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# 1 Chronicles 4

1 Chronicles 4 is chapter 4 of 29 in the First Book of Chronicles. Here are all 43 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Other genealogies of Juda and Simeon, and their victories.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Chronicles 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2. Truly, Reaiah, the son of Shobal, conceived Jahath; from him were born Ahumai and Lahad. These are the kindred of the Zorathites.
3. And this is the stock of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
4. Now Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratha, the father of Bethlehem.
5. Truly, for Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, there were two wives: Helah and Naarah.
6. And Naarah bore to him: Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These are the sons of Naarah.
7. And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
8. Now Koz conceived Anub, and Zobebah, and the kindred of Aharhel, the son of Harum.
9. But Jabez was renowned, more so than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “For I bore him in sorrow.”
10. Truly, Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “If only, when blessing, you will bless me, and will broaden my borders, and your hand will be with me, and you will cause me not to be oppressed by evil.” And God granted to him the things for which he prayed.
11. Now Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, conceived Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12. Then Eshton conceived Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
13. Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.
14. Meonothai conceived Ophrah, but Seraiah conceived Joab, the father of the Valley of Artisans. For indeed, there were artisans there.
15. Truly, the sons of Chelub, the son of Jephunneh, were Iru, and Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz.
16. Also, the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.
17. And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and he conceived Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
18. And then his wife, Judaia, bore Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah. Now there were sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married,
19. and sons of his wife Hodiah, the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and of Eshtemoa, who was from Maacathi.
20. And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, son of Hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Benzoheth.
21. The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the kindred of the house of the workers of fine linen in the house of the oath,
22. and he who caused the sun to stand still, and the men of Lying, and Secure, and Burning, who were leaders in Moab, and who returned into Lehem. Now these words are ancient.
23. These are the potters living in the Plantations and in the Hedges, with a king in his works, and they were dwelling there.
24. The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
25. Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26. The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27. The sons of Shimei were sixteen, and there were six daughters. But his brothers did not have many sons, and the entire kindred was not equal to the sum of the sons of Judah.
28. Now they lived in Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
29. and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad,
30. and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag,
31. and in Beth-marcaboth, and in Hazarsusim, and in Bethbiri, and in Shaaraim. These were their cities until king David.
32. And their towns were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
33. with all their villages, on every side of these cities, as far as Baal. This is their habitation and the distribution of the settlements.
34. And there were Meshobab and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
35. and Joel, and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
36. and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
37. as well as Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.
38. These were the names of the leaders in their kindred. And they were multiplied greatly within the houses of their marriages.
39. And they set out, so that they might enter into Gedor, as far as the eastern valley, and so that they might seek pastures for their flocks.
40. And they found fat and very good pastures, and a very wide and quiet and fruitful land, in which some from the stock of Ham had lived before.
41. So then, those whose names have been written above, went forth in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah. And they struck down the inhabitants who had been found there with their dwellings. And they wiped them out, even to the present day. And they lived in place of them, because they found very fat pastures there.
42. Also, some of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went away to mount Seir, having as leaders Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43. And they struck down the remnant of the Amalekites, those who had been able to escape, and they lived there in place of them, even to this day.

## 1 Chronicles 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Filii Juda: Phares, Hesron, et Charmi, et Hur, et Sobal.
2. Raia vero filius Sobal genuit Jahath, de quo nati sunt Ahumai, et Laad: hæ cognationes Sarathi.
3. Ista quoque stirps Etam: Jezrahel, et Jesema, et Jedebos. Nomen quoque sororis eorum, Asalelphuni.
4. Phanuel autem pater Gedor, et Ezer pater Hosa: isti sunt filii Hur primogeniti Ephratha patris Bethlehem.
5. Assur vero patri Thecuæ erant duæ uxores, Halaa et Naara.
6. Peperit autem ei Naara, Oozam, et Hepher, et Themani, et Ahasthari: isti sunt filii Naara.
7. Porro filii Halaa, Sereth, Isaar et Ethnan.
8. Cos autem genuit Anob, et Soboba, et cognationem Aharehel filii Arum.
9. Fuit autem Jabes inclytus præ fratribus suis, et mater ejus vocavit nomen illius Jabes, dicens: Quia peperi eum in dolore.
10. Invocavit vero Jabes Deum Israël, dicens: Si benedicens benedixeris mihi, et dilataveris terminos meos, et fuerit manus tua mecum, et feceris me a malitia non opprimi. Et præstitit Deus quæ precatus est.
