## Generations of David 

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These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 

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Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 

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The sons of Judah _were_ Er, Onan, and Shelah; _these_ three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so He put him to death. 

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Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. 

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The sons of Perez _were_ Hezron and Hamul. 

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The sons of Zerah _were_ Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. 

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The son of Carmi _was_ Achar, the troubler of Israel, who violated what was devoted to destruction. 

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The son of Ethan _was_ Azariah. 

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Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him _were_ Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. 

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Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah; 

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Nahshon became the father of Salma, Salma became the father of Boaz, 

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Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; 

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and Jesse became the father of Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, 

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Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 

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Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; 

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and their sisters _were_ Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah _were_ Abshai, Joab, and Asahel. 

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Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 

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Now Caleb the son of Hezron became a father by Azubah _his_ wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 

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Then Azubah died, and Caleb took for himself Ephrath _as a wife_, and she bore him Hur. 

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Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. 

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Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took _as a wife_ when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. 

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Segub became the father of Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 

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But Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, _even_ sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. 

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After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. 

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And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron _were_ Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem, _and_ Ahijah. 

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Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 

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The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. 

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The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai _were_ Nadab and Abishur. 

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The name of Abishur's wife _was_ Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. 

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The sons of Nadab _were_ Seled and Appaim, and Seled died without sons. 

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The son of Appaim _was_ Ishi. And the son of Ishi _was_ Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan _was_ Ahlai. 

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The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai _were_ Jether and Jonathan, and Jether died without sons. 

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The sons of Jonathan _were_ Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. 

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Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. 

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Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as a wife, and she bore him Attai. 

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Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, 

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and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, 

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and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, 

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and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, 

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and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, 

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and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. 

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Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, _were_ Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron. 

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The sons of Hebron _were_ Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. 

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Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. 

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The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon _was_ the father of Bethzur. 

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Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. 

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The sons of Jahdai _were_ Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. 

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Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 

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She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb _was_ Achsah. 

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These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, _were_ Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim, 

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Salma the father of Bethlehem _and_ Hareph the father of Beth-gader. 

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Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites, 

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and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. 

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The sons of Salma _were_ Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. 

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The families of scribes who lived at Jabez _were_ the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, _and_ the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.