1 Chronicles 7–9

The Descendants of Issachar

7Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

²Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of families of the clan of Tola and were famous soldiers. At the time of King David their descendants numbered 22,600.

³Uzzi had one son, Izrahiah. Izrahiah and his four sons, Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, were all heads of families. ⁴They had so many wives and children that their descendants were able to provide 36,000 men for military service.

⁵The official records of all the families of the tribe of Issachar listed 87,000 men eligible for military service.

The Descendants of Benjamin and Dan

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Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. ⁷Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 22,034 men eligible for military service.

⁸Becher had nine sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Eleoenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. ⁹The official record of their descendants by families listed 20,200 men eligible for military service.

¹⁰Jediael had one son, Bilhan, and Bilhan had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 17,200 men eligible for military service. ¹²Shuppim and Huppim also belonged to this tribe.

Dan had one son, Hushim.^r

The Descendants of Naphtali

¹³Naphtali had four sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. (They were descendants of Bilhah.)^s

The Descendants of Manasseh

¹⁴By his Aramean concubine, Manasseh had two sons, Asriel and Machir. Machir was the father of Gilead. ¹⁵Machir found a wife for Huppim and one for Shuppim. His sister’s name was Maacah. Machir’s second son was Zelophehad, and he had only daughters.

¹⁶Maacah, Machir’s wife, gave birth to two sons, whom they named Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two sons, Ulam and Rakem, ¹⁷and Ulam had a son named Bedan. These are all descendants of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh.

¹⁸Gilead’s sister Hammolecheth had three sons: Ishod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹(Shemida had four sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.)

The Descendants of Ephraim

²⁰These are the descendants of Ephraim from generation to generation: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath, ²¹Zabad, Shuthelah. Ephraim had two other sons besides Shuthelah: Ezer and Elead, who were killed when they tried to steal the livestock belonging to the native inhabitants of Gath. ²²Their father Ephraim mourned for them for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. ²³Then he had intercourse with his wife again, and she became pregnant and had a son. They named him Beriah,^t because of the trouble that had come to their family.

²⁴Ephraim had a daughter named Sheerah. She built the towns of Upper and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah.

²⁵Ephraim also had a son named Rephah, whose descendants were as follows: Resheph, Telah, Tahan, ²⁶Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama, ²⁷Nun, Joshua.

²⁸The territory which they took and settled in included Bethel and the towns round it, as far east as Naaran and as far west as Gezer and the towns round it. It also included the cities of Shechem and Ayyah, and the towns round them.

²⁹The descendants of Manasseh controlled the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the towns round them.

All these are the places where the descendants of Joseph son of Jacob lived.

The Descendants of Asher

³⁰These are the descendants of Asher. He had four sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and one daughter, Serah.

³¹Beriah had two sons, Heber and Malchiel. (Malchiel founded the city of Birzaith.)

³²Heber had three sons: Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham; and one daughter, Shua.

³³Japhlet also had three sons: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath.

³⁴His brother Shomer had three sons: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

³⁵His brother Hotham^u had four sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

³⁶The descendants of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, ³⁷Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

³⁸The descendants of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara, ³⁹and the descendants of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

⁴⁰All these were descendants of Asher. They were heads of families, famous fighting men, outstanding leaders. Asher’s descendants included 26,000 men eligible for military service.

The Descendants of Benjamin

8Benjamin had five sons. In order of age they were Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, ²Nohah, and Rapha.

³The descendants of Bela were Addar, Gera, Abihud, ⁴Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ⁵Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.

^6–7The descendants of Ehud were Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera. They were heads of families that lived in Geba, but which were forced out and went to live in Manahath. Gera, the father of Uzza and Ahihud, led them in this move.

^8–9Shaharaim divorced two wives, Hushim and Baara. Later, when he lived in the country of Moab, he married Hodesh and had seven sons: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, ¹⁰Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. His sons all became heads of families.

¹¹He also had two sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal.

¹²Elpaal had three sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed. It was Shemed who built the cities of Ono and Lod and the surrounding villages.

