I Chronicles 4 (NIV)

Summary:

Other Clans of Judah
Verses 1-23

Key: [] = Mother
         + = Firstborn Son
         * = Son
        d  = Daughter
        w = Wife

Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, Shobal
Shobal -> Zorathites: Reaiah -> *Jahath -> *Ahumai, *Lahad

Hur (firstborn of Ephrathah; leader of Bethlehem) -> *Etam
Etam -> *Jezreel, *Ishma, *Idbash, d. Hazzelponi, *Penuel -> *Gedor, *Ezer -> *Hushah

(Judah -> *Perez -> *Hezron -> *) Asshur -> *Tekoa
Asshur: w.Helah -> *Zereth, *Zohar, *Ethnan, *Koz -> *Anub, *Hazzobebah, clans of Aharhel (son of Harum)
            w.Naarah -> *Temeni, *Hepher, *Ahuzzam, *Haahashtari

Jabez (name is similar to the word for "pain")
-more honorable than his brothers
-mother cried out about her birthing pains
-Jabez cried to God, asking Him to enlarge his territory, to be with him, and keep him from harm and pain. 
-God granted his request.

Men of Recah: Kelub (Shuhah's brother) -> *Mehir -> *Eshton -> *Beth Rapha, *Paseah, & *Tehinnah -> Ir Nahash (that is, the city of Nahash)

Kenaz -> *Othniel, *Seraiah
Othniel -> *Hathath, *Meonothai -> *Ophrah
Seraiah -> *Joab -> Ge Harashim (the valley of craftsmen)

Jephunneh -> *Caleb -> *Naam, *Iru, *Elah -> *Kenaz

Jehallel -> *Ziph, *Ziphah, *Tiria, *Asarel

Ezrah -> *Jalon, *Epher, *Jether, *Mered
Mered: [Bithiah d. of Pharaoh] -> *Miriam, *Shammai, *Ishbah -> *Esthemoa
            [Judean wife] -> *Jered -> *Gedor; *Heber -> *Soco; *Jekuthiel -> *Zanoah

Hodiah's wife (sister of Naham) -> *Keilah the Garmite, *Eshtemoa the Maacathite

Shimon -> *Amnon, *Rinnah, *Ben-Hanon, *Tilon

Ishi -> * Zoheth, Ben-Zoheth

Judah -> *Shelah -> *Er -> *Lecah
                                *Laadah -> *Mareshah, clans of linen workers @ Beth Ashbea
                                *Jokim, men of Cozeba, Joash & Saraph who ruled in Moab & Jashubi Lehem

Potters who live @ Netaim & Gederah - stayed there & worked for the king

Simeon
Verses 24 - 43

Simeon -> *Nemuel, *Jamin, *Jarib, *Zerah, *Shaul
Shaul -> *Shallum -> *Mibsam -> *Mishma -> *Hammuel, *Zaccur, *Shimei -> 16 sons & daughters

-tribe not as numerous as Judah
-lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri, & Shaaraim until David's reign
-surrounding villages: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, Ashan
-villages around these towns as far as Baalath

Leaders of their clans: Meshobab; Jamlech; Joshah* <- Amaziah; Joel; Jehu son of Joshibiah* <- Seraiah* <- Asiel; Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, Ziza* <- Shiphi* <- Allon* <- Jedaiah* <- Shimri* <- Shemaiah
-their families greatly increased
-they went to the outskirts of Gedor to the easternmost part of the valley
  +pasture for their flocks
  +rich, spacious, peaceful
  +some Hamites used to live there
-they arrived in the days of Hezekiah King of Judah
-they attacked the Hamites & Meunites, totally destroying them, then settled in the land
-500 Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, & Uzziel - all sons of Ishi
  +they invaded the hill country of Seir
  +they killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped
  +they live there to this day

Lori's Thoughts:

Jabez asked God to make him more than what his parents made him out to be - a pain.  Enlarging his territory could mean literally giving him more land or dominion.  Or, it could mean, give me more than what this world has offered me; make me more than what I have been allotted.  I (as in Lori) was born to a criminal.  God made me more than a victim and more than a criminal's child.

See, God answers prayers in the affirmative.  Ask Him to make you how He envisions you - more than what the world has to offer.

The Israelites were promised land to settle in, when God delivered them out of Egypt.  This is the account of God making good on His promise to the tribe of Simeon.  They needed to destroy evil first, before they settled in.  This is how things worked before Christ came to save us from sin and its punishment.