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title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 Chronicles from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 2
verse_count: 55
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 Chronicles, chap. 2, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 Chronicles 2

*Israel and his posterity.*

**1** These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
**2** Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
**3** The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord; and he slew him.
**4** And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
**5** The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
**6** and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
**7** And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
**8** And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
**9** The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
**10** And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
**11** And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
**12** And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse.
**13** And Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
**14** Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
**15** Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
**16** Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
**17** And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
**18** And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
**19** And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
**20** And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
**21** And afterward Hezron went into the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was three-score years old: and she bare him Segub.
**22** And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
**23** And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even three-score cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
**24** And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
**25** And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were, Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
**26** Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
**27** And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
**28** And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.
**29** And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
**30** And the sons of Nadab Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
**31** And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
**32** And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
**33** And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
**34** Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
**35** And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
**36** And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
**37** And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
**38** And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
**39** And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
**40** And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
**41** And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
**42** Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his first-born, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
**43** And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
**44** And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam; and Rekem begat Shammai.
**45** And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
**46** And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.
**47** And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
**48** Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
**49** She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
**50** These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim.
**51** Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
**52** And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
**53** And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
**54** The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
**55** And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.