17. The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Jether became the father of Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
18. Mered’s Egyptian wife bore Jered, the father of Gedor, Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. These were the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.
19. The sons of his Jewish wife, the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah, were Shimon the Garmite and Ishi the Maacathite.
20. The sons of Shimon were Amnon, Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. The son of Ishi was Zoheth and the son of Zoheth….
21. The sons of Shelah, son of Judah, were: Er, the father of Lecah; Laadah, the father of Mareshah; the clans of the linen weavers’ guild in Bethashbea;
22. Jokim; the people of Cozeba; and Joash and Saraph, who held property in Moab, but returned to Bethlehem. (These are events of old.)
23. They were potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah, where they lived in the king’s service.
24. The sons of Simeon were Nemuel, Jamin, Jachin, Zerah, and Shaul,
25. whose son was Shallum, whose son was Mibsam, whose son was Mishma.
26. The sons of Mishma were his son Hammuel, whose son was Zaccur, whose son was Shimei.
27. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. His brothers, however, did not have many sons, and as a result all their clans did not equal the number of the Judahites.
28. They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29. Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
30. Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31. Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Bethbiri, and Shaaraim. Until the reign of David, these were their cities
32. and their villages. Etam, also, and Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five cities,
33. together with all their outlying villages as far as Baal. Here is where they dwelt, and so it was inscribed of them in their family records.
34. Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah, son of Amaziah,
35. Joel, Jehu, son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,