11. Caleb autem frater Sua genuit Mahir, qui fuit pater Esthon.
12. Porro Esthon genuit Bethrapha, et Phesse, et Tehinna patrem urbis Naas: hi sunt viri Recha.
13. Filii autem Cenez, Othoniel, et Saraia. Porro filii Othoniel, Hathath, et Maonathi.
14. Maonathi genuit Ophra, Saraia autem genuit Joab patrem Vallis artificum: ibi quippe artifices erant.
15. Filii vero Caleb filii Jephone, Hir, et Ela, et Naham. Filii quoque Ela: Cenez.
16. Filii quoque Jaleleel: Ziph, et Zipha, Thiria, et Asraël.
17. Et filii Ezra, Jether, et Mered, et Epher, et Jalon, genuitque Mariam, et Sammai, et Jesba patrem Esthamo.
18. Uxor quoque ejus Judaia, peperit Jared patrem Gedor, et Heber patrem Socho, et Icuthiel patrem Zanoë: hi autem filii Bethiæ filiæ Pharaonis, quam accepit Mered.
19. Et filii uxoris Odaiæ sororis Naham patris Ceila, Garmi, et Esthamo, qui fuit de Machathi.
20. Filii quoque Simon, Amnon, et Rinna filius Hanan, et Thilon. Et filii Jesi, Zoheth, et Benzoheth.
21. Filii Sela, filii Juda: Her pater Lecha, et Laada pater Maresa, et cognationes domus operantium byssum in domo juramenti.
22. Et qui stare fecit solem, virique Mendacii, et Securus, et Incendens, qui principes fuerunt in Moab, et qui reversi sunt in Lahem: hæc autem verba vetera.
23. Hi sunt figuli habitantes in plantationibus et in sepibus, apud regem in operibus ejus: commoratique sunt ibi.
24. Filii Simeon: Namuel et Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul.
25. Sellum filius ejus, Mapsam filius ejus, Masma filius ejus.
26. Filii Masma: Hamuel filius ejus, Zachur filius ejus, Semei filius ejus.
27. Filii Semei sedecim, et filiæ sex: fratres autem ejus non habuerunt filios multos, et universa cognatio non potuit adæquare summam filiorum Juda.
28. Habitaverunt autem in Bersabee, et Molada, et Hasarsuhal,
29. et in Bala, et in Asom, et in Tholad,
30. et in Bathuel, et in Horma, et in Siceleg,
31. et in Bethmarchaboth, et in Hasarsusim, et in Bethberai, et in Saarim: hæ civitates eorum usque ad regem David.
32. Villæ quoque eorum: Etam, et Aën, Remmon, et Thochen, et Asan, civitates quinque.
33. Et universi viculi eorum per circuitum civitatum istarum usque ad Baal: hæc est habitatio eorum, et sedium distributio.
34. Mosobab quoque et Jemlech, et Josa filius Amasiæ,
35. et Joël, et Jehu filius Josabiæ filii Saraiæ filii Asiel,
36. et Elioënai, et Jacoba, et Isuhaia, et Asaia, et Adiel, et Ismiel, et Banaia,
37. Ziza quoque filius Sephei filii Allon filii Idaia filii Semri filii Samaia.
38. Isti sunt nominati principes in cognationibus suis, et in domo affinitatum suarum multiplicati sunt vehementer.
39. Et profecti sunt ut ingrederentur in Gador usque ad orientem vallis, et ut quærerent pascua gregibus suis.
40. Inveneruntque pascuas uberes, et valde bonas, et terram latissimam et quietam et fertilem, in qua ante habitaverant de stirpe Cham.
41. Hi ergo venerunt, quos supra descripsimus nominatim, in diebus Ezechiæ regis Juda: et percusserunt tabernacula eorum, et habitatores qui inventi fuerant ibi, et deleverunt eos usque in præsentem diem: habitaveruntque pro eis, quoniam uberrimas pascuas ibidem repererunt.
42. De filiis quoque Simeon abierunt in montem Seir viri quingenti, habentes principes Phalthiam et Naariam et Raphaiam et Oziel filios Jesi:
43. et percusserunt reliquias, quæ evadere potuerant, Amalecitarum, et habitaverunt ibi pro eis usque ad diem hanc.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 9: That is, sorrowful.
- Verse 22: Viz., Joazim, the meaning of whose name in Hebrew is, he that made the sun to stand. In like manner the following names, Lying (Chozeba), Secure (Joas), and Burning (Saraph), are substituted in place of the Hebrew names of the same signification.
- Verse 23: These are the proper names of the places where they dwelt. In Hebrew Atharim and Gadira.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).