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 Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

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

Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah were 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 brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.

And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the son of Othniel was Hathath.

And Meonothai fathered Ophrah. And Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of the Valley of the Craftsmen. For they were craftsmen.

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

and Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

And some of them, 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 Ishi.

And Azariah fathered Seraiah. And Seraiah fathered Jehozadak.

Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah; and Serah their sister.

And his first-born son was Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

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

All these chosen for gatekeepers in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These by their genealogies, in their villages, were the ones David and Samuel the seer ordained in their set office.

And his first-born son was Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

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

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

And it will be, when your days have ended so that you must go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be from your sons. And I will make his kingdom sure.

Then David placed troops in Syria, in Damascus. And the Syrians became David's servants, bringing gifts. And Jehovah preserved David wherever he went.

And Abishai the son of Zeruiah killed eighteen thousand of the men of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

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

And the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves stink before David, and Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out of Maachah of Syria, and out of Zobah.

And the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were beaten before Israel, and they made peace with David and became his servants. And Syria was not willing to help the sons of Ammon any more.

And Jehovah spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,

Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, and Shimei, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre to give thanks and to praise Jehovah.

All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up 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. Whoever had dedicated anything, it was at the hand of Shelomith and of his brothers.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he did not finish because wrath fell against the sons of Israel for this. And the number did not go up in the account of the chronicles of King David.

And the acts of David the king, first and 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,