1 Chronicles 7:1–16

The Family of Issachar

7The sons of Issachar were ^aTola, ¹Puah, ²Jashub, and Shimron—four in all. ²The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; ^btheir number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. ³The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah. All five of them were chief men. ⁴And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were thirty-six thousand troops ready for war; for they had many wives and sons.

⁵Now their brethren among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, listed by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand in all.

The Family of Benjamin

⁶The sons of ^cBenjamin were Bela, Becher, and Jediael—three in all. ⁷The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five in all. They were heads of their fathers’ houses, and they were listed by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty men of valor.

⁸The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jerimoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these are the sons of Becher. ⁹And they were recorded by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty men of valor. ¹⁰The son of Jediael was Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

¹¹All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers’ houses; there were seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle. ¹²³Shuppim and ⁴Huppim were the sons of ⁵Ir, and Hushim was the son of ⁶Aher.

The Family of Naphtali

¹³The ^dsons of Naphtali were ⁷Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and ⁸Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

The Family of Manasseh (West)

¹⁴The ^edescendants of Manasseh: his Syrian concubine bore him ^fMachir the father of Gilead, the father of Asriel. ¹⁵Machir took as his wife the sister of ⁹Huppim and ¹Shuppim, whose name was Maachah. The name of Gilead’s ²grandson was ^gZelophehad, but Zelophehad begot only daughters. ¹⁶(Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.