good, and the land ivas wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they os 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 unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there ivas pasture there for their flocks.

42 Andfome 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 I (hi.

43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

CHAP. V.

1 The line, and habitations of Reuben. 1 j

The chief men, and habitations of Gad.

NOW the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he ivas the firstborn; but forasmuch as be defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy 13 not to be reckoned after the birthright.

2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

3 The sons, Ifaj, of Reuben tbe firstborn of Israel ivere, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,

6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he ivas prince of the Reubenites.

7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, ivere the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

« A id Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Sliema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:

9 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagantes, who fell by their hand.: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

11 ff And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Baslian unto Salcah:

ij Joel the chief, and Shapham the

nextj.and Jaanai, and Shaphat lnBastian.

1 j And their brethren of the house of

their fathers nvere, Michael, and Meshul lam, and Shcba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zla, and Heber, seven.

• 1+ These are the children of Abiliail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the sou of Giltad, the son of Michael, the son of Jcihistiai, tile son of Jaltdo, the lbn of Buz;

15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.

»6 And they dwelt in Gilead in Basoan, and in hertowns.and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manafleh, of valiant men, men able to b'ear buckler and sword, and to moot with bow, and skilful in war, ivere four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

19 And they made war with the Hagarites,withjetur,and Nephilli,and Nodab.

20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagantes were delivered into their hand, and all that ivere with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of alses -two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

22 For there fell down many stain, because the war ivas of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

23 And the children of the half tribe of Manall'eh dwelt in the land: they increased si cm B.alhan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hennon.

24 And these -were the heads of the house of their fathers, even E 'her, and Istii, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodavkh, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

2? And they transgressed against the God of theirfathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Aflyria, an>the spirit of Tilgath-pilneserkingof Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and theGadites, and the half tribe of Manasieh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and -to the river Gozan. -unto this day.

CHAP.

fSe genealogy if Lrii.

CHAP. VI.

t The faults Leiii. 4 the line eftit trusts. 49 the <>fic<: ofAaron, and his line.

THE sons ot' Levi; Gerslion, Kohath, and Merari. * And tbe sons of Kohath; Amram, lihai, and Hebron, and UzzieJ.

3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons ■a iu of A.u'on ; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and It ham ar.

4 fj Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abiihua,

y And Abiihua begat Bukki, and Bakki begat Uzzi,

6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amaruih begat Ahitub,

% And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Abimaaz,

9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariali begat Jnhanan,

10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he/7 is that executed the priest's office in the tf*ple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

1 z And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shall urn j

13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

14. And Azariah begat Seraiah, and S«raiah begat Jehozatluk,

I j And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

16 The sons of Levi: Gersliom, Kohatb, and Merari.

1.7 And these be the names of the sons of Gerihom; Libni, and Shimei.

18 And the sons of Kohath ivere, Amram, andlzhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mnthi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

10 Of Gerihom j Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his ion,

si Joali his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

II The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

t} Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Astir his son,

34. Taliath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziali his son, and Shaul his son.

15 And the sons of Elkanah; Ainafai, and Ahimoth.

ii.fr/sr Elkanah :thesons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

17 Eliab his son, Jcroham his /on, Elkanah his son.

aS And the sons of Saniuel; the firstborn Vaslini, and Abiah.

*9 The so|»s of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,

■jo Shimei his son, Haggiah his son, Afaiah his son.

31 And these are they whom David set over the ieryiee of long in the house of the Lord, after that the ark had rest.

31 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the Congregation with singing, until Solomon had built tl>e bouse of the Loan in Jerusalem 1 and then they waited on their office, according to their order.

3] And thele are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a linger, the son of Joel, the son of Sheniuel,

34 The sou of Elkanah, the son of Jerohaiu, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the ion of Mahatb, the son of Amasai,

36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

37 The son of Taliath, the son of Astir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the ion of Levi, the son of Israel.

39 And his brother Aiaph, who stood on his right hand, e-ven Aiaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shirnea,

40 The soaof Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the ion of Malchiah,

41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiali,

41 The ion of Ethan, tbe son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

$3 The son of Jahath, the son of Gerihom, tbe sen of Levi.

44 And their brethren the sons of Merari, stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kilhi, the son of Abdi, the sen of Malluch,

45 The son of Hafhabiah, the son of Amaziah, the ion of Hilkiah,

46 The ion of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,

47 The son of Mahli, the son of Muslii, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

48 Their brethren alfothe Levites ivere appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

49 ^ But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and ivere appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

50 And these are the sons of Aaron; A a 4 Eleazar The fins ofljachar.

Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abiihua his son,

51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub liis son,

53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54. ^f Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castlesin their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for their's was the lot.

55 And they gave them Hebron in thelandof Judah, andthesuburbs thereof round about it.

56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

57'Ana to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Elhtemoa, with their suburbs,

58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth-ihemefh with her suburbs:

60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with hersuburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, tuere cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

62 And to the ions of Gerfhom, throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Amer, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh m Baflian, thirteen cities.

6 3 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out or the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve-cities.

6+ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs. - 65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children ot Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, ami out of the tribe of the children of Ben'amin, these cities, which are called by their names.

66 And the residue of the families of the sons of Koharh had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.

67 And they gave unto them, .(/the cities of refuge, Shechera in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

.68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs, . 69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs::

70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.

71 Unto the sons of Gerlhom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Balhan with her suburbs, and Amtaroth with hersuburbs;

71 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedelh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:

7+ And out of the tribe of Aflier; Mastial with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,

75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:

76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedelh in Galilee with her suburbs, aud Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.

