1 ChroniclesChapter 7

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¹Issachar's sons were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. There were four in all. ²Tola's sons were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were the heads of their families. In David's time, 22,600 men from Tola's family were counted in the family records. They were brave and mighty warriors. ³Uzzi's son was Izrahiah. Izrahiah's sons were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs. ⁴Their family records show they also had 36,000 soldiers ready for battle. That was because they had many wives and children. ⁵Their relatives from all the families of Issachar were brave and mighty warriors. In all, 87,000 were listed in their family records. ⁶Benjamin had three sons. They were Bela, Becher, and Jediael. ⁷Bela's sons were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of their families. There were five in all. Their family records listed 22,034 brave and mighty warriors. ⁸Becher's sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All of these were Becher's sons. ⁹Their family records were listed by the heads of their families. They had 20,200 brave and mighty warriors. ¹⁰Jediael's son was Bilhan. Bilhan's sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families. They were brave and mighty warriors. They had 17,200 men ready for battle. ¹²The Shuppites and Huppites came from Ir. The Hushites came from Aher. ¹³Naphtali's sons were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. They came from Bilhah. ¹⁴These came from Manasseh. Asriel was born to Manasseh by his concubine from Aram. She also gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead. ¹⁵Machir took a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His sister's name was Maacah. Another man in the family was Zelophehad. He had only daughters. ¹⁶Machir's wife Maacah had a son. She named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh. Sheresh's sons were Ulam and Rekem. ¹⁷Ulam's son was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. ¹⁸His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹Shemida's sons were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. ²⁰Ephraim's family line went to Shuthelah. Shuthelah's son was Bered. Bered's son was Tahath. Tahath's son was Eleadah. Eleadah's son was Tahath. ²¹Tahath's son was Zabad. Zabad's son was Shuthelah. Ezer and Elead went down to steal livestock from the men of Gath, who were born in that land. So the men of Gath killed them. ²²Their father Ephraim mourned for them for many days. His relatives came to comfort him. ²³Then he slept with his wife again. She became pregnant and had a son. Ephraim named him Beriah, because trouble had come upon his family.a ²⁴Ephraim's daughter was Sheerah. She built Lower Beth-horon and Upper Beth-horon. She also built Uzzen-sheerah. ²⁵Rephah was also his son. Rephah's son was Resheph. Resheph's son was Telah. Telah's son was Tahan. ²⁶Tahan's son was Ladan. Ladan's son was Ammihud. Ammihud's son was Elishama. ²⁷Elishama's son was Nun. Nun's son was Joshua. ²⁸Their lands and towns included Bethel and its villages. To the east was Naaran. To the west was Gezer and its villages. They also had Shechem and its villages, as far as Ayyah and its villages. ²⁹Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their villages. The people of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns. ³⁰Asher's children were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. ³¹Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel. Malchiel was the father of Birzaith. ³²Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua. ³³Japhlet's sons were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet's sons. ³⁴Shemer's sons were Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram. ³⁵His brother Helem's sons were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. ³⁶Zophah's sons were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, ³⁷Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. ³⁸Jether's sons were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. ³⁹Ulla's sons were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. ⁴⁰All of these came from Asher. They were heads of their families. They were the best of the brave and mighty men. They were chiefs among the leaders. Their family records listed 26,000 men ready for battle.