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 when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore 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: five of them in all.

Whose 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 Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.

And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Harashim; for they were craftsmen.

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

And Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their leaders Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,

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

The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the 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 Nadab,

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

All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were recorded by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

And David said, Whosoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought tribute. Thus the LORD preserved David wherever he went.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

And the LORD spoke unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Shemei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to exalt the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

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

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

Now the acts of David the king, from first to last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,