1 Chronicles 7

1 Chronicles 7

1Of the sons of Issachar : Tola , Puah , Jashub , and Shimron , four.

2The sons of Tola : Uzzi , Rephaiah , Jeriel , Jahmai , Ibsam , and Shemuel , heads of their fathers’ houses , of Tola ; mighty men of valour in their generations . Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand and six hundred .

3The son of Uzzi : Izrahiah . The sons of Izrahiah : Michael , Obadiah , Joel , and Isshiah , five ; all of them chief men .

4With 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 .

5Their brothers amongst all the families of Issachar , mighty men of valour , listed in all by genealogy , were eighty-seven thousand.

6The sons of Benjamin : Bela , Becher , and Jediael , three .

7The sons of Bela : Ezbon, Uzzi , Uzziel , Jerimoth , and Iri , five ; heads of fathers’ houses , mighty men of valour ; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand and thirty-four .

8The sons of Becher : Zemirah , Joash , Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri , Jeremoth , Abijah, Anathoth , and Alemeth . All these were the sons of Becher .

9They were listed by genealogy , after their generations , heads of their fathers’ houses , mighty men of valour , twenty thousand and two hundred .

10The son of Jediael : Bilhan . The sons of Bilhan : Jeush , Benjamin , Ehud, Chenaanah , Zethan , Tarshish , and Ahishahar.

11All these were sons of Jediael , according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valour , seventeen thousand and two hundred , who were able to go out in the army for war .

12So were Shuppim , Huppim , the sons of Ir , Hushim , and the sons of Aher.

13The sons of Naphtali : Jahziel , Guni , Jezer , Shallum , and the sons of Bilhah .

14The sons of Manasseh : Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore . She bore Machir the father of Gilead .

15Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim , whose sister’s name was Maacah . The name of the second was Zelophehad ; and Zelophehad had daughters .

16Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son , and she named him Peresh . The name of his brother was Sheresh ; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem .

17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir , the son of Manasseh .

18His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah .

19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem , Likhi , and Aniam.

20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah , Bered his son , Tahath his son , Eleadah his son , Tahath his son ,

21Zabad his son , Shuthelah his son , Ezer , and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed , because they came down to take away their livestock .

22Ephraim their father mourned many days , and his brothers came to comfort him .

23He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son , and he named him Beriah , because there was trouble with his house .[#7:23 “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.]

24His daughter was Sheerah , who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper , and Uzzen Sheerah .

25Rephah was his son , Resheph his son , Telah his son , Tahan his son ,

26Ladan his son , Ammihud his son , Elishama his son ,

27Nun his son , and Joshua his son .

28Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns , and eastward Naaran , and westward Gezer with its towns ; Shechem also and its towns , to Azzah and its towns ;

29and by the borders of the children of Manasseh , Beth Shean and its towns , Taanach and its towns , Megiddo and its towns , and Dor and its towns . The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

30The sons of Asher: Imnah , Ishvah , Ishvi , and Beriah . Serah was their sister.

31The sons of Beriah : Heber and Malchiel , who was the father of Birzaith .

32Heber became the father of Japhlet , Shomer , Hotham , and Shua their sister.

33The sons of Japhlet : Pasach , Bimhal , and Ashvath . These are the children of Japhlet .

34The sons of Shemer : Ahi, Rohgah , Jehubbah , and Aram.

35The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah , Imna , Shelesh , and Amal .

36The sons of Zophah : Suah , Harnepher , Shual , Beri , Imrah ,

37Bezer , Hod , Shamma , Shilshah , Ithran , and Beera.

38The sons of Jether : Jephunneh , Pispa , and Ara.

39The sons of Ulla : Arah, Hanniel , and Rizia .

40All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses , choice and mighty men of valour , chief of the princes . The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men .

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