1 Chronicles 7–9

Chapter 7

Genealogy from Issachar

¹Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, ¹Puah, ²Jashub and Shimron.

²The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; ^atheir number in the days of David was 22,600.

³The ¹son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were ^achief men.

⁴With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 ¹troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

⁵Their ¹relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.

Descendants of Benjamin

^6aThe sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

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

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

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

¹⁰The ¹son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

¹¹All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ¹ready to go out with the army to war.

¹²¹Shuppim and ²Huppim were the sons of ³Ir; Hushim was the ⁴son of ⁵Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

¹³The sons of Naphtali were ¹Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and ²Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

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

¹⁵Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, ¹whose sister’s name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

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

¹⁷The ¹son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

¹⁸His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and ¹Abiezer and Mahlah.

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

Descendants of Ephraim

^20aThe sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and ¹Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

²¹Zabad 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.

²²Their father Ephraim ^amourned many days, and his relatives ^bcame to comfort him.

²³Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him ¹Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.

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

²⁵Rephah was his son along with Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

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

²⁷¹Non his son and ^aJoshua his son.

^28aTheir possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east ¹Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as ²Ayyah with its towns,

²⁹and 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 ^asons of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher

^30aThe sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

³¹The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

³²Heber ¹became the father of Japhlet, ²Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

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

³⁴The sons of ¹Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

³⁵The ¹sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

³⁶The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

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

³⁸The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

³⁹The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.

⁴⁰All these were the 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.

Chapter 8

Genealogy from Benjamin

¹And ^aBenjamin ¹became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, ^bAharah the third,

²Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth.

³Bela had sons: ¹Addar, Gera, Abihud,

⁴Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,

⁵Gera, Shephuphan and Huram.

⁶These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them into exile to Manahath,

⁷namely, Naaman, Ahijah and Gera—he carried them into exile; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

⁸Shaharaim became the father of children in the ¹country of Moab after he had ²sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.

⁹By Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

¹⁰Jeuz, Sachia, Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.

¹¹By Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

¹²The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

¹³and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;

¹⁴and ¹Ahio, Shashak and Jeremoth.

¹⁵Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,

¹⁶Michael, Ishpah and Joha were the sons of Beriah.

¹⁷Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,

¹⁸Ishmerai, Izliah and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

¹⁹Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,

²⁰Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,

²¹Adaiah, Beraiah and Shimrath were the sons of ¹Shimei.

²²Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,

²³Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,

²⁴Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,

²⁵Iphdeiah and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.

²⁶Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,

²⁷Jaareshiah, Elijah and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.

²⁸These were heads of the fathers’ households according to their generations, chief men ¹who lived in Jerusalem.

^29aNow in Gibeon, Jeiel, the father of Gibeon lived, and his wife’s name was Maacah;

³⁰and his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

³¹Gedor, Ahio and ¹Zecher.

³²Mikloth became the father of ¹Shimeah. And they also lived with their ²relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other relatives.

Genealogy from King Saul

^33aNer became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, ¹Abinadab and ²Eshbaal.

³⁴The son of Jonathan was ¹Merib-baal, and Merib-baal became the father of Micah.

³⁵The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, ¹Tarea and Ahaz.

³⁶Ahaz became the father of ¹Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza.

³⁷Moza became the father of Binea; ¹Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

³⁸Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

³⁹The sons of Eshek his brother were Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second and Eliphelet the third.

⁴⁰The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, 150 of them. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

Chapter 9

People of Jerusalem

¹So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And ^aJudah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.

^2aNow the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites and ^bthe ¹temple servants.

³Some of the sons of Judah, of the sons of Benjamin and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh lived in ^aJerusalem:

⁴Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the ^ason of Judah.

⁵From the Shilonites were Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

⁶From the sons of Zerah were Jeuel and their ¹relatives, 690 of them.

⁷From the sons of Benjamin were Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,

⁸and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

⁹and their relatives according to their generations, ^a956. All these were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.

^10aFrom the priests were Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,

¹¹and ¹Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, ^athe chief officer of the house of God;

¹²and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

¹³and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

^14aOf the Levites were Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

¹⁵and Bakbakkar, Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of ¹Zichri, the son of Asaph,

¹⁶and ¹Obadiah the son of ²Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

¹⁷Now the gatekeepers were ¹Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their relatives (Shallum the chief

¹⁸being stationed until now at ^athe king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

¹⁹Shallum the son of Kore, the son of ¹Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entrance.

^20aPhinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them previously, and the Lord was with him.

^21aZechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the entrance…