1 Chronicles 4; 1 Chronicles 5; 1 Chronicles 6; John 6:1-21

1 Chronicles 4

1 Judah's family: Perez, Hezron, Caleb, Hur, and Shobal.

2 Shobal's son Reaiah was Jahath's father, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the Zorathite clans.

3 This was Etam's family: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. Their sister's name was Hazzelelponi.

4 Penuel was Gedor's father, and Ezer was Hushah's father. This was the family of Hur the oldest son of Ephrathah, Bethlehem's father:

5 Ashhur, Tekoa's father, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

6 Naarah gave birth to Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari for him. This was Naarah's family.

7 Helah's family: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan.

8 Koz was the father of Anub, Hazzobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, Harum's son.

9 Jabez was more honored than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I bore him in pain."

10 Jabez called on Israel's God: "If only you would greatly bless me and increase my territory. May your power go with me to keep me from trouble, so as not to cause me pain." And God granted his request.

11 Chelub, Shuhah's brother, was the father of Mehir, who was Eshton's father.

12 Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, Ir-nahash's father. These are the men of Recah.

13 Kenaz's family: Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel's family: Hathath and Meonothai.

14 Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were skilled workers.

15 The family of Caleb, Jephunneh's son: Iru, Elah, and Naam. This was Kenaz's family.

16 Jehallelel's family: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

17 Ezrah's family: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Jether was the father of Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, Eshtemoa's father.

18 His Judean wife gave birth to Jered, Gedor's father; Heber, Soco's father; and Jekuthiel, Zanoah's father. This is the family of Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom Mered married.

19 The family of his Judean wife, the sister of Naham, Keilah's father the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

20 Shimon's family: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. Ishi's family: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

21 The family of Shelah, Judah's son: Er, Lecah's father; Laadah, Mareshah's father; the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

22 Jokim; the men of Cozeba; Joash; and Saraph, who married into Moab but returned to Bethlehem (the records are ancient).

23 They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king in his service.

24 Simeon's family: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul,

25 his son Shallum, his son Mibsam, and his son Mishma.

26 Mishma's family: his son Hammuel, his son Zaccur, and his son Shimei.

27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, and none of their clans became as numerous as the Judeans.

28 They lived 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 David became king.

32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—

33 as well as all their villages around these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept their own family records:

34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah,

35 Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah son of Seraiah son of Asiel,

36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,

37 and Ziza son of Shiphi son of Allon son of Jedaiah son of Shimri son of Shemaiah.

38 These mentioned by name were leaders in their clans, and their households increased greatly.

39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to find pasture for their flocks.

40 They found fertile pasture, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful; the people of Ham used to live there.

41 These whose names were recorded, however, came in the days of Judah's King Hezekiah, attacked their tents and the Meunim found there, and completely destroyed them, as can be seen today. They settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42 Some of them, five hundred Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, Ishi's sons.

43 They struck down those who were left of the Amalekites and have lived there ever since.

1 Chronicles 5

1 The family of Reuben, Israel's oldest son: he was actually the oldest, but when he dishonored his father's bed his birthright was given to the family of Joseph, Israel's son, so Reuben isn't listed as the oldest in the records.

2 Although Judah became the strongest among his brothers and a leader came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

3 The family of Reuben, Israel's oldest son: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

4 Joel's family: his son Shemaiah, his son Gog, his son Shimei,

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

6 and his son Beerah, whom Assyria's King Tilgath-pilneser carried away into exile. He was a chief of the Reubenites.

7 His relatives, by their clans when their genealogy was listed in the records, were: Jeiel the first; Zechariah;

8 and Bela, Azaz's son, Shema's grandson, and Joel's great-grandson. They lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.

9 They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that stretches to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

10 In Saul's days they waged war on the Hagrites, whom they defeated. So they lived in their tents throughout the entire region east of Gilead.

11 Gad's family lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

12 Joel was the first, Shapham the second, and Janai governed Bashan.

13 Their relatives according to their households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all.

14 This was the family of Abihail son of Huri son of Jaroah son of Gilead son of Michael son of Jeshishai son of Jahdo son of Buz.

15 Ahi, Abdiel's son and Guni's grandson, was the head of their household.

16 They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and as far as the boundaries of all the open lands of Sharon.

17 They were all listed in the records in the days of Judah's King Jotham and Israel's King Jeroboam.

18 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh were warriors who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war—44,760 ready for military service.

19 When they waged war on the Hagrites (the Jeturites, the Naphishites, and the Nodabites),

20 they received help against them. The Hagrites and all who were with them were handed over to them, because they cried out to God in battle. God granted their prayer because they trusted in him.

21 They seized their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep and goats, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 captives.

22 Many died, because God fought the battle. They lived there in place of the inhabitants until the exile.

23 The members of half the tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were very numerous.

24 These were the heads of their households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their households.

25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and faithlessly followed the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

26 As a result, Israel's God stirred up the spirit of Assyria's King Pul, otherwise known as Assyria's King Tilgath-pilneser, who led the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh into exile, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the Gozan River, where they remain to this day.

1 Chronicles 6

1 Levi's family: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Kohath's family: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

3 Amram's family: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. Aaron's family: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

4 Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas of Abishua,

5 Abishua of Bukki, Bukki of Uzzi,

6 Uzzi of Zerahiah, Zerahiah of Meraioth,

7 Meraioth of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub,

8 Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahimaaz,

9 Ahimaaz of Azariah, Azariah of Johanan,

10 and Johanan of Azariah. He was the one who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

11 Azariah was the father of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub,

12 Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum,

13 Shallum of Hilkiah, Hilkiah of Azariah,

14 Azariah of Seraiah, and Seraiah of Jehozadak.

15 Jehozadak went away when the LORD caused Judah and Jerusalem to be exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.

