Join us as we uncover the depth and breadth of Israel’s tribal lineage, focusing on the tribe of Judah, the lineage of David, and the notable figures within. The reading highlights individuals like Jabez whose prayer was both powerful and unique. Through these ancient records, we gain insight into God’s faithful dealings with His people.
Welcome to Add Bible, an audio daily devotion from the Ezra Project. We join Allen J. Huth as he shares Bible passages and comments from over 30 years of his personal Bible reading journals.
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Today we are in 1 Chronicles, and we’re going to cover three chapters, chapters 2, 3, 4. These are going to be some long readings, but a lot of genealogies. So let’s get right into Faith Comes By Hearing’s recording of 1 Chronicles 2, 3, and 4.
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1 Chronicles 2 These are the sons of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah, Ur, Onan, and Shelah. These three Bathsheba the Canaanite bore to him. Now Ur, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Periz and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all, the sons of Periz, Hezron, and Hamel, the sons of Zerah, Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Chalcol, and Dera, five in all. the son of Carmi, Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing, and Ethan’s son was Azariah. The sons of Hezron that were born to him, Jeromiel, Ram, and Kelubai. Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nashon, prince of the sons of Judah. Nashon fathered Salmon. Salmon fathered Boaz. Boaz fathered Obed. Obed fathered Jesse. Jesse fathered Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimeah the third, Nathanael the fourth, Radai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah, Abishai, Joab, and Asahel. Three. Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. Caleb, the son of Hezron, fathered children by his wife Azuba and by Jereoth. And these were her sons, Jeshur, Shobab, and Ardon. When Azuba died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.
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Afterward, Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. And Segub fathered Jeir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. But Geshur and Aram took from them Havoth-Jeir, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns.
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All these were descendants of Makar, the father of Gilead. After the death of Hezron, Caleb went into Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron, his father, and she bore him Asher, the father of Tekoa. The sons of Jeromiel, the firstborn of Hezron, Ram, his firstborn, Buna, Oran, Ozem, and Ahijah. Jeromiel also had another wife, whose name was Adara. She was the mother of Onam. The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jeromiel, Maaz, Jaman, and Eker. The sons of Onam, Shammai, and Jadah. The sons of Shammai, Nadab, and Abishur. The name of Abishur’s wife was Abahel. and she bore him Aben and Molid. The sons of Nadab, Selad and Epaim. And Selad died childless. The son of Epaim, Ishai. The son of Ishai, Shishan. The son of Shishan, Alai. The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother, Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died childless. The sons of Jonathan, Peleth and Zazah. These were the descendants of Jeromiel. Now Shishan had no sons, only daughters. But Shishan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. So Shishan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha, his slave, and she bore him Attai. Atai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. Zabad fathered Ephel, and Ephel fathered Obed. Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasa. Eleasa fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shalom. Shalom fathered Jechamiah, and Jechamiah fathered Elishamah. the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jeremiel, Meresha his firstborn, who fathered Ziph, the son of Meresha, Hebron, the sons of Hebron, Korah, Tapua, Recham, and Shema. Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Recham fathered Shammai. the son of Shammai, Mahon, and Mahon fathered Bethzer. Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Mosah, and Gazaz, and Haran fathered Gazaz. The sons of Jaddai, Regam, Jotham, Geshen, Pelit, Ephah, and Shaif. Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Terhaneh. She also bore Saaph, the father of Madmanah. Sheba, the father of Macbina, and the father of Gibeah. And the daughter of Caleb was Aksah. These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah. Shobal, the father of Kiriath-Jerim, Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Harith, the father of Beth-gater. Shobal, the father of Kiriath-Jerim, had other sons. Heroah, half of the Minuhoth, and the clans of Kiriath-Jerim, the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaelites. the sons of Salma, Bethlehem, the Netophethites, Atrothbeth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez, the Tyrethites, the Shimeathites, and the Sukethites. These are the Kenites who came from Hamath, the father of the house of Rechab. 1 Chronicles 3 These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron. The firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite. The second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite. The third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. The fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Hagath. The fifth, Shephetiah, by Abital. The sixth, Ithrium, by his wife Eglah. Six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. These were born to him in Jerusalem. Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. Four by Bathsheba, the daughter of Amiel. Then Ibhar, Elishema, Eliphelet, Noga, Nepheg, Jephiah, Elishema, Eliadah, Eliphelet. Nine. All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister. The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah his son. Jotham his son, Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, Ammon his son, Josiah his son, The sons of Josiah, Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shalom. The descendants of Jehoiakim, Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. And the sons of Jeconiah the captive, Shealtiel his son, Malchiram, Padaiah, Shenazer, Jecomiah, Hoshamah, and Nedabiah. And the sons of Padaiah, Zerubbabel, and Shimei. and the sons of Zerubbabel, Meshulam, and Hananiah, and Shalometh was their sister, and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushabhesed.
