1 Chronicles 4:1-7

1 The sons of Yehudah: Peretz, Hetzron, and Karmi, and Hur, and Shoval.

2 Re'ayah the son of Shoval became the father of Yachat; and Yachat became the father of Achumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Tzor`ati.

3 These were [the sons of] the father of `Etam: Yizre`el, and Yishma, and Yidbash; and the name of their sister was Hatztzelel-Poni;

4 and Penu'el the father of Gedor, and Etzer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Efratah, the father of Beit-Lechem.

5 Ashshur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Hel'ah and Na`arah.

6 Na`arah bore him Achuzzam, and Hefer, and Timni, and Achashtari. These were the sons of Na`arah.

7 The sons of Hel'ah were Tzeret, Tzochar, and Etnan.

1 Chronicles 4:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 4

In this chapter is a further account of the tribe of Judah, and of some principal families in it, 1Ch 4:1-23 and of the tribe of Simeon, their families, cities, and villages, 1Ch 4:24-38 and of the enlargement of their borders, and conquest of the Amalekites, 1Ch 4:39-43.