1 Chronicles 2
Bible in Basic English
1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;
2Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
3The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.
4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.
5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.
7And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.
8And the son of Ethan: Azariah.
9And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.
10And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;
11And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,
12And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,
13And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,
14Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,
15Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh;