1 Chronicles 7:1-27 ▼

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

2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of the house of their fathers, of Tola, mighty men of valor in their generations. In the days of David their number was twenty-two thousand and six hundred.

3 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, and Isshiah—five chiefs, all of them.

4 And with them by their generations according to the houses of their fathers were troops of the host of battle, thirty-six thousand. For they had many wives and sons.

5 And their brothers among all the clans of Issachar were mighty men, eighty-seven thousand in all reckoned.

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

7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri—five heads of a house of fathers, mighty of valor, and reckoned twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

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

9 And they were reckoned according to their generations, heads of a house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand and two hundred.

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

11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of the fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle.

12 And Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and Hushim was son of Aher.

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

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

15 And Machir took a wife of Huppim and of Shuppim, and the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad begat only daughters.

16 And Maacah 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 Rekem.

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

18 And His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19 And the sons of Shemida were: Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

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

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

23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because disaster had come upon his house.

24 And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Beth-horon Lower and Upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

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

26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.