1 Chronicles 7

Genealogy from Issachar

1 Now the sons of Issacharwerefour: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron.

2 The sons of TolawereUzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households.The sonsof Tolaweremighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

3 The son of UzziwasIzrahiah. And the sons of IzrahiahwereMichael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of themwerechief men.

4 With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

5 Their relatives among all the families of Issacharweremighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.

Descendants of Benjamin

6 The sons ofBenjaminwerethree: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

7 The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. Theywereheads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 enrolled by genealogy.

8 The sons of BecherwereZemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All thesewerethe sons of Becher.

9 They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

10 The son of JediaelwasBilhan. And the sons of BilhanwereJeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

11 All theseweresons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.

12 Shuppim and Huppimwerethe sons of Ir; Hushimwasthe son of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

13 The sons of NaphtaliwereJahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

14 The sons of ManassehwereAsriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brotherwasSheresh, and his sonswereUlam and Rakem.

17 The son of UlamwasBedan. Thesewerethe sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.

19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim

20 The sons of EphraimwereShuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take their livestock.

22 Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.

24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth-horon, also Uzzen-sheerah.

25 Rephah was his sonalongwith Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27 Non his son and Joshua his son.

28 Their possessions and settlementswereBethel with its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as Ayyah with its towns,

29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher

30 The sons of AsherwereImnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

31 The sons of BeriahwereHeber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

33 The sons of JaphletwerePasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

34 The sons of ShemerwereAhi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

35 The sons of his brother HelemwereZophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

36 The sons of ZophahwereSuah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

38 The sons of JetherwereJephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

39 The sons of UllawereArah, Hanniel and Rizia.

40 All thesewerethe sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.

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