^22:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. ^22:2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left. ^22:3Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him, ^22:4Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people; ^22:5And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord; ^22:6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house. ^22:7They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith. ^22:8Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan; ^22:9Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord. ^22:10Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king. ^22:11And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief; ^22:12And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, ^22:13Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it. ^22:14So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her. ^22:15And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me, ^22:16These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book; ^22:17Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out. ^22:18But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears, ^22:19Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord. ^22:20For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

^23:1Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem. ^23:2And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord. ^23:3And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement. ^23:4Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el. ^23:5And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven. ^23:6And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest. ^23:7And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah. ^23:8And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town. ^23:9Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers. ^23:10And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech. ^23:11And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire. ^23:12And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron. ^23:13And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean. ^23:14The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead. ^23:15And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned. ^23:16Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said: ^23:17What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el. ^23:18So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ^23:19Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el. ^23:20And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem. ^23:21And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law. ^23:22Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah; ^23:23In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. ^23:24And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord. ^23:25Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him. ^23:26But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath. ^23:27And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there. ^23:28Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^23:29In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him. ^23:30And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father. ^23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^23:32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done. ^23:33And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ^23:34Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death. ^23:35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh. ^23:36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ^23:37He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

^24:1In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him. ^24:2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets. ^24:3Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did; ^24:4And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it. ^24:5Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^24:6So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. ^24:7And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates. ^24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. ^24:9He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done. ^24:10At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side. ^24:11And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town; ^24:12Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him. ^24:13And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said. ^24:14And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away. ^24:15He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon. ^24:16And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon. ^24:17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah. ^24:18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^24:19He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. ^24:20And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

^25:1Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. ^25:2And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ^25:3Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. ^25:4So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah. ^25:5But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction. ^25:6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged. ^25:7And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon. ^25:8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem; ^25:9And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire; ^25:10And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain. ^25:11And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners; ^25:12But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields. ^25:13And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. ^25:14And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. ^25:15And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. ^25:16The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ^25:17One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same. ^25:18And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers; ^25:19And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town. ^25:20These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ^25:21And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land. ^25:22As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them. ^25:23Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men. ^25:24Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well. ^25:25But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah. ^25:26Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans. ^25:27And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison; ^25:28And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ^25:29And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. ^25:30And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

1 Chronicles

^1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh; ^1:2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, ^1:3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; ^1:4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ^1:5The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ^1:6And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah. ^1:7And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim. ^1:8The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan. ^1:9And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ^1:10And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth. ^1:11And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim ^1:12And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines). ^1:13And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth, ^1:14And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite, ^1:15And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, ^1:16And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. ^1:17The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech. ^1:18And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. ^1:19And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan. ^1:20And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah ^1:21And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah ^1:22And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba ^1:23And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ^1:24Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, ^1:25Eber, Peleg, Reu, ^1:26Serug, Nahor, Terah, ^1:27Abram (that is Abraham). ^1:28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. ^1:29These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam, ^1:30Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema, ^1:31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. ^1:32And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. ^1:33And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ^1:34And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. ^1:35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah. ^1:36The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek. ^1:37The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. ^1:38And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. ^1:39And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. ^1:40The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. ^1:41The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. ^1:42The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ^1:43Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah. ^1:44At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. ^1:45At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, became king in his place. ^1:46And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith. ^1:47And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place. ^1:48And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river became king in his place, ^1:49And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place. ^1:50And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. ^1:51And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth, ^1:52The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon, ^1:53The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar, ^1:54The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

^2:1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun; ^2:2Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ^2:3The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death. ^2:4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five. ^2:5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ^2:6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them. ^2:7And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing. ^2:8And the son of Ethan: Azariah. ^2:9And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai. ^2:10And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah; ^2:11And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz, ^2:12And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse, ^2:13And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third, ^2:14Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth, ^2:15Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh; ^2:16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel. ^2:17And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. ^2:18And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon. ^2:19And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur. ^2:20And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel. ^2:21And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him. ^2:22And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead. ^2:23And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. ^2:24And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa. ^2:25And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah. ^2:26And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam. ^2:27And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker. ^2:28And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ^2:29And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him. ^2:30And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons. ^2:31And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. ^2:32And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons. ^2:33And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. ^2:34Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha. ^2:35And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him. ^2:36And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad, ^2:37And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed, ^2:38And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah, ^2:39And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah, ^2:40And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum, ^2:41And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama. ^2:42And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron. ^2:43And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. ^2:44And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai. ^2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. ^2:46And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez. ^2:47And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. ^2:48Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah, ^2:49And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb. ^2:50The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, ^2:51Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader. ^2:52And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites. ^2:53And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. ^2:54The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. ^2:55And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

