The sons of Reuel, Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

And, the sons of Seir, Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, - and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.

And Bela died, - and there reigned in his stead, Jobab son of Zerah, of Bozrah.

And, Tamar his daughter-in-law, bare him, Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah, were five.

And, the sons of Zerah, Zimri and Ethan, and Heman and Calcol and Dara, all of them, five.

And, their sisters, were Zeruiah and Abigail, - and, the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai and Joab and Asahel, three,

And, the son of Shammai, was Maon, - and, Maon, was the father of Beth-zur.

And, the sons of Kenaz, were Othniel, and Seraiah, - and, the sons of Othniel, Hathath.

And, Meonothai, begat Ophrah, - and, Seraiah, begat Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, for they were, craftsmen.

The sons of Simeon, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul:

and Joel, - and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel:

And, some of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, five hundred men, - with Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head;

and, Azariah, begat Seraiah, and, Seraiah, begat Jehozadak;

Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah; -

The sons of Asher, Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi and Beriah, - and Serah their sister.

and his firstborn son, Abdon, and Zur and Kish, and Baal and Ner and Nadab, -

And, of the sons of Zerah, Jeuel, - and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

All those who were chosen for door-keepers in the vestibule, were two hundred and twelve, - the same, in their villages, had registered themselves, the same, did David and Samuel the seer establish in their trust.

and, his firstborn son, Abdon, - and Zur, and Kish, and Baal and Ner, and Nadab;

And the battle, went sore, against Saul, and the archers discovered him with the bow, - and he was terrified because of the archers.

And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, first, shall become a chief, and a ruler, - So then Joab son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became a chief.

Zelek, the Ammonite, - Naharai, the Berothite, the armour-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah;

And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and so it was that the Syrians became, David's, servants, bearers of a present, - so Yahweh gave victory to David, whithersoever he went.

Moreover, Abishai, son of Zeruiah, smote Edom, in the Valley of Salt, - eighteen thousand;

and, Joab, son of Zeruiah, was over the army, - and, Jehoshaphat, son of Elihud, was recorder;

Then spake Yahweh unto Gad, the seer of David saying:

Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun, - Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah - six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, with the lyre, as he prophesied, in giving thanks and offering praise unto Yahweh.

All these, were sons of Heman, the seer of the king in the things of God, at the lifting of the horn. And God gave to Heman, fourteen sons and three daughters,

And, all that Samuel the seer, and Saul son of Kish, and Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah, had hallowed, whosoever had hallowed anything, it was under the direction of Shelomoth, and his brethren.

Joab son of Zeruiah, began to number, but finished not, when there arose, on this account, indignation against Israel, - neither did the number come up into the account of the chronicles of King David.

Now, the acts of David the king, first and last, behold them! written in the records of Samuel the seer, and in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the records of Gad the seer: