First Book of Chronicles 7

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

² Sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, Shemuel, heads of the families of Tola. In the time of David these numbered twenty-two thousand six hundred stout fighting men, grouped according to their kinship.

³ Sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. Sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah. Five chiefs in all,

⁴ answerable for a battle force numbering thirty-six thousand men, grouped according to their kinship and families; for there were many women and children.

⁵ They had kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar, eighty-seven thousand stout fighting men, all belonging to one related group.

⁶ Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Jediael: three.

⁷ Sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri: five, heads of families, stout fighting men, forming a related group of twenty-two thousand and thirty-four men.

⁸ Sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, Alemeth, all these were the sons of Becher;

⁹ the heads of their families, stout fighting men, formed a related group, according to their kinship, of twenty thousand two hundred men.

¹⁰ Sons of Jediael: Bilhan. Sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, Ahishahar.

¹¹ All these sons of Jediael became heads of families, stout fighting men, numbering seventeen thousand two hundred men fit for active service.

¹² Shuppim and Huppim. Sons of Ir: Hushim; his son: Aher.

¹³ Sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum. They were the sons of Bilhah.

¹⁴ Sons of Manasseh: Asriel, born of his Aramaean concubine. She gave birth to Machir, father of Gilead.

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

¹⁶ Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son whom she called Peresh. His brother was called Sheresh and his sons Ulam and Rakem.

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

¹⁸ His sister was Malchath. She gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah.

¹⁹ Shemida had sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi and Aniam.

²⁰ Sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

²¹ Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath killed them because they had come down to raid their cattle.

²² Ephraim their father mourned long for them and his brothers came to comfort him.

²³ Then Ephraim went to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son whom she called Beriah, ‘because’ she said ‘in my house one is in misfortune.'[*a]

²⁴ He had a daughter, Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.

²⁵ Rephah his son, Shuthelah his son, Tahan his son,

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

²⁷ Nun his son, Joshua his son.

²⁸ They had land and settlements in Bethel and its outlying towns, in Naaran to the east, in Gezer and its outlying towns to the west, Shechem and its outlying towns, as far as Ayyah and its outlying towns.

²⁹ Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, Dor, each with its outlying towns, were in the hands of the sons of Manasseh. There lived the sons of Joseph son of Israel.

³⁰ Sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah; their sister Serah.

³¹ Sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. He was the father of Birzaith.

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

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

³⁴ Sons of Shomer his brother: Rohgah, Hubbah and Aram.

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

³⁶ Sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

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

³⁸ Sons of Ithran: Jephunneh, Pispa, Ara.

³⁹ Sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, Rizia.

⁴⁰ All these were sons of Asher, heads of families, stout fighting men; when numbered, they formed a related group of twenty-six thousand men for active service.