the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as a priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem.

So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits.

I was with you wherever you went and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.

I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you.

So now, O Lord, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised,

The son of Carmi: Achan, who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.

Recall the miraculous deeds he performed, his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,

Let the sea and everything in it shout! Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorites.

The sons born to Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.

Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, both of whom ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (This information is from ancient records.)

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.

and his son Beerah, whom King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah was the tribal leader of Reuben.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, after the ark was placed there.

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.

The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

When all the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,