The Benjaminites in Gath and Aijalon

¹³Beriah and Shema were heads of families that settled in the city of Aijalon and drove out the people who lived in the city of Gath. ¹⁴Beriah’s descendants included Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, ¹⁵Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, ¹⁶Michael, Ishpah, and Joha.

The Benjaminites in Jerusalem

¹⁷Elpaal’s descendants included Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, ¹⁸Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab.

¹⁹Shimei’s descendants included Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, ²⁰Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, ²¹Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath.

²²Shashak’s descendants included Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ²³Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, ²⁴Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, ²⁵Iphdeiah, and Penuel.

²⁶Jeroham’s descendants included Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, ²⁷Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri.

²⁸These were the ancestral heads of families and their principal descendants who lived in Jerusalem.

The Benjaminites in Gibeon and Jerusalem

²⁹Jeiel^v founded the city of Gibeon and settled there. His wife was named Maacah, ³⁰and his eldest son, Abdon. His other sons were Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner,^w Nadab, ³¹Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, ³²and Mikloth, the father of Shimeah. Their descendants lived in Jerusalem near other families of their clan.

The Family of King Saul

³³Ner was the father of Kish, and Kish was the father of King Saul. Saul had four sons: Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.^{x 34}Jonathan was the father of Meribbaal,^y who was the father of Micah.

³⁵Micah had four sons: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. ³⁶Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah, who was the father of three sons: Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri was the father of Moza, ³⁷Moza the father of Binea, Binea of Raphah, Raphah of Eleasah, and Eleasah of Azel.

³⁸Azel had six sons: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. ³⁹Azel’s brother Eshek had three sons: Ulam, Jeush, and Eliphelet.

⁴⁰Ulam’s sons were outstanding soldiers and archers. He had 150 sons and grandsons in all. All those named above were members of the tribe of Benjamin.

The People Who Returned from Captivity

9All the people of Israel were listed according to their families, and this information was recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel.

The people of Judah had been deported to Babylon as punishment for their sins. ^2*The first to return to their property in the cities included Israelite citizens, priests, Levites, and temple workers. ^3*People from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh went to live in Jerusalem.

^4–6There were 690 families of the tribe of Judah who lived in Jerusalem.

The descendants of Judah’s son Perez had as their leader Uthai, the son of Ammihud and grandson of Omri. His other ancestors included Imri and Bani.

The descendants of Judah’s son Shelah had as their leader Asaiah, who was the head of his family. The descendants of Judah’s son Zerah had Jeuel as their leader.

^7–8The following members of the tribe of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem:

Sallu son of Meshullam, who was the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah

Ibneiah son of Jeroham

Elah, the son of Uzzi and grandson of Michri

Meshullam son of Shephatiah, who was the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah ⁹There were 956 families of this tribe living there. All the men named above were heads of families.

The Priests Who Lived in Jerusalem

^10–12The following priests lived in Jerusalem:

Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin

Azariah son of Hilkiah (the chief official in the Temple), whose ancestors included Meshullam, Zadok, Meraioth, and Ahitub

Adaiah son of Jeroham, whose ancestors included Pashhur and Malchijah

Maasai son of Adiel, whose ancestors included Jahzerah, Meshullam, Meshillemith, and Immer

¹³The priests who were heads of families totalled 1,760. They were experts in all the work carried on in the Temple.

The Levites Who Lived in Jerusalem

^14–16The following Levites lived in Jerusalem:

Shemaiah son of Hasshub, whose ancestors included Azrikam and Hashabiah, of the clan of Merari

Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal

Mattaniah son of Mica, whose ancestors included Zichri and Asaph

Obadiah son of Shemaiah, whose ancestors included Galal and Jeduthun

Berechiah, the son of Asa and grandson of Elkanah, who lived in the territory that belonged to the town of Netophah.

The Temple Guards Who Lived in Jerusalem

¹⁷The following temple guards lived in Jerusalem: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman. Shallum was their leader. ¹⁸Down to that time members of their clans had been stationed at the eastern entrance to the King’s Gate.^z Formerly they had stood guard at the gates to the camps of the Levites.

¹⁹Shallum, the son of Kore and grandson of Ebiasaph, together with his fellow-members of the clan of Korah, was responsible for…