^3:1Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman; ^3:2The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith; ^3:3The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife. ^3:4He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years. ^3:5And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel; ^3:6And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet ^3:7And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia ^3:8And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine. ^3:9All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister. ^3:10And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, ^3:11Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, ^3:12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, ^3:13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, ^3:14Amon his son, Josiah his son. ^3:15And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. ^3:16And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. ^3:17And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son, ^3:18And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah. ^3:19And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; ^3:20And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. ^3:21And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. ^3:22And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat, six. ^3:23And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three. ^3:24And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven.

^4:1The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal. ^4:2And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. ^4:3And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi; ^4:4And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem. ^4:5And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ^4:6And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. ^4:7And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan. ^4:8And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. ^4:9And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow. ^4:10And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire. ^4:11And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ^4:12And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. ^4:13And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath. ^4:14And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen. ^4:15And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz. ^4:16And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel. ^4:17And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. ^4:18And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. ^4:19And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. ^4:20And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ... ^4:21The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea; ^4:22And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old. ^4:23These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work. ^4:24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; ^4:25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ^4:26And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. ^4:27And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah. ^4:28And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual, ^4:29And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, ^4:30And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, ^4:31And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king. ^4:32And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns; ^4:33And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations. ^4:34And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah, ^4:35And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, ^4:36And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah, ^4:37And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; ^4:38These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number. ^4:39And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks. ^4:40And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham. ^4:41And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks. ^4:42And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head. ^4:43And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

^5:1And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest. ^5:2Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:) ^5:3The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. ^5:4The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ^5:5Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ^5:6Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites. ^5:7And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, ^5:8And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon; ^5:9And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead. ^5:10And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagarites, and overcame them; and they put up their tents through all the land east of Gilead. ^5:11And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: ^5:12Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai and Shaphat in Bashan; ^5:13And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them. ^5:14These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; ^5:15Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, head of their families. ^5:16And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits. ^5:17All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel. ^5:18There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms. ^5:19And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab. ^5:20And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him. ^5:21And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men. ^5:22And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners. ^5:23And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs. ^5:24And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families. ^5:25And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them. ^5:26And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

^6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ^6:2And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ^6:3And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ^6:4Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua; ^6:5And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi, ^6:6And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth; ^6:7Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ^6:8And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz, ^6:9And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan, ^6:10And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem:) ^6:11And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ^6:12And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum, ^6:13And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah, ^6:14And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak; ^6:15And Jehozadak went as a prisoner when the Lord took away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ^6:16The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ^6:17And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ^6:18And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ^6:19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers. ^6:20Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ^6:21Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. ^6:22The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ^6:23Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, ^6:24Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ^6:25And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. ^6:26Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ^6:27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son. ^6:28And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah. ^6:29The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ^6:30Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. ^6:31And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest. ^6:32They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order. ^6:33And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ^6:34The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, ^6:35The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, ^6:36The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, ^6:37The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, ^6:38The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. ^6:39And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ^6:40The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ^6:41The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ^6:42The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ^6:43The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. ^6:44And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ^6:45The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ^6:46The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ^6:47The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. ^6:48And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God. ^6:49But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God. ^6:50And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ^6:51Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ^6:52Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ^6:53Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. ^6:54Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ^6:55To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ^6:56But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ^6:57And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ^6:58And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ^6:59And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ^6:60And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns. ^6:61And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. ^6:62And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns. ^6:63And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ^6:64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts. ^6:65And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given. ^6:66And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. ^6:67And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, ^6:68And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, ^6:69And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; ^6:70And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. ^6:71To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts; ^6:72And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts, ^6:73And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts; ^6:74And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts, ^6:75And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts; ^6:76And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts. ^6:77To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts; ^6:78And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, ^6:79And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; ^6:80And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, ^6:81And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

