1 Chronicles 7

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The Descendants of Issachar

¹The sons of Issachar:

Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

²The sons of Tola:

Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

³The son of Uzzi:

Izrahiah.

The sons of Izrahiah:

Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.

⁴In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.

⁵Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies.

The Descendants of Benjamin

⁶The three sons of Benjamin:

Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

⁷The sons of Bela:

Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies.

⁸The sons of Becher:

Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becherʼs sons.

⁹Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their families—20,200 mighty men of valor.

¹⁰The son of Jediael:

Bilhan.

The sons of Bilhan:

Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

¹¹All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle. ¹²The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

The Descendants of Naphtali

¹³The sons of Naphtali:

Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.

The Descendants of Manasseh

¹⁴The descendants of Manasseh:

Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.

¹⁵Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah.

Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

¹⁶Machirʼs wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

¹⁷The son of Ulam:

Bedan.

These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

¹⁸His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

¹⁹And these were the sons of Shemida:

Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

The Descendants of Ephraim

²⁰The descendants of Ephraim:

Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

²¹Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son.

Ezer and Elead were killed by the natives of Gath, because they went down to steal their livestock.

²²Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. ²³And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house. ²⁴His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.

²⁵Additionally, Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son, ²⁶Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷Nun his son, and Joshua his son.

²⁸Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages. ²⁹And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

The Descendants of Asher

³⁰The children of Asher:

Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.

³¹The sons of Beriah:

Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

³²Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.

³³The sons of Japhlet:

Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhletʼs sons.

³⁴The sons of Shemer:

Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.

³⁵The sons of his brother Helem:

Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

³⁶The sons of Zophah:

Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

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

³⁸The sons of Jether:

Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

³⁹The sons of Ulla:

Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

⁴⁰All these were the descendants of Asher—heads of their families, choice and mighty men of valor, and chiefs among the leaders. The number of men fit for battle, recorded in their genealogies, was 26,000.

Footnotes (12)

a v1 Puah is a variant of Puvah; see Genesis 46:13and Numbers 26:23.
b v3 Hebrew sons; also in verses 10 and 17
c v13 Jahziel is a variant of Jahzeel; see Genesis 46:24.
d v13 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew and LXX manuscripts Shillem; see Genesis 46:24and Numbers 26:49.
e v23 Beriah sounds like the Hebrew for tragedy or disaster.
f v25 Some LXX manuscripts; Hebrew does not include his son.
g v27 Or Non
h v28 Ayyah is another name for Gaza; see also LXX.
i v29 Beth-shean is a variant of Beth-shan; see 1 Samuel 31:10and 2 Samuel 21:12.
j v34 Or The sons of his brother Shemer: Rohgah; note that Shemer is a variant of Shomer; see verse 32.
k v35 Helem is possibly another name for Hotham; see verse 32.
l v37 Ithran is possibly a variant of Jether; see verse 38.

1 Chronicles 7

The Descendants of Issacharⓘ

The Descendants of Benjaminⓘ

The Descendants of Naphtaliⓘ

The Descendants of Manassehⓘ

The Descendants of Ephraimⓘ