1 Chronicles - 7

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1 O f the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

2 T he sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

3 T he son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

4 W ith them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

5 T heir brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.

6 T he sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

7 T he sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

8 T he sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

9 T hey were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

10 T he son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11 A ll these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

12 S o were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

13 T he sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.

14 T he sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

15 M achir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.

16 M aacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17 T he sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

18 H is sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19 T he sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20 T he sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

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

22 E phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23 H e went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.

24 H is daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

25 R ephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,

26 L adan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27 N un his son, and Joshua his son.

28 T heir possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

29 a nd by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

30 T he sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

31 T he sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

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

33 T he sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

34 T he sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

35 T he sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

36 T he sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

37 B ezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

38 T he sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

39 T he sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

40 A ll these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.