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,
25. his son Shallum, his son Mibsam, and his son Mishma.
26. The descendants of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur his son and Shimei his son.
27. Now Shimei had 16 sons and six daughters. But his brothers did not have many sons, so their family did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.
28. They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
29. Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
30. Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31. Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These were their towns until the reign of David,
32. together with their villages, Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan—five in all,
33. along with all the villages that surrounded these towns as far as Baal. These were their habitations. Registered in their genealogical records were:
34. Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
35. Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,