And Abraham will beget Isaak. The sons of Isaak: Esau and Israel.

And Bela will die, and Jobab son of Zerah of Borah will reign in his stead.

And Jobab will die, and Husham from the land of the Temanites will reign in his stead.

And Husham will die, and Hadad son of Bedad will reign in his stead: he struck Midian in the field of Moab: and the name of his city, Avith.

And Hadad will die, and Samlah of Mazrekah will reign in his stead.

And Samlah will die, and Saul from Rehoboth of the river will reign in his stead.

And Saul will die, and Baal Hanan son of Achbor will reign in his stead.

And Baal-Hanan will die, and Hadad will reign in his stead: and the name of his city Pai; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

And Hadad will die. And the chiefs of Edom will be chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth.

The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Shelah: three were born to him from the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er the first-born of Judah will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah; and he will slay him.

And Tamar his daughter-in law will bring forth to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah, five.

And Azubah will die, and Caleb will take to him Ephrath, and she will bear to him Hur.

And afterward Hezron came in to the daughter of Machir father of Gilead; and he took her, and he the son of sixty years; and she will bear to him Segub.

And Segub begat Jair; and there will be to him twenty and three cities in the land of Gilead.

And he will take Geshur and Aram, with the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its daughters sixty cities. All these the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

And the sons of Jerahmeel, the first-born of Hezron will be the first born, Ram, and Bunah, and Oren and Ozem, Ahijah.

And another wife will be to Jerahmeel, and her name Atamh; she the mother of Onam.

And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel, will be Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

And the sons of Onam will be Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

And the name of Abishur's wife, Abihail; and she will bear to him Ahban and Molid.

And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim: and Seled will die, not sons to him.

And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan: and Jether will die without sons.

And there will be no sons to Sheshan, but daughters. And to Sheehan a servant, an Egyptian, and his name Jarha.

And Sheshan will give his daughter to Jarha his servant for a wife; and she will bear to him Attai.

And she will bear Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb, Achsah.

And to Shobal the father of the city of forests will be sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahethites.

Six were born to him in Hebron; and he will reign there seven years and six months: and thirty and three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

And Naarah will bear to him Ahuzzam and Hepher, and Temeni, and Hahashtari. These the sons of Naraah.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel: “If only You would bless me, extend my border, let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not cause any pain.” And God granted his request.

And the sons of Ezra, Jether and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she will conceive Miriam and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

And they will come to the entrance of Gedor, even to the sunrising of the valley to seek pasture for their sheep.

And they will find fat pasture and good, and the land wide of hands and resting and quiet; for from Ham dwelling there before.

And these being written by names, will come in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and they will strike their tents and their dwellings those being found there, and they will exterminate them even to this day, and they will dwell instead of them, for pasture there for their sheep.

And they will strike the rest of the escaping to Amalek, and they will dwell there even to this day.

Even though Judah became prominent among his relatives that is, the Commander-in-chief will be his descendant nevertheless the right of the firstborn went to Joseph.)

And Bela son of Azaz, son of She-ma son of Joel, he will dwell in Aroer, and even to Nebo, and Baal-Meon:

And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, and they will fall by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents upon all the face from the sunrising to Gilead.

And they will make war with the Hagarites, and Jetur and Nephish, and Nodab

And they will be helped against them, and the Hagarites will be given into their hand, and all with them: for they cried to God in the war, and he was entreated for them, for they trusted in him.

And they will take captive their cattle; their camels fifty thousand, and sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and asses two thousand, and the soul of man, a hundred thousand.

And they will transgress against the God of their fathers, and they will commit fornication after the gods of the peoples of the land, which God destroyed from before them.

And the God of Israel will rouse up the spirit of Pul, king of Assur and the spirit of Tilgath-Pileser, king of Assur; and he will carry them into exile to the Reubenites and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh; and he will bring them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and the river Gozan, even to this day.

And Azariah will beget Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

And they will be serving before the dwelling of the tent of appointment in song even till Solomon built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they will stand according to their judgment over their service.

And they will give to them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its areas round about it

And the sons of Israel will give to the Levites cities and their areas.

And they will give by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called them by names.

And from the families of the sons of Kohath and there will be cities of their bound from the tribe of the sons of Ephraim.

And they will give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and her areas in mount Ephraim and Gezer and her areas,

And Machir took a wife to Huppim and to Shuppim, and the name of his sister, Maachah;) and the name of the second, Zelophehad: and daughters will be to Zelophehad.

And Maachah the wife of Machir will bear a son, and she will call his name Peresh; and the name of his brother, Sheresh; and his sons Ulam and Rakem.

And the sons of Shemida will be Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

And their father Ephraim will mourn many days, and his brethren will come to comfort him.

