1: Israel's (that is, Jacob's) sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
2: Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3: Judah had Er, Onan, and Shelah; their mother was Bathshua the Canaanite. Er, Judah's firstborn, was so bad before GOD that GOD killed him.
4: Judah also had Perez and Zerah by his daughter-in-law Tamar--a total of five sons.
5: Perez had Hezron and Hamul;
6: Zerah had Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda--five sons.
7: Carmi had Achar, who brought doom on Israel when he violated a holy ban.
8: Ethan's son was Azariah.
9: And Hezron had Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
10: Ram had Amminadab and Amminadab had Nahshon, a prominent leader in the Judah family.
11: Nahshon had Salmon and Salmon had Boaz.
12: Boaz had Obed and Obed had Jesse.
13: Jesse's firstborn was Eliab, followed by Abinadab, Shimea,
14: Nethanel, Raddai,
15: Ozem, and finally David; David was the seventh.
16: Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah gave birth to three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel;
17: Abigail was the mother of Amasa (the father was Jether the Ishmaelite).
18: Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and also by Jerioth. Azubah's sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
19: After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who gave birth to Hur.
20: Hur had Uri and Uri had Bezalel.
21: Some time later Hezron married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead; he was sixty years old when he married her; she gave birth to Segub.
22: Then Segub had Jair who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23: Geshur and Aram captured the nomadic villages of Jair and Kenath and their satellite settlements--sixty towns. These all belonged to Makir the father of Gilead.
24: After the death of Hezron, Caleb married Ephrathah the wife of his father Hezron; she then gave birth to Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
25: The sons of Jerahmeel, Hezron's firstborn: Ram his firstborn, followed by Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
26: Jerahmeel had another wife whose name was Atarah; she gave birth to Onam.
27: The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel's firstborn: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
28: The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
29: Abishur's wife was Abihail; she gave birth to Ahban and Molid.
30: Nadab had Seled and Appaim. Seled died leaving no sons.
31: Appaim had Ishi; Ishi had Sheshan; and Sheshan had Ahlai.
32: Jada, Shammai's brother, had Jether and Jonathan. Jether died leaving no sons.
33: Jonathan had Peleth and Zaza. This is the family tree of the sons of Jerahmeel. [JC]
34: Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. But Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, Jarha.
35: Sheshan married his daughter to Jarha and she gave birth to Attai.
36: Attai had Nathan, Nathan had Zabad,
37: Zabad had Ephlal, Ephlal had Obed,
38: Obed had Jehu, Jehu had Azariah,
39: Azariah had Helez, Helez had Eleasah,
40: Eleasah had Sismai, Sismai had Shallum,
41: Shallum had Jekamiah, and Jekamiah had Elishama. [JC]
42: Jerahmeel's brother Caleb had a son, his firstborn, named Mesha; Mesha had Ziph; Ziph's son was Mareshah the father of Hebron.
43: The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
44: Shema had Raham the father of Jorkeam; Rekem had Shammai.
45: Shammai's son was Maon and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
46: Caleb's concubine Ephah gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez; Haran had Gazez.
47: The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
48: Another concubine of Caleb, Maacah, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah.
49: She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Acsah.
50: These made up the Caleb branch of the family tree. The sons of Hur, Ephrathah's firstborn: Shobal who had Kiriath Jearim,
51: Salma who had Bethlehem, and Hareph father of Beth Gader.
52: The family of Shobal, father of Kiriath Jearim: Haroeh, half of the population of Manahath,
53: the families of Kiriath Jearim, the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites also came from this line.
54: The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half of the Manahathites, the Zorites,
55: and the families of Sopherim who lived at Jabez--the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They made up the Kenites who came from Hammath the father of the house of Recab.