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these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
39
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40
They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
41
These written by name came in the days of Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, and struck their tents, and the Me`unim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42
Some of them, even of the sons of Shim`on, five hundred men, went to Mount Se`ir, having for their captains Pelatyah, and Ne`aryah, and Refayah, and `Uzzi'el, the sons of Yish`i.
43
They struck the remnant of the `Amaleki who escaped, and have lived there to this day.