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1 Chronicles 2:11-24 Modern English Version (MEV)

11. Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz.

12. Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse.

13. Now Jesse became the father ofhis firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

14. Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

15. Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

16. their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three in all.

17. Abigail bore Amasa: the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

18. Caleb the son of Hezron had children with his wife Azubah and with Jerioth. These are her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

19. Now Azubah died, and Caleb took Ephrath as a wife. She bore Hur for him.

20. Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.

21. Afterward Hezron had relations with the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as a wife when he was sixty years old, and she bore Segub for him.

22. Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

23. He took Geshur and Aram, the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

24. After the death of Hezron in Caleb Ephrathah, Hezron’s wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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