^7:1And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four. ^7:2And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred. ^7:3And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs. ^7:4And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons. ^7:5And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand. ^7:6The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three. ^7:7And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families. ^7:8And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. ^7:9And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred. ^7:10And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar. ^7:11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war. ^7:12And Shuppim and Huppim. The sons of Dan, Hushim his son, one. ^7:13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. ^7:14The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead; ^7:15(And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters. ^7:16And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. ^7:17And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh. ^7:18And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah. ^7:19And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam. ^7:20And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, ^7:21And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle. ^7:22And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort. ^7:23After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family. ^7:24And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah. ^7:25And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan; ^7:26Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ^7:27Nun his son, Joshua his son. ^7:28Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns; ^7:29And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living. ^7:30The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister. ^7:31And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. ^7:32And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. ^7:33And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. ^7:34And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram. ^7:35And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. ^7:36The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah, ^7:37Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera. ^7:38And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. ^7:39And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia. ^7:40All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

^8:1And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, ^8:2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. ^8:3And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud, ^8:4And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah ^8:5And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram. ^8:6And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth ^8:7And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the father of Uzza and Ahihud. ^8:8And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives; ^8:9And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam. ^8:10And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of families. ^8:11And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. ^8:12And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed (he was the builder of Ono and Lod and their daughter-towns); ^8:13And Beriah and Shema, who were heads of the families of those who were living in Aijalon, who put to flight the people living in Gath; ^8:14And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth. ^8:15And Zebadiah and Arad and Eder ^8:16And Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah; ^8:17And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber ^8:18And Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal; ^8:19And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi ^8:20And Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel ^8:21And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei; ^8:22And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel ^8:23And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan ^8:24And Hananiah and Elam and Anathothijah ^8:25And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak; ^8:26And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah ^8:27And Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of Jeremoth. ^8:28These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem. ^8:29And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah; ^8:30And his oldest son Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab ^8:31And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth. ^8:32And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers. ^8:33And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal. ^8:34And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah. ^8:35And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz. ^8:36And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza; ^8:37And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son; ^8:38And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. ^8:39And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. ^8:40And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.

^9:1So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin. ^9:2Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. ^9:3And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh; ^9:4Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah. ^9:5And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons. ^9:6And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety. ^9:7And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah, ^9:8And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; ^9:9And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers. ^9:10And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin ^9:11And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God; ^9:12And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; ^9:13And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God. ^9:14And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ^9:15And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; ^9:16And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites. ^9:17And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief. ^9:18Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi. ^9:19And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway. ^9:20In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him! ^9:21Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting. ^9:22There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions. ^9:23So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers. ^9:24There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south. ^9:25And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time. ^9:26For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God. ^9:27Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning. ^9:28Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again. ^9:29And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices. ^9:30And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices. ^9:31And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes. ^9:32And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath. ^9:33And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night. ^9:34These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem. ^9:35And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah; ^9:36And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab ^9:37And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth ^9:38Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers. ^9:39And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal. ^9:40And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah. ^9:41And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tahrea and Ahaz. ^9:42And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza. ^9:43And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. ^9:44And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest son, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

^10:1Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa. ^10:2And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. ^10:3And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers. ^10:4Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself. ^10:5And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death. ^10:6So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his family came to an end together. ^10:7And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves. ^10:8Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa. ^10:9And they took everything off him, and took his head and his war-dress, and sent word into the land of the Philistines round about to give the news to their gods and to the people. ^10:10And they put his war-dress in the house of their gods, and put up his head in the house of Dagon. ^10:11And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul, ^10:12All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days. ^10:13So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit, ^10:14And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.

