1 Chronicles 7

¹The sons of Isʹsachar: Tola, Puʹah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ²The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaʹiah, Jeʹri-el, Jahʹmai, Ibsam, and Shemuʹel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred. ³The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiʹah. And the sons of Izrahiʹah: Michael, Obadiʹah, Joʹel, and Isshiʹah, five, all of them chief men; ⁴and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons. ⁵Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Isʹsachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

⁶The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediʹa-el, three. ⁷The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzʹziel, Jerʹimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four. ⁸The sons of Becher: Zemiʹrah, Joʹash, Elieʹzer, Eli-o-eʹnai, Omri, Jerʹemoth, Abiʹjah, Anʹathoth, and Alʹemeth. All these were the sons of Becher; ⁹and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred. ¹⁰The sons of Jediʹa-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeʹush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaʹanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishʹahar. ¹¹All these were the sons of Jediʹa-el according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war. ¹²And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.

¹³The sons of Naphʹtali: Jahʹzi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.

¹⁴The sons of Manasʹseh: Asʹri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. ¹⁵And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maʹacah. And the name of the second was Zeloʹphehad; and Zeloʹphehad had daughters. ¹⁶And Maʹacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and 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, son of Manasʹseh. ¹⁸And his sister Hammoʹlecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-eʹzer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹The sons of Shemiʹda were Ahiʹan, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniʹam.

²⁰The sons of Eʹphraim: Shutheʹlah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-aʹdah his son, Tahath his son, ²¹Zabad his son, Shutheʹlah his son, and Ezer and Eʹle-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle. ²²And Eʹphraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. ²³And Eʹphraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beriʹah, because evil had befallen his house. ²⁴His daughter was Sheʹerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horʹon, and Uzʹzen-sheʹerah. ²⁵Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son, ²⁶Ladan his son, Ammiʹhud his son, Elishʹama his son, ²⁷Nun his son, Joshua his son. ²⁸Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naʹaran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns; ²⁹also along the borders of the Manasʹsites, Beth-sheʹan and its towns, Taʹanach and its towns, Megidʹdo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

³⁰The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriʹah, and their sister Serah. ³¹The sons of Beriʹah: Heber and Malʹchi-el, who was the father of Birʹzaith. ³²Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shuʹa. ³³The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. ³⁴The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehubʹbah, and Aram. ³⁵The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. ³⁶The sons of Zophah: Suʹah, Harʹnepher, Shuʹal, Beri, Imrah. ³⁷Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-eʹra. ³⁸The sons of Jether: Jephunʹneh, Pispa, and Ara. ³⁹The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanʹniel, and Riziʹa. ⁴⁰All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers’ houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.