1 Chronicles 7

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

2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of Tola’s ancestral houses, mighty warriors according to their generations. Their number in the days of David was 22,600.

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

4Along with them, by their generations according to their ancestral houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

5Their relatives belonging to all the clans of Issachar were mighty warriors, eighty-seven thousand in all, enrolled by genealogy.

6Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of ancestral houses, mighty warriors. Their enrollment by genealogy was 22,034.

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

9Their enrollment by genealogy, according to their generations, as heads of their ancestral houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.

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

11All these were the sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their ancestral houses, mighty warriors, 17,200 men ready for military service in war.

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

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

14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

15Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister 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 son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, 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, his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath,

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

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

23Then he slept with his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. He named him Beriah, because disaster had come on his house.

24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah.

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

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

27his son Nun, his son Joshua.

28Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, and Gezer and its villages to the west, Shechem and its villages, as far as Ayyah and its villages;

29and along the borders of the people of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. In these lived the descendants of Joseph son of Israel.

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

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

32Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.

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

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

35The sons of his brother Helem: 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 descendants of Asher, heads of ancestral houses, choice men, mighty warriors, chief among the leaders. Their number, enrolled by genealogy for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.