⁴² And all the men of Judah gave this answer to the men of Israel, Because the king is our near relation: why then are you angry about this? have we taken any of the king's food, or has he given us any offering?

¹² You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

¹ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

³ The 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.

⁴ And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

⁵ The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

⁶ And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.

⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.

⁸ And the son of Ethan: Azariah.

⁹ And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.

¹⁰ And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

¹¹ And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

¹² And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,

¹³ And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

¹⁴ Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

¹⁵ Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh;

¹⁶ And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

¹⁷ And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.