1 Chronicles 2

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The sons of Israel

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

From Judah to David

³ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and He put him to death. ⁴ And 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. ⁶ And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. ⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully regarding the devoted things. ⁸ And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.

⁹ The sons of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. ¹⁰ Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, the leader of the sons of Judah. ¹¹ Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz. ¹² Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. ¹³ Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, ¹⁴ Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. ¹⁶ And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. ¹⁷ Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Caleb and Jerahmeel

¹⁸ Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹ When Azubah died, Caleb took Ephrath, and she bore him Hur. ²⁰ Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.

²¹ Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. ²² Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ²³ But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, with Kenath and its villages, 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: Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ²⁶ Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. ²⁷ The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. ²⁸ The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹ The name of Abishur's wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. ³⁰ The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died without sons. ³¹ The sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. ³² The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without sons. ³³ The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

³⁴ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha. ³⁵ So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai. ³⁶ Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. ³⁷ Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. ³⁸ Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. ³⁹ Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. ⁴⁰ Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. ⁴¹ Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

⁴² The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: 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 fathered Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem fathered 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 fathered Gazez. ⁴⁷ The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. ⁴⁸ Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. ⁴⁹ She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

⁵⁰ These were the sons of Caleb. The sons 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 And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these 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 And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Notes

• 2:3 The tribes begin with Judah, not with Reuben the firstborn, and Judah's families fill chapters 2-4. Chapter 5 gives the reason: Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came the ruler (5:1-2), David and his line. Chronicles does not hide the shame in this family: Er's evil, Judah's sons by his daughter-in-law Tamar (Genesis 38), and Achar (verse 7).
• 2:7 Achar is Achan the son of Carmi (Joshua 7:1, 18). Here his name is spelled Achar, which makes a wordplay with what follows: Achar, "the troubler (okher) of Israel." It echoes Joshua's words, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day" (Joshua 7:25), and the Valley of Achor, "trouble," where he was buried (Joshua 7:26). Joshua 7:1 names Carmi's father Zabdi, perhaps the Zimri of verse 6.
• 2:13 Some names in this chapter are spelled differently than in the earlier books: Dara (1 Kings 4:31 Darda), Salma (Ruth 4:20-21 Salmon, spelled Salmah in the Hebrew of 4:20), Shimea (1 Samuel 16:9 Shammah), Abigail (2 Samuel 17:25 Abigal), and Jether (2 Samuel 17:25 Ithra, called there "the Israelite" rather than "the Ishmaelite"). Chelubai (verse 9) is usually taken as another form of the name Caleb (verse 18). The TRB follows the Hebrew of each verse. Jesse himself is spelled Ishai in this verse, a variant of the same name.
• 2:15 First Samuel says that Jesse "had eight sons" (1 Samuel 17:12), and that seven passed before Samuel before David was called (16:10-11). Chronicles names seven, with David the seventh. Many think one son died without children and so is not counted here; the Syriac translation adds an Elihu, and 27:18 mentions an Elihu "of the brothers of David." The text does not explain.
• 2:24 In these lists "father of" a town (Tekoa, Ziph, Hebron, Beth-zur, Bethlehem, Kiriath-jearim) usually means its founder or the head of the clan that settled it. The opening of this verse is hard in Hebrew; the ancient Greek translation reads "Caleb went in to Ephrathah," and many think the Hebrew text has suffered in copying. The TRB follows the Hebrew.
• 2:55 The Kenites were the clan of Moses' father-in-law, who went up "with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah" (Judges 1:16); Saul spared them for their kindness to Israel (1 Samuel 15:6). From Rechab came the Rechabites: Jehonadab the son of Rechab rode with Jehu (2 Kings 10:15), and Jeremiah later held up his descendants as an example of faithfulness to their father's command (Jeremiah 35). Here these Kenite families, some of them scribes, are counted with Judah.

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