni..

In ver. 36, Zephaniah, Azariah, Joel.

8 In ver. 35, Zuph.

10 In ver. 34, Eliel.

9 In ver. 34, Toah.

11 See ver. 33, and 1 8. 8. 2. The Hebrew text

has, Vashni, and Abiah.

49 But Aaron and his sons 19 offered upon the altar of burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense, for all the

Dwelling-places of the Levites. Cities of the Levites

work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54 Now these are their dwellingplaces according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot), 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it; 56 but the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 58 and1Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, 59 and 2 Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

61 And unto the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 62 And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. 65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of

1 In Josh. 21. 15, Holon. 2 In Josh. 21. 16, Ain. 3 In Josh. 21. 18, Almon.

the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

66 And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. 67 And they gave unto them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hillcountry of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, 68 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs, 69 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the halftribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 73 and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, 75 and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.

77 Unto the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, 79 and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, 81 and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

4 See Josh. 21. 22-39, where some of the names are different.