To the sons of Gershom were given from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and Ashtaroth, with their pasture lands;

from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and Daberath with their pasture lands,

Ramoth and Anem with their pasture lands;

from the tribe of Asher: Mashal and Abdon with their pasture lands,

Hukok and Rehob with their pasture lands;

and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon, and Kiriathaim with their pasture lands.

To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari were given, from the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono and Tabor, with their pasture lands;

and on the other side of the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan the Levites were given, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and Jahzah with their pasture lands,

Kedemoth and Mephaath with their pasture lands;

from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and Mahanaim with their pasture lands,

Heshbon and Jazer with their pasture lands.

The sons of Issachar were: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and children.

The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of the households of their fathers, courageous men. By their genealogies they were 22,034.

The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth, all these were sons of Becher.

The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

All these were the sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 courageous men of valor, fit for military service.

Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and Hushim the son of Aher.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Machir took as a wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim; her name was Maacah. The name of a second [descendant, the first being Gilead], was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had [only] daughters.

Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son; she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.

The sons of Shemida were: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead were killed by men who were natives of Gath, because they came down to take their livestock.

Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Beriah (on misfortune), because tragedy had come on his house.

Beriah’s daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and also Uzzen-sheerah.

Rephah was his son along with Resheph; Resheph’s son was Telah, Tahan his son,

Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, and Shechem, and as far as Ayyah with all their towns,

and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, Dor, with all their towns. In these [places] lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel (Jacob).

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

The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.

The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

The sons of Shemer (Shomer) [his brother]: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

The sons of his brother Helem (Hotham): Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth.

Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.

Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera—he forced them into exile; he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of Moab after he had sent away (divorced) Hushim and Baara his wives.

By Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.

By Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove out the inhabitants of Gath;

and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.

Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were the sons of Beriah.

Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.

Iphdeiah and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.

Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.

Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other relatives.

Ner became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of [King] Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal (Ish-bosheth).

The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza.

Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

The sons of Ulam were courageous men, archers, and had many sons and grandsons—150 in all. All these were of the sons (descendants) of Benjamin.

So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness [to God].

Now the first [of the returned exiles] who lived [again] in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim (temple servants).

Some of the sons (people) of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:

From the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

From the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their relatives, 690 [of them].

Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these men were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.

and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760—very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites [near Jerusalem].

The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum the chief

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, doorkeepers of the Tent; and their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entrance.

Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in times past, and the Lord was with him.

All those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. They were enrolled by their genealogies in their villages [around Jerusalem], these men [whose grandfathers] David and Samuel the seer had appointed to their official duty.

So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tabernacle, as guards.

The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides —on the east, west, north, and south.

for these Levites, the four chief gatekeepers, had an official duty, and were in charge of the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the [sacred] utensils of the sanctuary, as well as over the fine flour and the wine and the [olive] oil and the frankincense and the spices.

Now these are the singers, heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites, living in the temple chambers, free from other service because they were on duty day and night.

Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.

Ner became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of [King] Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea [and Ahaz].

Ahaz became the father of Jarah, and Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza,

Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

The Philistines followed closely after Saul and his sons and overtook them, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

The battle became heavy against Saul, and the archers found him; and he was [mortally] wounded by the archers.

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised [Philistines] will come and abuse and humiliate me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

So Saul died with his three sons and all those of his house died together.

When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip (plunder) the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

So they stripped Saul and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to bring the good news to their idols and to the people.

They put Saul’s armor in the house of their gods and nailed up his head in the house (temple) of Dagon.

all the brave men arose, took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh; then they fasted seven days.

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, for his failure to keep the word of the Lord; and also because he consulted a medium [regarding a spirit of the dead], to inquire of her,

and did not inquire of the Lord [instead]. Therefore the Lord killed him and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.