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The sons of Hananiah, Pelatiah, and Jeshiah, his son Rephiah, his son Arnon, his son Obadiah, his son Shekiniah, the son of Shechaniah, Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah, Hattish, Igel, Beriah, Nehariah, and Shaphat. 6. The sons of Nehariah, Elioenai, Hiskiah, and Azrakum. Three. The sons of Elioenai, Hodaviah, Eliashib, Peleah, Aqab, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani. Seven. First Chronicles. Four. The sons of Judah, Piriz, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobel. Riehah, the son of Shobel, fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. These were the sons of Etam. Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazalel-Ponai. And Penuel fathered Geder, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. Asher, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Hela and Naorah. Naorah bore him a Hazem, Hefer, Temani, and Hayahashterai. These were the sons of Naorah, the sons of Hela, Zeroth, Izhar, and Ethnon. Kaz fathered Anab, Zobeba, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Haram.
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Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him in pain.
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Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, And God granted what he asked.
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Caleb, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Meher, who fathered Eshton. Eshton fathered Bethrephah, Puseah, and Tahinah, the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah, the sons of Kenaz, Othniel, and Saraiah, and the sons of Othniel, Hathath, and Meonathai. Mionothi fathered Ophrah, and Saraiah fathered Joab, the father of Geharshim, so called because they were craftsmen, the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. Iru, Elah, and Nahum. And the son of Elah, Kenaz. The sons of Jehalelol, Ziph, Zipha, Tyria, and Aserel. The sons of Ezra, Jether, Merid, Ephur, and Jalen. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Merod married, and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishba, the father of Eshtimoah. And his Judahite wife bore Jered, the father of Gidor, Heber, the father of Soko, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zenoah. The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Nahum, were the fathers of Keilah, the Garmite, and Eshtimoah, the Maacathite. The sons of Shimon, Amnon, Rinna, Ben-Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi, Zoheth, and Ben-Zoheth. the sons of Shelah, the son of Judah, Ur, the father of Lekah, Laodah, the father of Moreshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Bethashpah, and Jochem, and the men of Kozeba, and Joash, and Seraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem.
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Now the records are ancient. These were the potters who were inhabitants of Natam and Gadira. They lived there in the king’s service.
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The sons of Simeon, Namuel, Jaman, Jerob, Zerah, Shaal. Shalem was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. the sons of Mishma, Emuel his son, Zachar his son, Shimei his son. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah. They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-Shul, Bilhah, Ezim, Tolat, Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth-Markabath, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Berai, and Shearayim. These were their cities until David reigned. And their villages were Etam, Aen, Rimen, Token, and Ashen, five cities, along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record. Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshua the son of Amaziah, Joel, Jehu the son of Joshabiah, son of Saraiah, son of Asiel, Elioenai, Jeacobah, Jeshahiah, Uzziah, Adiel, Jisimiel, Benaiah, Zizah the son of Shiphai, son of Alan, son of Judeah, son of Shemri, son of Shemaiah.
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These mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly. They journeyed to the entrance of Ghidor to the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks, where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham. These registered by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelletiah, Neariah, Rephaah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
