10. Jabez called out to the God of Israel, saying, “If only You would greatly bless me, and enlarge my territory. Let Your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I might not suffer pain.” Adonai granted what he asked.
11. Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12. Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.
13. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hatath
14. and Meonothai, who fathered Ophrah. Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim , for they were craftsmen.
15. The sons of Caleb, son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
16. The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiriah and Asarel.
17. The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. She also bore Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18. (His Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soho and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.) These were the sons of Bithiah, Pharaoh’s daughter whom Mered married.
19. The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20. The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
21. The sons of Shelah, son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Ladah the father of Mareshah, the families of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,
22. and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab and Jashubi-lehem (the records are ancient).
23. These were the potters and those who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there while doing the king’s work.
24. The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamim, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul,