1 Chronicles 7

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.