1 Chronicles 7:1–16

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,