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¹⁸ 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.
¹⁹ Then Azubah died, and Caleb took for himself Ephrath as a wife, and she bore him Hur.
²⁰ Hur became the father of Uri,
and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
²¹ 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.
²² Segub became the father of Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
²³ But Geshur and Aram took ^[a]Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
²⁴ After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
²⁵ And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
²⁶ Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
²⁷ The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
²⁸ The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada.
And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur.
²⁹ The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
³⁰ The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim, and Seled died without sons.
³¹ The ^[b]son of Appaim was Ishi.
And the ^[c]son of Ishi was Sheshan.
And the ^[d]son of Sheshan was Ahlai.
³² The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether and Jonathan, and Jether died without sons.
³³ The sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza.
These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
³⁴ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha.
³⁵ Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as a wife, and she bore him Attai.
³⁶ Attai became the father of Nathan,
and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
³⁷ and Zabad became the father of Ephlal,
and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
³⁸ and Obed became the father of Jehu,
and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
³⁹ and Azariah became the father of Helez,
and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
⁴⁰ and Eleasah became the father of Sismai,
and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
⁴¹ and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah,
and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
⁴² Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and ^[e]his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
⁴³ The sons of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.
⁴⁴ Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam;
and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
⁴⁵ The son of Shammai was Maon,
and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
⁴⁶ Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez;
and Haran became the father of Gazez.
⁴⁷ The sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
⁴⁸ Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
⁴⁹ 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.
⁵⁰ These were the sons of Caleb.
The ^[f]sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, were Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
⁵¹ Salma the father of Bethlehem and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
⁵² Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons:
Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,
⁵³ and the families of Kiriath-jearim:
the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
⁵⁴ The sons of Salma were Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
⁵⁵ 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.

the firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
the second was Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess;
² the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;
³ the fifth was Shephatiah, by Abital;
the sixth was Ithream, by his wife Eglah.
⁴ Six were born to him in Hebron, and ^(B)there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.
^5 (C)These were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and ^(D)Solomon, four, by ^(E)Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;
⁶ and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
⁷ Nogah, Nepheg, and Japhia,
⁸ Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
⁹ All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and ^(F)Tamar was their sister.
¹⁰ Now Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
¹¹ Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
¹² Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
¹³ Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
¹⁴ Amon his son, Josiah his son.
¹⁵ The sons of Josiah were Johanan the firstborn, and the second was Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
¹⁶ The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
¹⁷ The sons of Jeconiah, the prisoner, were Shealtiel his son,
¹⁸ and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
¹⁹ The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei.
And the ^[g]sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister;
²⁰ and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five.
²¹ The ^[h]sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
²² The sons of Shecaniah were Shemaiah,
and the sons of Shemaiah:
Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
²³ The ^[i]sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
²⁴ The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

² Reaiah the son of Shobal ^[j]became the father of Jahath,
and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.
³ These were the ^[k]sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
⁴ Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

4 ^(A)Answer me when ^(B)I call, O God ^[b]of my righteousness!
You have ^[c](C)relieved me in my distress;
Be ^(D)gracious to me and ^(E)hear my prayer.