1 Chronicles 7

Genealogy from Issachar

1Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, 1Puah, 2Jashub, and Shimron. 2The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were valiant warriors in their generations. 3Their number in the days of David was 22,600. 3The 4son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were 5chief men. 4And with them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were thirty-six thousand 6troops of the army for war; for they had many wives and sons. 5Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were valiant warriors, registered by genealogy, eighty-seven thousand in all.

Descendants of Benjamin

67Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. 7The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of fathers’ households, valiant warriors, 22,034 registered by genealogy. 8The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 9They were registered by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 valiant warriors. 10The 8son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 valiant warriors who were 9ready to go out with the army to war. 1210Shuppim and 11Huppim were the sons of 12Ir; Hushim was the 13son of 14Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

13The sons of Naphtali were 15Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and 16Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

14The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, to whom his Aramean concubine gave birth; she also gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead. 15Machir took a wife from Huppim and Shuppim, 17whose name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh; the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17The 18son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, 19Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim

2020The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and 21Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, 21Zabad his son, 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 their livestock. 22Their father Ephraim 22mourned for many days, and his relatives 23came to comfort him. 23Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him 24Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house. 24His daughter was Sheerah, 25who built lower and upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah. 25Rephah was his son along with Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son, 26Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 2726Non his son, and 27Joshua his son.

2828Their possessions and dwelling places were Bethel with its towns, and to the east, 29Naaran, and to the west, Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns, as far as 30Ayyah with its towns, 29and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, and Dor with its towns. In these regions lived the 31sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher

3032The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah was their sister. 31The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. 32Heber fathered Japhlet, 33Shomer, and Hotham, and their sister Shua. 33The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. 34The sons of 34Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, and Jehubbah and Aram. 35The 35sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. 36The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. 38The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. 39The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. 40All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice, valiant mighty men, and heads of the leaders. And the number of them registered by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.