16 Levi's family: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

17 These are the names of Gershom's family: Libni and Shimei.

18 Kohath's family: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

19 Merari's family: Mahli and Mushi. These are the Levites' clans according to their fathers:

20 Of Gershom: his son Libni, his son Jahath, his son Zimmah,

21 his son Joah, his son Iddo, his son Zerah, and his son Jeatherai.

22 Kohath's family: his son Amminadab, his son Korah, his son Assir,

23 his son Elkanah, his son Ebiasaph, his son Assir,

24 his son Tahath, his son Uriel, his son Uzziah, and his son Shaul.

25 Elkanah's family: Amasai and Ahimoth,

26 his son Elkanah, his son Zophai, his son Nahath,

27 his son Eliab, his son Jeroham, and his son Elkanah.

28 Samuel's family: the oldest Joel, and the second Abijah.

29 Merari's family: Mahli, his son Libni, his son Shimei, his son Uzzah,

30 his son Shimea, his son Haggiah, and his son Asaiah.

31 David put the following in charge of the music in the LORD's house after the chest was placed there.

32 They ministered with song before the dwelling of the meeting tent, until Solomon built the LORD's temple in Jerusalem. They carried out their usual duties.

33 Those who served and their families were: Kohath's family: Heman the singer, son of Joel son of Samuel

34 son of Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Eliel son of Toah

35 son of Zuph son of Elkanah son of Mahath son of Amasai

36 son of Elkanah son of Joel son of Azariah son of Zephaniah

37 son of Tahath son of Assir son of Ebiasaph son of Korah

38 son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi son of Israel.

39 His relative was Asaph, who stood on his right, that is, Asaph son of Berechiah son of Shimea

40 son of Michael son of Baaseiah son of Malchijah

41 son of Ethni son of Zerah son of Adaiah

42 son of Ethan son of Zimmah son of Shimei

43 son of Jahath son of Gershom son of Levi.

44 On the left were their relatives, Merari's family: Ethan son of Kishi son of Abdi son of Malluch

45 son of Hashabiah son of Amaziah son of Hilkiah

46 son of Amzi son of Bani son of Shemer

47 son of Mahli son of Mushi son of Merari son of Levi.

48 Their relatives the Levites were dedicated to all the services of the dwelling for God's house.

49 Aaron and his sons sacrificed on the altar for entirely burned offerings and on the altar for incense, doing all the work of the holiest place, to make reconciliation for Israel, just as Moses, God's servant, had commanded.

50 This was Aaron's family: his son Eleazar, his son Phinehas, his son Abishua,

51 his son Bukki, his son Uzzi, his son Zerahiah,

52 his son Meraioth, his son Amariah, his son Ahitub,

53 his son Zadok, and his son Ahimaaz.

54 These are the places they lived by their camps within their territory. To Aaron's family from the Kohathite clan, as chosen by lot,

55 they gave Hebron in the land of Judah with its surrounding pasturelands.

56 But the city's fields and its settlements they gave to Caleb, Jephunneh's son.

57 To Aaron's family they gave the refuge cities: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

58 Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

59 Ashan with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands.

60 From Benjamin's tribe: Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. They had thirteen towns within their clan.

61 The remaining Kohathites were given ten towns by lot from the clan of half the tribe of Manasseh.

62 The Gershomites received by lot according to their clans thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.

63 The Merarites received by lot according to their clans twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

64 In this way the Israelites gave the Levites the towns with their pasturelands.

65 They gave these towns, which they designated by name, by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

66 Some of the Kohathite clans had towns of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

67 They gave them refuge cities: Shechem with its pasturelands in the Ephraimite highlands, Gezer with its pasturelands,

68 Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands,

69 Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands;

70 and from half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the Kohathite clans who remained.

71 To the Gershomites from the clan of half the tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;

72 from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands and Daberath with its pasturelands,

73 Ramoth with its pasturelands and Anem with its pasturelands;

74 from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, and

75 Helkath with its pasturelands and Rehob with its pasturelands;

76 and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.

77 To the remaining Merarites from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam with its pasturelands, Rimmon with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands, and Nahalal with its pasturelands;

78 on the other side of the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the desert with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,

79 Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands;

80 and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

81 Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.

John 6:1-21

1 After this Jesus went across the Galilee Sea (that is, the Tiberias Sea).

2 A large crowd followed him, because they had seen the miraculous signs he had done among the sick.

3 Jesus went up a mountain and sat there with his disciples.

4 It was nearly time for Passover, the Jewish festival.

5 Jesus looked up and saw the large crowd coming toward him. He asked Philip, "Where will we buy food to feed these people?"

6 Jesus said this to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, "More than a half year's salary worth of food wouldn't be enough for each person to have even a little bit."

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said,

9 "A youth here has five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that for a crowd like this?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there. They sat down, about five thousand of them.

11 Then Jesus took the bread. When he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, each getting as much as they wanted.

12 When they had plenty to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing will be wasted."

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves that had been left over by those who had eaten.

14 When the people saw that he had done a miraculous sign, they said, "This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world."

15 Jesus understood that they were about to come and force him to be their king, so he took refuge again, alone on a mountain.

16 When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake.

17 They got into a boat and were crossing the lake to Capernaum. It was already getting dark and Jesus hadn't come to them yet.

18 The water was getting rough because a strong wind was blowing.

19 When the wind had driven them out for about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water. He was approaching the boat and they were afraid.

20 He said to them, "I Am. Don't be afraid."

21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and just then the boat reached the land where they had been heading.