^11:1Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh. ^11:2In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler. ^11:3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel. ^11:4Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the people of the land, were there. ^11:5And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David. ^11:6And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief. ^11:7And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David. ^11:8And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order. ^11:9And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him. ^11:10Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel. ^11:11This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear. ^11:12And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters. ^11:13He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines. ^11:14And he took up his position in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack, and overcame the Philistines; and the Lord gave a great salvation. ^11:15And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim. ^11:16At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem. ^11:17And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town! ^11:18So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord, ^11:19Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war. ^11:20And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three. ^11:21Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three. ^11:22Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow. ^11:23And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear. ^11:24These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war. ^11:25He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants. ^11:26And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, ^11:27Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite, ^11:28Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, ^11:29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, ^11:30Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the Netophathite, ^11:31Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, ^11:32Hurai of Nahale-gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, ^11:33Azmaveth of Bahurim, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, ^11:34The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite, ^11:35Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal, the son of Ur, ^11:36Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, ^11:37Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai, ^11:38Joel, the brother of Nathan, Mibhar, the son of Hagri, ^11:39Zelek the Ammonite, and Naharai the Berothite, the servant who had the care of the arms of Joab, the son of Zeruiah; ^11:40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ^11:41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad, the son of Ahlai, ^11:42Adina, the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him; ^11:43Hanan, the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, ^11:44Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, ^11:45Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, ^11:46Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, ^11:47Eliel and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

^12:1Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war. ^12:2They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin. ^12:3Ahiezer was their chief, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite; ^12:4And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite; ^12:5Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite; ^12:6Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites; ^12:7And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. ^12:8And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains; ^12:9Ezer their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, ^12:10Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, ^12:11Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, ^12:12Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, ^12:13Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. ^12:14These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of them was captain over a hundred men, and the greatest over a thousand. ^12:15It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west. ^12:16And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place. ^12:17And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment. ^12:18Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, David, we are on your side, O son of Jesse: may peace be with you and peace be with your helpers; for God is your helper. Then David took them into his army and made them captains of the band. ^12:19And some of the men of Manasseh came over to David, when he went with the Philistines to the war against Saul, but he gave them no help: for the lords of the Philistines, after discussion, sent him away, saying, He will go back to his master Saul, at the price of our lives. ^12:20Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to him, of the men of Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands from the armies of Manasseh. ^12:21And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army. ^12:22And from day to day more supporters came to David, till he had a great army like the army of God. ^12:23These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said. ^12:24There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war; ^12:25Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war; ^12:26Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred. ^12:27And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men; ^12:28And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people. ^12:29And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul. ^12:30And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families. ^12:31And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king. ^12:32And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders. ^12:33Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men. ^12:34And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen. ^12:35And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight. ^12:36And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight. ^12:37From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war. ^12:38All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king. ^12:39For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them. ^12:40And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

^13:1Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief. ^13:2And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us; ^13:3And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions. ^13:4And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them. ^13:5So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. ^13:6And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones. ^13:7And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart. ^13:8Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns. ^13:9And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping. ^13:10And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God. ^13:11And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day. ^13:12And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me? ^13:13So David did not let the ark come back to him to the town of David, but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ^13:14And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.

^14:1And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house. ^14:2And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel. ^14:3And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters. ^14:4These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon ^14:5And Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet ^14:6And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia ^14:7And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet. ^14:8And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them. ^14:9Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. ^14:10And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands. ^14:11So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame them there, and David said, God has let the forces fighting against me be broken by my hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing water; so they gave that place the name of Baal-perazim. ^14:12And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire. ^14:13Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley. ^14:14And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees. ^14:15And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go out to the fight, for God has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines. ^14:16And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer. ^14:17And David's name was honoured in all lands; and the Lord put the fear of him on all nations.

^15:1And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it. ^15:2Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever. ^15:3And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it. ^15:4And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites; ^15:5Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty; ^15:6Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty; ^15:7Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty; ^15:8Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred; ^15:9Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty; ^15:10Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve. ^15:11And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab, ^15:12And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it. ^15:13For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way. ^15:14So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. ^15:15And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses. ^15:16And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy. ^15:17So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan, the son of Kushaiah, were put in position by the Levites; ^15:18And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers. ^15:19So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly; ^15:20And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth. ^15:21And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song. ^15:22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was master of the music: he gave directions about the song, because he was expert. ^15:23And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark. ^15:24And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, made music on the horns before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark. ^15:25So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the agreement of the Lord out of the house of Obed-edom. ^15:26And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep. ^15:27And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as were all the Levites who took up the ark, and those who made melody, and Chenaniah the master of those who made melody; and David had on a linen ephod; ^15:28So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly. ^15:29And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and playing; and to her mind he seemed foolish.