77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari vjere given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:

78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, •were given them out of, the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with hersuburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:

80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

81 And Helhbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

CHAP. VII. 1 The sons of IJsachar, 6 of Benjamin, 13 of Naphtali, 14. of Manasseh, 10 ami Ephraim.

NOW the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jaihub, and Shimron, four.

2 And the sons of Tola; 'Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemucl, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Mhiah, five: all of them chief men.

+ And with them by their genera

uons»

tio:ts, after the house of their fathers, v>ere bands of soldiers for war, fix and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar -were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thou&nd.

6 4J Thefins of Benjamin; Bela, and Becner, and Jediael, three.

7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

8 And the sons of Beoher; Zemira, and Joasli, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Oinri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All thele ere the sons of Becher.

9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of. their fathers, mighty men of valour, -was twenty thousand and two hundred.

Io The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeufh, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zcthan, and Tarlhilh, and Ahisliahar.

Ii All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, •uiere seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

i iShuppimalso.andHuppim, the children of Ir, and Hufhim, the sons of Aher.

13 fl The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhali.

14. fl The sons of Manasseh; Afhriel, whom stie bare: {hut his concubine the Aramitese bare Machir the father of Gilead:

15 And Machir took to wife the fist er of Huppim and Shuppim, whose filter's name nvas Maachah;) and the name of tiie second ivas Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and me called his name Perefh; and the name of his brother tuas Sherestij and his sons <uiere Ulam and Rakem.

17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These -were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ilhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

19 And the sons of Shcmidah were, Ahian,andShechem,andLikhi,andAniam.

ao «] And the sens of Ephraim; Shu.

thelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

xi And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and E7.er, ;ind Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land flew, because they came down to take away their cuttle.

2i And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren- came to comiort him.

23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bare a lbn, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

24 (And his daughter -was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-iherah.)

25 And Rephah issas his son, also Restieph, and Eelah his son, and Tahan his son,

26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elistiama his son,

27 Non his son, Jebofhuah his son.

2$ And their possessions and habitations tvere, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof: Shechem also and the- towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:

29 Aid by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-mean and her towns, Taanachandhertowns.Megiddoandher towns, Dor and her towns. Inthesedwelt the children of Joseph the son os Ilraei.

30 The sons of Aslier; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ilhuai, and Beriah, and Scrah their sister.

31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchicl, who;/ the father of Birzavith.

32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shol mer, and Hotham, and Shua their lister.

33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bijnhal, and Aflivath. These are the children of Japhlet.

34. And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophali, and Imna, and Shelelh, and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah; S uah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, andlmrah,

37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilstiah, and Ithran, and Beera.

38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

+0 AU thele were the children of

Aslier, heads of their father's house,

choice and mighty men of valour,

chief of the princes. And the number

throughout throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle <wai twenty and six thousand men. CHAP. VIII. i The sons and chief men of Benjamin. 33 The stock of Saul and Jonathan.

NO W Benjamin begat Bela his first. born, Asijbel the second, and Aharah the third, sNohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, 4-And Abimua,andNaaman ,and Ahoah,

5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath s

7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, land Ahihud.

8 And Sh.aharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hulhim and Baaraowr* his wives.

9 And he begat of Hodeih his wife, Jotoa'o, and Zibia, and Melha.andMalcham,

10 And Jeuz, and Shacbia, and Mirrna. These -were his sons, heads of the fathers.

11 And of Husliim he begat Abitub, and Klpaal.

it The sons ofElpaal; Eber, and Mijtiam, and Shamed, who built Oho, and Lod, with the towns thereof:

13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalpn, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:

14. And Ahio, Shalhak, and Jeremoth,

15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, andAdar,

16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;

17 And Zebadiah, and Mefhullam, and Hczeki, and Heber,

18 Khmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;

i9And Jakim.and Zich-i, and Zabdi, aoAndElicnai, andZiItha;,andEliel, 11 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and

Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi; ai And Istipan, and Heber, and Eliel, 2 3AndAbdon,andZichri,andHanan, 34. And Hananiah, and Elam, and

Antothijah,

Ij And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the

sons of Shalhak; *6 And Shamfiierai, and Shehariah,

and Athaliah, *7 And Jarefiah, and Eliah, and

ISjchri, the sons of Jeroham. s8 Theft nvere heads of the fathers,

by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

»9 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name -was Maachah 1

30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kiih, and Baal, and Nadab,

31 AndGedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.

32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.

33^fAndNei-begat Kilh .andKisli begat

6aul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Mal

chi-tlun, and Abinadab, and Efh-baal.

J+ And the son of Jonathan was Me

rib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.

35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza.

37 AndMozabegat Binea: RapbaiuM his son, Eleatah his son, Azel h:s son:

3 8 And Azclhad six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Istimael, and Shcariah, and Obadiah, and Hunan. All these •were the sons of Azel.

39 And the sons of Efliek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehuflj the second, and Eliphelet the third.

+0 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, arid had many Ions, and sons' sons, an lumdredand fifty. All these are of the Ions of Beniamin.

CHAP. IX.' 1 The original oflfraets and Judah's gc

nealogies. 17 The charge ascertain Le

sites. 35 Sauss and Jonathan's stock.

SO all Israel were reckoned b,y genealogies, and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

i Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levitcs, and the Nethinims.

3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manalleh;

4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son os Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.

5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.

6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jehuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

7 And of the sons of Beniamin; Sallu

the son of Mcslnillam, the son os Hoda

viah, the son of Hasenuah, . ,

t And