1 Chronicles 7
1 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.
2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their ancestral families. They were mighty warriors, listed by their clans. In the days of David, their number was 22,600.
3 The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah—five in all, and all of them were chiefs.
4 With them, listed by their clans and ancestral families, were 36,000 troops ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.
5 Their relatives from all the families of Issachar were mighty warriors, 87,000 in all, every one listed in the genealogy.
6 Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael—three.
7 The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five in all, heads of ancestral families and mighty warriors. Those listed in their genealogy numbered 22,034.
8 The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were sons of Becher.
9 Those listed in their genealogy by clan, heads of their ancestral families and mighty warriors, numbered 20,200.
10 The son of Jediael was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these were sons of Jediael, heads of ancestral families and mighty warriors, 17,200 who went out with the army to war.
12 Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir; Hushim were sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah.
14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore. She also bore Machir, the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took wives for Huppim and Shuppim. His sister's name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maacah, Machir's wife, bore a son and named him Peresh. His brother's name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.
17 The son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh.
18 His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah; his son Bered; his son Tahath; his son Eleadah; his son Tahath;
21 his son Zabad; his son Shuthelah; and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, born in the land, killed when they went down to take their livestock.
22 Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. He named him Beriah, because disaster had come upon his household.
24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah.
25 His son Rephah, then Resheph; his son Telah; his son Tahan;
26 his son Ladan; his son Ammihud; his son Elishama;
27 his son Nun; his son Joshua.
28 Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its villages; to the east, Naaran; to the west, Gezer and its villages; and Shechem and its villages, as far as Ayyah and its villages;
29 and alongside the descendants of Manasseh: Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. In these places lived the descendants of Joseph son of Israel.
30 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and their sister was Serah.
31 The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.
33 The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.
34 The sons of Shomer were Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.
35 The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, and Imrah;
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla were Arah, Haniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were descendants of Asher, heads of ancestral families, outstanding men, mighty warriors, leaders among the chiefs. Those listed in the genealogy for the army and for war numbered 26,000 men.
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