And he will go in to his wife, and she will conceive and bear a son, and he will call his name Beriah, because it was in being evil with his house.

And his daughter Sherah, and she will build the house of the hollow, the lowest and the highest, and the ear of Sherah.

And the sons to Bela will be Adar and Gera and Abihud,

And these the sons of Ehud: these the heads of the fathers to the inhabitants of Geba; and they will carry them away captive to Manahath.

And he will beget from Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

And the sons of Ulam will be strong men of power, bending the bow, and many sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these from the sons of Benjamin.

To the four quarters will be the gates, from the sunrising, the sea, the north and the south.

And they will lodge round about the house of God, for upon them the watches, and they over its opening, and for morning to morning.

And from them over the vessels of the service, for by number they will bring them in, and by number they will carry them forth.

And the rovers waged war with Israel; and the man Israel will flee from the face of the rovers, and they will fall wounded in mount Gilboa.

And the rovers will pursue after Saul, and after his sons; and the rovers will strike Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

And the war will be heavy upon Saul, and they shooting with bows will find him, and he will be wounded from those shooting.

Saul told his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me." But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

And he lifting up his utensils will see that Saul died, and he will also fall upon the sword and die.

And Saul will die, and his three sons, and all his house together died.

And all the men of Israel which are in the valley will see that they fled, and that Saul and his sons died, and they will forsake their cities and will flee: and the rovers will come and dwell in them.

And it will be from the morrow, and the rovers will come to strip the wounded, and they will find Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

And they will strip him and lift up his head, and his weapons, and send into the land of the rovers round about, to announce the good news to their images and the people.

And they will set up his weapons in the house of their gods, and they fastened his skull in the house of Dagon.

And all Jabesh-Gilead will hear all that the rovers did to Saul,

And they will rise, every man of strength, and they will lift up the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and they will bring them to Jabesh, and they will bury their bones under an oak in Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.

And Saul will die in his transgression which he transgressed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah, which he watched not, and also for asking to a sorcerer to seek out;

And not seeking to Jehovah: and he will kill him, and turn the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

And all Israel will gather together to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we thy bone and thy flesh.

{For some time now}, even when Saul was king, you were {the one who led the army of Israel in battle}. And Yahweh your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel and will be leader over my people Israel.'"

And all the old men of Israel will come to the king to Hebron; and David will cut out to them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah; and they will anoint David for king over Israel according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Samuel.

And David will go, and all Israel to Jerusalem; this is Jebus; and there the Jebusites dwelling in the land.

And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not enter here." But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that [is,] the city of David.

Then David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief.

And he will build the city from round about from Millo, and even round about: and Joab will revive the remainder of the city.

And David will go, going and growing great: and Jehovah of armies with him.

He was with David in Pasdammim, and the rovers were gathered together there to war, and there will be a portion of the field filled with barley; and the people fled from before the rovers.

And they will set themselves in the midst of the portion, and they will deliver it and will strike the rovers; and Jehovah will save a great salvation.

And the three from the thirty heads will go down upon the rock to David to the cave of Adullam; and the camp of the rovers encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

And David longed, and said - Who will give me to drink of the water, out of the well of Bethlehem, that is within the gate?

And the three will break forth into the camp of the rovers, and draw waters from the well of the house of bread which is in the gate, and they will lift up and bring to David: and David would not drink them, and he will pour them forth to Jehovah.

And he will say, Far be it to me from my God from doing this: shall I drink the blood of these men with their souls? for with their souls they brought them. And he would not drink them. These did the three strong ones.

Of the three, above the two he was honored; and will be to them for chief: and even to the three he came not

And he struck the man, the Egyptian, a man of measure, five by the cubit; and in the hand of the Egyptian a spear as the beam of those weaving; and he went down to him with a rod, and he will take by force the spear from the hand of the Egyptian, and he will kill him with his spear.

From the thirty, behold, he was honored, and to three he came not: and David will set him over his audience.

And there will come from the sons of Benjamin and Judah even to the fortress to David:

And David went out {to meet them} and answered and said to them, "If you come in peace to me, to help me, {my heart will be joined with you}, but if [you come] to betray me to my adversaries, although [there is] no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment."

And the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the thirty: To thee David, and with thee, son of Jesse: peace, peace to thee, and peace to thy help; for thy God helped thee. And David will receive them and give them for heads of the troops.

And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at [the cost of] our heads."

And they helped with David against the troops: for strong ones of power all of them, and they will be chiefs in the army.

For at the time day by day they will come to David to he him, even a great camp as the camp of God.

And of the children of Issachar which were men that had understanding in the right time to know what Israel ought to do: The heads of them were two hundred, and all their brethren at their will.