38. These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
39. And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40. And they found rich pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
41. And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and dwelt in their room: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42. And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43. And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and have dwelt there to this day.