First Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 945
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
and Sheriah, and of the Lower Athnial. And from Aunothi were begotten
Aferah; and Seriah, begot ]oab, the founder of the lower Kharoshim: for they are the Kharoshim. And the sons of Kaleb·ben—]afuneh;
were,——Airu, Alah, and Nam. And the sons of Aiah were, Alah and Kenez. TTNIES.-I. CHRON. 4——·43 and Shamai had sixteen sons, and And the sons of jhelelal; Zif, and
Zifah, Thiriah, and Ashral. And the sons of Azreh were, jether, and Merad, and Afer, and jalon, and Thahr, and Ishakh, the founder of Ashtemoah. judiah his wife bore jared, the founder of Gheder; and Kheber, the founder of Shoko jekuthel the founder of Zanokh, these were the sons of Bethiahf, the daughter of Pharaoh, who married Merad. And the sons of the wife of Hodiah,
the sister of Naham, the founder of Kailah, of the Gerannites, and Ashle- moah of the Makathites. And the sons of Shimon were,
Amnou, and Rinah; end Ben—Kanau; and Tholan. And the sons of Ishai were Zokhath, and Ben—Zokhath. The sons of Shilah were Ben-
jhodad; Ar, the founder of Likah; and Ladah, the founder of Marshab; and the clans of the houses of Beth- abelath,--the splendid House of
22 Ashba, and the jokim, and the 26 Princes of Kozna, and joask, and for the king. The sons of Shimeon. Saraf, who were Masters in Moab, end resided in Lakhem, according to old records. They were Mechanists and settled in Colonies and Munici- palities. They settled there to work Nemual, and jamin, jarib, Zarakh,
Shaul. His son Shalim; his son Mibsham; his sou Mishma. And the sons of Mishma, were Khamwal; his son of Zaker, his son Shamai; six daughters, but his brother had not many sons, nor did the whole family increase like the sons of judah. But they occupied Barsheba, and Moladah, and Kbatzar-Shuel, and Bilahsh, and Atzam, and T holad, and Bathnal, and Kharmah, and Ziklag; and Beth—Merkaboth, and Khetzer, and Susini, and Beth-Birai, and Sharam;-—These were their Cities until the reign of David. And their towns were Aitam, and
Ain·rimon, and '1`hokom, and Ashan; five towns, and all the villages 27 28
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around the cities, whom they con- trolled, with their title·deeds from the family registers, and records of 34 restored estates,1 and successions, and property of eldest sons; who were, }oal, and ]hoa—ben-]oshibiah,- ben—Seriah-ben-Ashial; and Aliwani 35 and jakbah, and Ishokhiah, and 36 Asiah, and Adial, and rlsimal, and Beniah; and Ziza,—ben-Shifai—ben- 37 Alon - ben —]adiah — ben - Shimri - ben- Shamiah; These became Princes by 38 name, in their clans, andextended the houses of their ancestors,——when 39 they emigrated to Gheder in the eastern plain, to seek pasture for their flocks, and found rich and good 4o pasture and a wide country ready for them, and quiet and peaceable, for the previous inhabitants there were Blacks.? So those mentioned by 4: name, above, advanced in the days of Hezekiah King of judah, and attacked their tents, and the wells that they found there, and succeeded them until this day, and settled in their place,——for there was pasture for their flocks. Some of the de- 42 scendants of Simeon, tive hundred men, went from them to Mount Sair, with Flatiah, and Nariah, and Reiiah, and Azialpben-Ishai was at their head, and attacked the remnant of 43 1 No·rE.——-Ch. 4, v. 34, I think condrms myview that these lists are a heterogeneous mass of enquiries by Ezra in endeavouring to ascer- tain and settle the claims of the returned Transports from Babel to the lands of their ancestors. See general note at the beginning of Ch. 1.-—~F. F. This
short historical note is of importance in an hnoloical oint of viewand illustrates th etgp, e value 0 the criptural records to the student of human history, as compared with the etlgncgogical blindness ofthe Pagan Writers. H 2 945
