| 2:1 | Israel's (that is, Jacob's) sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, |
| 2:2 | Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. |
| 2:3 | Judah had Er, Onan, and Shelah; their mother was Bathshua the Canaanite. Er, Judah's firstborn, was so bad before GOD that GOD killed him. |
| 2:4 | Judah also had Perez and Zerah by his daughter-in-law Tamar--a total of five sons. |
| 2:5 | Perez had Hezron and Hamul; |
| 2:6 | Zerah had Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda--five sons. |
| 2:7 | Carmi had Achar, who brought doom on Israel when he violated a holy ban. |
| 2:8 | Ethan's son was Azariah. |
| 2:9 | And Hezron had Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. |
| 2:10 | Ram had Amminadab and Amminadab had Nahshon, a prominent leader in the Judah family. |
| 2:11 | Nahshon had Salmon and Salmon had Boaz. |
| 2:12 | Boaz had Obed and Obed had Jesse. |
| 2:13 | Jesse's firstborn was Eliab, followed by Abinadab, Shimea, |
| 2:14 | Nethanel, Raddai, |
| 2:15 | Ozem, and finally David; David was the seventh. |
| 2:16 | Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah gave birth to three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel; |
| 2:17 | Abigail was the mother of Amasa (the father was Jether the Ishmaelite). |
| 2:18 | Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and also by Jerioth. Azubah's sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. |
| 2:19 | After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who gave birth to Hur. |
| 2:20 | Hur had Uri and Uri had Bezalel. |
| 2:21 | Some time later Hezron married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead; he was sixty years old when he married her; she gave birth to Segub. |
| 2:22 | Then Segub had Jair who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. |
| 2:23 | Geshur and Aram captured the nomadic villages of Jair and Kenath and their satellite settlements--sixty towns. These all belonged to Makir the father of Gilead. |
| 2:24 | After the death of Hezron, Caleb married Ephrathah the wife of his father Hezron; she then gave birth to Ashhur the father of Tekoa. |
| 2:25 | The sons of Jerahmeel, Hezron's firstborn: Ram his firstborn, followed by Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. |
| 2:26 | Jerahmeel had another wife whose name was Atarah; she gave birth to Onam. |
| 2:27 | The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel's firstborn: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. |
| 2:28 | The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. |
| 2:29 | Abishur's wife was Abihail; she gave birth to Ahban and Molid. |
| 2:30 | Nadab had Seled and Appaim. Seled died leaving no sons. |
| 2:31 | Appaim had Ishi; Ishi had Sheshan; and Sheshan had Ahlai. |
| 2:32 | Jada, Shammai's brother, had Jether and Jonathan. Jether died leaving no sons. |
| 2:33 | Jonathan had Peleth and Zaza. This is the family tree of the sons of Jerahmeel. |
| 2:34 | Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. But Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, Jarha. |
| 2:35 | Sheshan married his daughter to Jarha and she gave birth to Attai. |
| 2:36 | Attai had Nathan, Nathan had Zabad, |
| 2:37 | Zabad had Ephlal, Ephlal had Obed, |
| 2:38 | Obed had Jehu, Jehu had Azariah, |
| 2:39 | Azariah had Helez, Helez had Eleasah, |
| 2:40 | Eleasah had Sismai, Sismai had Shallum, |
| 2:41 | Shallum had Jekamiah, and Jekamiah had Elishama. |
| 2:42 | Jerahmeel's brother Caleb had a son, his firstborn, named Mesha; Mesha had Ziph; Ziph's son was Mareshah the father of Hebron. |
| 2:43 | The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. |
| 2:44 | Shema had Raham the father of Jorkeam; Rekem had Shammai. |
| 2:45 | Shammai's son was Maon and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. |
| 2:46 | Caleb's concubine Ephah gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez; Haran had Gazez. |
| 2:47 | The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. |
| 2:48 | Another concubine of Caleb, Maacah, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. |
| 2:49 | She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Acsah. |
| 2:50 | These made up the Caleb branch of the family tree. The sons of Hur, Ephrathah's firstborn: Shobal who had Kiriath Jearim, |
| 2:51 | Salma who had Bethlehem, and Hareph father of Beth Gader. |
| 2:52 | The family of Shobal, father of Kiriath Jearim: Haroeh, half of the population of Manahath, |
| 2:53 | the families of Kiriath Jearim, the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites also came from this line. |
| 2:54 | The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half of the Manahathites, the Zorites, |
| 2:55 | and the families of Sopherim who lived at Jabez--the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They made up the Kenites who came from Hammath the father of the house of Recab. |
1 Tawarikh 2 - The Message Bible
