1 Chronicles 8 — Legacy Standard Bible

Generations of Saul

8And ^aBenjamin ¹became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, ^bAharah the third,

²Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. ³Bela had sons: ¹Addar, Gera, Abihud, ⁴Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ⁵Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. ⁶These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away into exile to Manahath, ⁷namely, Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera—he took them away into exile; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud. ⁸Shaharaim became the father of children in the ¹country of Moab after he had ²sent away Hushim and Baara his wives. ⁹By Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, ¹⁰Jeuz, Sachia, Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households. ¹¹By Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. ¹²The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; ¹³and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who made the inhabitants of Gath flee; ¹⁴and ¹Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth. ¹⁵Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, ¹⁶Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were the sons of Beriah. ¹⁷Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, ¹⁸Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal. ¹⁹Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, ²⁰Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, ²¹Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of ¹Shimei. ²²Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ²³Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, ²⁴Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, ²⁵Iphdeiah and Penuel were the sons of Shashak. ²⁶Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, ²⁷Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham. ²⁸These were heads of the fathers’ households according to their generations, the heads ¹who lived in Jerusalem. ²⁹^aNow in Gibeon, Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived, and his wife’s name was Maacah; ³⁰and his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, ³¹Gedor, Ahio, and ¹Zecher. ³²Mikloth became the father of ¹Shimeah. And they also lived with their ²relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other ³relatives. ³³^aNer became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, ¹Abinadab, and ²Eshbaal. ³⁴The son of Jonathan was ¹Merib-baal, and Merib-baal became the father of Micah. ³⁵The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, ¹Tarea, and Ahaz. ³⁶Ahaz became the father of ¹Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza. ³⁷Moza became the father of Binea; ¹Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. ³⁸Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. ³⁹The sons of Eshek his brother were Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. ⁴⁰The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, 150 of them. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.