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Texts -- 1 Chronicles 2:41-55 (NET)

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2:41 Shallum was the father of Jekamiah , and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama .
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2:42 The sons of Caleb , Jerahmeel’s brother : His firstborn Mesha , the father of Ziph , and his second son Mareshah , the father of Hebron . 2:43 The sons of Hebron : Korah , Tappuah , Rekem , and Shema . 2:44 Shema was the father of Raham , the father of Jorkeam . Rekem was the father of Shammai . 2:45 Shammai’s son was Maon , who was the father of Beth-Zur . 2:46 Caleb’s concubine Ephah bore Haran , Moza , and Gazez . Haran was the father of Gazez . 2:47 The sons of Jahdai : Regem , Jotham , Geshan , Pelet , Ephah , and Shaaph . 2:48 Caleb’s concubine Maacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah . 2:49 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea . Caleb’s daughter was Achsah . 2:50 These were the descendants of Caleb . The sons of Hur , the firstborn of Ephrath : Shobal , the father of Kiriath Jearim , 2:51 Salma , the father of Bethlehem , Hareph , the father of Beth-Gader . 2:52 The sons of Shobal , the father of Kiriath Jearim , were Haroeh , half of the Manahathites , 2:53 the clans of Kiriath Jearim – the Ithrites , Puthites , Shumathites , and Mishraites . (The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these groups.) 2:54 The sons of Salma : Bethlehem , the Netophathites , Atroth Beth-Joab , half the Manahathites , the Zorites , 2:55 and the clans of the scribes who lived in Jabez : the Tirathites , Shimeathites , and Sucathites . These are the Kenites who descended from Hammath , the father of Beth-Rechab .

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