34-38. As their families and clans became larger, the people of Simeon had the following leaders: Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, Joel, Jehu, Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, and Ziza.
39. When the people needed more pasture land for their flocks and herds, they looked as far as the eastern side of the valley where the town of Gerar is,
40. and they found a lot of good pasture land that was quiet and undisturbed. This had once belonged to the Hamites,
41. but when Hezekiah was king of Judah, the descendants of Simeon attacked and forced the Hamites and Meunites off the land, then settled there.
42. Some time later, five hundred men from the Simeon tribe went into Edom under the command of Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel the sons of Ishi.
43. They killed the last of the Amalekites and lived there from then on.