1 Chronicles: Chapter 7
1. Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub,
and Shimron, four.
2. The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and
Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to
wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the
days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3. The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of
Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief
men.
4. With them, by their generations, after their
fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they
had many wives and sons.
5. Their brothers among all the families of
Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven
thousand.
6. [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and
Jediael, three.
7. The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel,
and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and
they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
8. The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and
Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and
Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9. They were reckoned by genealogy, after their
generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty
thousand two hundred.
10. The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan:
Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and
Ahishahar.
11. All these were sons of Jediael, according to the
heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and
two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war.
12. Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim,
the sons of Aher.
13. The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14. The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine
the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
15. and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim,
whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and
Zelophehad had daughters.
16. Maacah 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.
17. The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of
Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18. His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer,
and Mahlah.
19. The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and
Likhi, and Aniam.
20. The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his
son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
21. and Zabad his son, and 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 away their livestock.
22. Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his
brothers came to comfort him.
23. He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and
bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
24. His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the
lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
25. Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his
son, and Tahan his son,
26. Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27. Nun his son, Joshua his son.
28. Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and
the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it;
Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it;
29. and by the borders of the children of Manasseh,
Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and
its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30. The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi,
and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31. The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was
the father of Birzaith.
32. Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer,
and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33. The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and
Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34. The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah,
and Aram.
35. The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and
Shelesh, and Amal.
36. The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and
Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37. Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and
Ithran, and Beera.
38. The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and
Ara.
39. The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.
40. All these were the children of Asher, heads of the
fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The
number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand
men.