The Generations from Israel to David.
From Israel to Jesse
1These are the sons of Israel, that is, of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the bearer of the Messianic promise: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, the six sons of Leah, 2Dan, the older son of Rachel’s maid, Joseph and Benjamin, the two sons of Rachel, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, the remaining sons of the handmaids. 3The sons of Judah, who became the bearer of the Messianic promise, Gen. 49, 10; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua, the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord; and He slew him, Gen. 38, 7. 4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bare him Pharez and Zerah, Gen. 38, 29. 30. All the sons of Judah were five. 5The sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. 6And the sons of Zerah, also known as Ezra, 1 Kings 4, 31: Zimri (or Zabdi), and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara (or Darda), five of them in all. The entire family was known for the wisdom of its members, and for their skill in poetry and music, whence they were even called the sons of Mahol, that is, of musical lore. 7And the sons of Carmi: Achar (or Achan), the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed, Josh. 6, 18; 7, 1. 8And the sons of Ethan: Azariah. 9The sons also of Hezron that were born unto him: Jerahmeel, and Ram (or Aram), and Chelubai (or Caleb). 10And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah, Num. 1, 7; 11and Nahshon begat Salma (or Salmon), and Salma begat Boaz, 12and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse. Cp. Ruth 4, 18–22. 13And Jesse begat his first-born, Eliab; and Abinadab, the second; and Shimma (or Shammah), the third; 14Nethaneel, the fourth; Raddai, the fifth; 15Ozem, the sixth; David, the seventh, only seven sons being mentioned here instead of the eight of 1 Sam. 16, 10; 17, 12, because one of the younger sons seems to have died before reaching maturity and leaving children; 16whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah, the nephews of David: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. 17And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite, 2 Sam. 17, 25. Thus the family of David was shown to go back directly to Judah, a fact which sets forth his importance in the Messianic story.
The Genealogy of Caleb
18And Caleb, the son of Hezron, v. 9, begat children of Azubah, his wife, and of Jerioth, who seems to have been a secondary wife, whose children were reckoned as those of Azubah; her sons are these: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. 19And when Azubah, his rightful spouse, was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur. 20And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel. 21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, grandson of Joseph and chief of that city east of Jordan, with its adjacent territory, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. 22And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead, Num. 32, 41; Deut. 3, 14; Josh. 13, 30; 1 Kings 4, 13. On his father’s side Jair belonged to the tribe of Judah, but on the side of his mother he was rightly called a son of Manasseh. 23And he took Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, from the heathen inhabitants, Num. 32, 39–41, with Kenath and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead, Deut. 3, 14; Josh. 13, 30. 24And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, probably the same as was afterward called Bethlehem-ephratah, then Abiah, Hezron’s wife, bare him Ashur, the father of Tekoa, a posthumous son, chief of this little town south of Bethlehem, later the home of Amos, the prophet. 25And the sons of Jerahmeel, the first-born of Hezron, were Ram, the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah. 26Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 27And the sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. 28And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 29And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban and Molid. 30And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children. 31And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan, the name of only one daughter being mentioned, since his sons were evidently not living at his death and had no issue: Ahlai. 32And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. 33And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. This traces the genealogy in one branch of the family. 34Now Sheshan, the son of Ishi, v. 31, had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 35And Sheshan gave his daughter, very likely the Ahlai named in v. 31, to Jarha, his servant, who doubtless had embraced the Jewish faith and was now adopted into the tribe of Judah, to wife; and she bare him Attai. 36And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, 37and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, 38and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, 39and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, 40and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum, 41and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama. 42Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, those of his third wife, were Mesha, his first-born, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron. 43And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. 44And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam; and Rekem begat Shammai. 45And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. Maon founded a city named after him, and then founded the colony of Beth-zur. 46And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Mozah, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez. The last sentence is either a fuller explanation of the foregoing words, or indicates that son and grandson bore the same name. 47And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. 48Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber and Tirhanah. 49She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa, Josh. 15, 17. 50These were the sons of Caleb, who himself was a son of Hezron, v. 18, the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah: Shobal, the father of Kirjath-jearim; he founded this old Gibeonite town, formerly the heathen Baalah, in the northwest corner of Judah; 51Salma, the father, the founder or chief, of Bethlehem; Hareph, the father of Beth-gader, formerly known as Geder, Josh. 12, 13. 52And Shobal, the father of Kirjath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh (or Reaiah) and half of the Manahethites, his descendants making up half of the inhabitants of the town Manahath, near the border of Judah, toward Dan. 53And the families of Kirjath-jearim: the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites, four leading families of that territory; of them came the Zareathites and the Eshtaulites. 54The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, the people of Netophah, near Bethlehem, Ataroth, the house of Joab, another town, whose location, however, is unknown, and half of the Manahethites, the other half, cp. v. 52, the Zorites, of the border city of Zorah. 55And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez, either church or state officers belonging to the Kenite clan: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab, for the Rechabites were well known among the Jews. So wonderfully did the Lord bless the posterity of Caleb on account of his faithful stand for Jehovah in the wilderness, when ten of the spies filled the hearts of the people with fear, Num. 14, 24.