1 Chronicles 7

1 Chronicles 7:1 Sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron — four.

1 Chronicles 7:2 Sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral houses. During David’s reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as efficient warriors in their family history.

1 Chronicles 7:3 Son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. Sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.

1 Chronicles 7:4 According to the family history of their ancestral houses, they had 36,000 troops of the army along with them, for they had many wives and children.

1 Chronicles 7:5 Their tribesmen, who were efficient warriors belonging to all the clans of Issachar, totalled 87,000 in their genealogies.

1 Chronicles 7:6 Three of Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

1 Chronicles 7:7 Bela’s sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri– five. They were efficient warriors and heads of their ancestral houses; 22,034 were listed in their genealogies.

1 Chronicles 7:8 Becher’s sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.

1 Chronicles 7:9 Their family history was recorded according to the heads of their ancestral houses—20,200 efficient warriors.

1 Chronicles 7:10 Jediael’s son: Bilhan. Bilhan’s sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

1 Chronicles 7:11 All these sons of Jediael listed by family heads were efficient warriors; there were 17,200 who could serve in the army.

1 Chronicles 7:12 Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.

1 Chronicles 7:13 Naphtali’s sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum– Bilhah’s sons.

1 Chronicles 7:14 Manasseh’s sons through his Aramean concubine: Asriel and Machir the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 7:15 Machir took wives from Huppim and Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, but he had only daughters.

1 Chronicles 7:16 Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

1 Chronicles 7:17 Ulam’s son: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 7:18 His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

1 Chronicles 7:19 Shemida’s sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

1 Chronicles 7:20 Ephraim’s sons: Shuthelah, and his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath,

1 Chronicles 7:21 his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah, also Ezer, and Elead. The men of Gath, born in the land, killed them because they went down to raid their cattle.

1 Chronicles 7:22 Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7:23 He slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his home.

1 Chronicles 7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah,

1 Chronicles 7:25 his son Rephah, his son Resheph, his son Telah, his son Tahan,

1 Chronicles 7:26 his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, his son Elishama,

1 Chronicles 7:27 his son Nun, and his son Joshua.

1 Chronicles 7:28 Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its surrounding villages; Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages,

1 Chronicles 7:29 and along the borders of the descendants of Manasseh, Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor with their surrounding villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

1 Chronicles 7:30 Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, with their sister Serah.

1 Chronicles 7:31 Beriah’s sons: Heber, and Malchiel, who fathered Birzaith.

1 Chronicles 7:32 Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, with their sister Shua.

1 Chronicles 7:33 Japhlet’s sons: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet’s sons.

1 Chronicles 7:34 Shemer’s sons: Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.

1 Chronicles 7:35 His brother Helem’s sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

1 Chronicles 7:36 Zophah’s sons: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

1 Chronicles 7:37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

1 Chronicles 7:38 Jether’s sons: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

1 Chronicles 7:39 Ulla’s sons: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

1 Chronicles 7:40 All these were Asher’s descendants. They were the heads of their ancestral families, chosen men, efficient warriors, and chiefs among the generals. The number of men listed in their genealogies for army service was 26,000.