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And God granted him what he requested. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Now the sons of Kenaz <i>were</i> Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel <i>were</i> Hathath and Meonothai. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Meonothai became the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh <i>were</i> Iru, Elah and Naam; and the son of Elah <i>was</i> Kenaz. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>The sons of Jehallelel <i>were</i> Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The sons of Ezrah <i>were</i> Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. (And these are the sons of Bithia the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took) and she conceived <i>and bore</i> Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>His Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, <i>were</i> the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The sons of Shimon <i>were</i> Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi <i>were</i> Zoheth and Ben-zoheth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>The sons of Shelah the son of Judah <i>were</i> Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And the records are ancient. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Descendants of Simeon</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>The sons of Simeon <i>were</i> Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>The sons of Mishma <i>were</i> Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Now Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, nor did all their family multiply like the sons of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>They lived at Beersheba, Moladah and Hazar-shual, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>at Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These <i>were</i> their cities until the reign of David. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Their villages <i>were</i> Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>and all their villages that <i>were</i> around the same cities as far as Baal. These <i>were</i> their settlements, and they have their genealogy. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah the son of Amaziah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>and Joel and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>and Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>these mentioned by name <i>were</i> leaders in their families; and their fathers houses increased greatly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>They found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad and quiet and peaceful; for those who lived there formerly <i>were</i> Hamites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>These, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>From them, from the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their leaders. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>They destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_chronicles/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_chronicles/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_chronicles/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jabez was more honoured than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with pain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_chronicles/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_chronicles/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_chronicles/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_chronicles/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, 'Because I have brought forth with grief.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_ark_among_the_flags.htm">The Ark among the Flags</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_ark_among_the_flags.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm">Chronicles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_chronicles/4-9.htm">1 Chronicles 4:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_chronicles/4-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Chronicles 4:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 4:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_chronicles/4-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Chronicles 4:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 4:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_chronicles/4-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>