1 Chronicles 7
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- 1Issachar had 4 sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
- 2Tola's sons were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of their family clans and mighty warriors. By the time of David, their descendants numbered 22,600.
- 3Uzzi's son was Izrahiah. Izrahiah had 5 sons: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah — all of them leaders.
- 4According to their family records, these clans could field 36,000 soldiers ready for war, because they had many wives and sons.
- 5Across all the clans of Issachar, their relatives who were registered in the genealogies as mighty warriors totaled 87,000.
- 6Benjamin had 3 sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
- 7Bela had 5 sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of their family clans and mighty warriors. Their genealogical records listed 22,034 men.
- 8Becher's sons were Zemira, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jerimoth, Abiah, Anathoth, and Alameth. All of these were Becher's sons.
- 9Their genealogical records listed 20,200 men who were heads of their family clans and mighty warriors.
- 10Jediael's son was Bilhan. Bilhan's sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
- 11All of these descendants of Jediael were heads of their family clans and mighty warriors — 17,200 soldiers ready to march into battle.
- 12Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and Hushim was a son of Aher.
- 13Naphtali's sons were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum — descendants of Bilhah.
- 14The sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom she bore. But his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead.
- 15Machir took as wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah. The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
- 16Machir's wife Maachah gave birth to a son and named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and Sheresh's sons were Ulam and Rakem.
- 17Ulam's son was Bedan. These were the descendants of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh.
- 18Gilead's sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishod, Abiezer, and Mahalah.
- 19Shemidah's sons were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
- 20The descendants of Ephraim traced through this line: Shuthelah, then his son Bered, then Tahath, then Eladah, then Tahath,
- 21then Zabad, then Shuthelah. Ephraim also had sons named Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who were born in that land, killed because they came down to take away their cattle.
- 22Their father Ephraim grieved for many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
- 23Afterward he slept with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named the boy Beriah, because things had gone badly with his household.
- 24His daughter was Sherah, who built Lower Beth Horon, Upper Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sherah.
- 25His descendants continued through Rephah, then Resheph, then Telah, then Tahan,
- 26then Laadan, then Ammihud, then Elishama,
- 27Nun his son, Joshua his son,
- 28Their lands and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding towns, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its towns to the west, and Shechem and its towns, extending to Gaza and its towns.
- 29Along the border with Manasseh, they also held Beth Shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, each with its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in all these places.
- 30Asher's sons were Imnah, Isuah, Ishuai, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.
- 31Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel. Malchiel was the father of Birzavith.
- 32Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, along with their sister Shua.
- 33Japhlet's sons were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet's descendants.
- 34Shamer's sons were Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
- 35His brother Helem's sons were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
- 36Zophah's sons were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
- 37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
- 38Jether's sons were Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.
- 39Ulla's sons were Arah, Haniel, and Rezia.
- 40All of these were descendants of Asher — heads of their family clans, outstanding and mighty warriors, and leading princes. Their genealogical records listed 26,000 men fit for military service.