Ruth 4:17-22
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17 The neighbor women joined the celebration: “A son has been born to Naomi!”(A) They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18 (B)These are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,(C) 19 Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab, 20 (D)Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salma, 21 Salma was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed, 22 (E)Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
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1 Chronicles 2:1-15
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Chapter 2
1 These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,(A) 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.(B)
Judah. 3 The sons of Judah[a] were: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bathshua, a Canaanite woman, bore to him. But Judah’s firstborn, Er, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so he took his life.(C) 4 Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore him Perez and Zerah, so that he had five sons in all.(D)
5 The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.(E) 6 The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda—five in all.(F) 7 The sons of Zimri: Carmi. The sons of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban.(G) 8 The sons of Ethan: Azariah. 9 The sons born to Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.[b](H)
10 [c]Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, a prince of the Judahites.(I) 11 (J)Nahshon became the father of Salmah. Salmah became the father of Boaz. 12 Boaz became the father of Obed. Obed became the father of Jesse. 13 (K)Jesse became the father of Eliab, his firstborn, of Abinadab, the second son, Shimea, the third,(L) 14 Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth, 15 Ozem, the sixth, and David, the seventh.
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- 2:3–4:23 The Chronicler had two reasons for placing his genealogy of the tribe of Judah before those of the other tribes, and for making it longer than all the others: his interest in David, who was of the tribe of Judah; and the prominence of descendants of that tribe among the Jews of the Chronicler’s time.
- 2:9 Chelubai: a variant form of the name Caleb (vv. 18, 42), a different person from the Chelub mentioned in 4:11.
- 2:10–17 These verses list the immediate ancestors of David. A similar list appears in Ru 4:18–22.
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