1 Chronicles 7:1–16

Issachar’s Descendants

¹Issachar’s four sons were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. ²Tola’s sons were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. These men were heads of the families of Tola. They were soldiers grouped according to their ancestry. In David’s day there were 22,600 of them. ³The five descendants of Uzzi were Izrahiah and Izrahiah’s sons Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All of them were heads ⸤of families⸥. ⁴They had many wives and children. So in addition to these men grouped according to their ancestry and families, there were 36,000 soldiers. ⁵Their relatives (that is, all of Issachar’s families) were fighting men. A total of 87,000 of them was recorded in the genealogy. 

Benjamin’s Descendants

⁶Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. ⁷Bela’s five sons were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families and fighting men. In the genealogy 22,034 of them were recorded. ⁸Becher’s sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. These were all of Becher’s sons. ⁹In the genealogy 22,200 of them were recorded according to their ancestry (the heads of their families and fighting men). ¹⁰Jediael’s son was Bilhan. Bilhan’s sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹All of these men were Jediael’s descendants. They headed families that produced 17,200 fighting men who could go to war. ¹²The Shuppites and Huppites were Ir’s descendants. The Hushites were descendants of someone else. 

Naphtali’s Descendants

¹³Naphtali’s sons were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. They were Bilhah’s grandsons. 

Manasseh’s Descendants Who Lived West of the Jordan River

¹⁴Manasseh’s sons were Asriel and Machir. Their mother was Manasseh’s Aramean concubine.^aMachir was the first to settle Gilead. ¹⁵He married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His wife’s^bname was Maacah. The name of his second son was Zelophehad. Zelophehad had only daughters. ¹⁶Maacah, Machir’s wife, had a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, whose sons were Ulam and Rakem.