1 of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,
4 These were the sons of Naarah.
7The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
8Koz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.
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14 so-called because they were artisans.
15The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.
16The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married, and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa.
18And his Judean wife bore Jered father of Gedor, Heber father of Soco, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah.
19The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
21 (the records are ancient).
23These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king in his service.
Descendants of Simeon24
25Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their family multiply like the Judeans.
28Josh 19.2They lived in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
301 Chr 12.1Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their towns until David became king.
32And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five towns,
33along with all their villages that were around these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical record.
34Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah,
35Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah son of Seraiah son of Asiel,
36Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
37Ziza son of Shiphi son of Allon son of Jedaiah son of Shimri son of Shemaiah—
38these mentioned by name were leaders in their families, and their clans increased greatly.
39They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,
40Judg 18.7–10where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.
412 Kings 18.8These, registered by name, came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked their tents and the Meunim who were found there and exterminated them to this day and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi;
431 Sam 15.8; 30.17; 2 Sam 8.12they destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
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