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the fifth Shephatiah, of Abital; the sixth Ithream, of Eglah his wife.

And the son of Solomon [is] Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

And sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

And sons of Jeconiah: Assir; Salathiel his son;

And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, `Because I have brought forth with grief.'

And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered father of Gedor, and Heber father of Socho, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. And these [are] sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took,

They [are] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; with the king in his work they dwelt there.

Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

And to Shimei [are] sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah.

As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel -- for he [is] the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and [he is] not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright [is] to Joseph.

Sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur removed; he [is] prince of the Reubenite.

And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, [are] heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah,