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📚The sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. 2 📚And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. 3 📚And these were of the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi; 4 📚and Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father 📖 of Bethlehem. 5 📚And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 6 And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth and Jezoar and Ethnan. 8 And Coz begot Anub and Zobebah and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.Jabez’s prayer
9 📚And Jabez was more honourable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez 📖, saying, “Because I bore him in pain”. 10 📚And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil so that it does not grieve me!” And God granted him what he requested.
4:10 At birth he gave pain to his mother, but in life he gave joy to God. He asked for four things and received them all. The things he asked evidently pleased God and they testify to the fact that he was more honorable than his brothers. We would do well to ask for the four things he asked:
1. That God would bless us indeed
2. That God would enlarge our territories of influence, our ministries and opportunities
3. That God’s hand would be with us
4. That God would keep us from evil so that it causes no pain⚜
11 And Chelub, the brother of Shuah, begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12 And Eshton begot Beth-Rapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Irnahash 📖. These are the men of Rechah.
13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel 📖: Hathath, 14 📚and Meonothai who begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab, the father of those in the valley of Harashim; and they were craftsmen. 15 📚And the sons of Caleb 📖, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the son of Elah: Kenaz. 16 And the sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asareel. 17 📚And the sons of Ezra were Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and she bore Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. 18 📚And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 19 📚And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. 20 And the sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Benzoheth. 21 📚The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who made fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 22 and Jokim, and the men of Hozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient records. 23 📚These were the potter’s, and those who lived among plants and hedges; they stayed there near the king for his work.
Simeon’s descendants
24 📚The sons of Simeon were Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah and Shaul; 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 26 And the sons of Mishma: Hamuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 27 📚And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their family increase in number like the children of Judah. 28 📚And they lived at Beersheba and Moladah and Hazarshual, 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-Birei and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32 📚And their villages were Etam and Ain, Rimmon and Tochen and Ashan, five towns, 33 📚and all their villages that were around the same towns as far as Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy. 34 And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah, 35 and Joel and Jehu, the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36 and Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and 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 their names were leaders in their families; and the house of their fathers increased greatly. 39 📚And they went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to look for pasture for their flocks. 40 📚And they found rich and good pasture, and the land was spacious and quiet and peaceable; for descendants of Ham had lived there in olden times.
41 📚And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the habitations that were found there, and utterly destroyed them, as it is to this day, and lived in their places, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 📚And some of them, some 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 struck down the rest of the Amalekites 📖 who had escaped, and they live there to this day.