1 Chronicles 7

1 Chronicles 7

1Now the sons of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] [were] , Tola [worm] , and Puah [Splendid] , Yashuv [He Will Return] , and Shimron [Watch-Height] , four.

2And the sons of Tola [worm] ; ‘Uzi [strong] , and Refayah [healed of Yehovah] , and Yeri’el [taught by God] , and Yachmai [whom Yehovah guards] , and Yivsam [pleasant] , and Sh’mu’el [His Name is El] , heads of their father’s house, [that is to say] , of Tola [worm] : [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; whose number [was] in the days of David [beloved] two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

3And the sons of ‘Uzi [strong] ; Yizrachyah [Yehoveehah will shine] : and the sons of Yizrachyah [Yehoveehah will shine] ; Mikha’el [Who is Like God?] , and ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] , and Yo’el [Yehovah is God] , Yishiyah [Yehovah will lend] , five: all of them chief men.

4And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, [were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand [men] : for they had many wives and sons.

5And their brethren among all the families of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] [were] valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies eighty and seven thousand.

6[The sons] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] ; Bela [Destruction] , and Bakher [Young Camel] , and Y’dia’el [God makes known] , three.

7And the sons of Bela [Destruction] ; Etzbon [hasting to discern, or I will be enlargement] , and ‘Uzi [strong] , and Uzziel [My Strength is God] , and Yerimot [He is Most High] , and ‘Iri [belonging to a city] , five; heads of the house of [their] fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

8And the sons of Bakher [Young Camel] ; Z’mirah [song] , and Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] , and Eli’ezer [God is help] , and Elyo’eina [unto Yehovah are my eyes] , and ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] , and Yerimot [He is Most High] , and Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] , and ‘Anatot [answers to prayer] , and ‘Almet [covering] . All these [are] the sons of Bakher [Young Camel] .

9And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [was] twenty thousand and two hundred.

10The sons also of Y’dia’el [God makes known] ; Bilhan [their decrepitude] : and the sons of Bilhan [their decrepitude] ; Ye’ush [He hurries to aid] , and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] , and Ehud [I will Give Thanks: I will be Praised] , and Kena’anah [trader] , and Zaitan [olive] , and Tarshish [yellow jasper] , and Achishachar [my brother is dawn] .

11All these the sons of Y’dia’el [God makes known] , by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers] , fit to go out for war [and] battle.

12Shupim [serpents] also, and Hupim [protected] , the children of ‘Ir [belonging to a city] , [and] Hushim [who makes haste] , the sons of Akher [following] .

13The sons of Naftali [My Wrestling] ; Yachtzi’el [God divides] , and Guni [meaning disputed] , and Yitzer [Forming] , and Shalum [retribution] , the sons of Bilhah [troubled] .

14The sons of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] ; Asri’el [I shall be prince of God] , whom she bore ([but] his concubine the Aramiah [exalted] bore Makhir [Sold] the father of Gil’ad [Rocky Region] :

15And Makhir [Sold] took to wife [the sister] of Hupim [protected] and Shupim [serpents] , whose sister’s name [was] Ma’akhah [oppression] ;) and the name of the second [was] Tz’lof’chad [First-Born] : and Tz’lof’chad [First-Born] had daughters.

16And Ma’akhah [oppression] the wife of Makhir [Sold] bore a son, and she called his name Peresh [dung] ; and the name of his brother [was] Sheresh [root] ; and his sons [were] Ulam [their leader] and Rakem [variegation] .

17And the sons of Ulam [their leader] ; B’dan [in judging] . These [were] the sons of Gil’ad [Rocky Region] , the son of Makhir [Sold] , the son of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] .

18And his sister Hammolekhet [the queen] bore Ish-Hod [splendour] [man of majesty] , and Avi-ezer [My Father is Help] , and Machlah [disease] .

19And the sons of Sh’mida [Wise] were, Achyan [brotherly] , and Sh’khem [Shoulder] , and Lik’chi [learning] , and Ani’am [I am the people, or lament of the people] .

20And the sons of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] ; Shutelach [Noise of Breaking] , and Bered [hail] his son, and Tachat [Station] his son, and El’adah [God has adorned] his son, and Tachat [Station] his son,

21And Zavad [he endows] his son, and Shutelach [Noise of Breaking] his son, and ‘Ezer [treasure] , and El’ad [God has testified] , whom the men of Gat [Winepress] [that were] born in [that] land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.

22And Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

23And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name B’ri’i [With a Friend] , because it went evil with his house.

24(And his daughter [was] She’erah [kinswoman] , who built Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the lower, and the upper, and Uzen-She’erah [portion of kinswoman] .)

25And Rephah [was] his son, also Reshef [flame] , and Telach [vigour] his son, and Tachan [Camp] his son,

26La’dan [put in order] his son, Ammihud [People of Magesty] his son, Elishama [My God has Heard] his son,

27Non his son, Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] [Jehovah is Salvation] his son.

28And their possessions and habitations [were] , Beit-El [House of God] and the towns thereof, and eastward Na’aran [juvenile] , and westward Gezer [Portion] , with the towns thereof; Sh’khem [Shoulder] also and the towns thereof, unto ‘Azah [The Stong] and the towns thereof:

29And by the borders of the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] , Beit-Sh’an [House of Ease] and her towns, Ta’anakh [Sandy] and her towns, Megiddo [Place of Crowds] and her towns, Dor [Generation] and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] the son of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

30The sons of Asher [Happy] ; Yimnah [right hand] , and Yishvah [he will resemble] , and Yishvi [he will resemble] , and B’ri’i [With a Friend] , and Serach [the prince breathed] their sister.

31And the sons of B’ri’i [With a Friend] ; Hever [Comrade] , and Malki’el [My King is God] , who [is] the father of Birzayit [in leanness, or choice olive] .

32And Hever [Comrade] begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) Yaflet [he will deliver] , and Shomer [keeper] , and Hotam [seal] , and Bat-Shua [daughter of wealth] their sister.

33And the sons of Yaflet [he will deliver] ; Pasakh [cut off] , and Bimhal [in circumcision] , and ‘Ashvat [sleek] . These [are] the children of Yaflet [he will deliver] .

34And the sons of Shamer [preserved] ; Achi [my brother] , and Rohgah [yelling (loud complaining)] , Yakh’bah [hidden] , and Aram [exalted] .

35And the sons of his brother Helem [smiter] ; Zofach [a pot] , and Yimnah [He will restrain] , and Shelesh [might] , and ‘Amal [labour] .

36The sons of Zofach [a pot] ; Suach [sweeping] , and Harnefer [panting] , and Shu’al [jackal] , and Beri [a well] , and Yimrah [bitterness] ,

37Betzer [Remote Fortress] , and Hod [splendour] , and Shama [obedient] [desert] , and Shilshah [strong] , and Yitran [advantage] , and Be’era [a well] .

38And the sons of Yeter [abundance] ; Y’funeh [He Will Face] , and Pispah [disappearance] , and Ara [lion] .

39And the sons of ‘Ula [yoke] ; Arach [traveller] , and Hani’el [favoured of God] , and Ritzya [delight] .

40All these [were] the children of Asher [Happy] , heads of [their] father’s house, choice [and] mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war [and] to battle [was] twenty and six thousand men.

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