1 Chronicles 7
1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maacah 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.
17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The 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, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.
24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
25 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Cross-references
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- 1Gen 46:13, Num 26:23–24
- 22Sa 24:1–9, 1Ch 21:1–5, 1Ch 27:23–24, 1Ch 27:1
- 41Ch 12:32
- 6Gen 46:21, 1Ch 8:1–40, 1Ch 7:10–11, Num 26:38–41
- 71Ch 21:1–5, 2Ch 17:17–18
- 10Jdg 3:15–30
- 112Ch 17:13–19
- 121Ch 7:15, Gen 46:21, Num 26:38–39
- 13Num 26:48–49, Gen 30:3–8, Gen 46:24–25, Gen 35:22
- 14Num 32:30–42, Jos 17:1–3, Deu 3:13–15, Jos 13:31, Num 26:29–34, Num 27:1, Gen 50:23, Jdg 5:14
- 15Num 26:33, Num 36:1–12, Num 27:1–11
- 171Sa 12:11
- 18Jdg 8:2, Jdg 6:11, Num 26:30, Jdg 6:34, Jdg 6:24
- 20Num 26:35–36
- 22Job 2:11, Gen 37:34
- 232Sa 23:5
- 24Jos 16:3, Jos 16:5, 2Ch 8:5, 1Ki 9:17, Jos 10:10
- 27Deu 31:23, Num 13:16, Num 27:18, Num 13:8, Exo 24:13, Exo 17:9–14, Exo 32:17, Heb 4:8
- 28Jdg 1:22, 1Ch 6:66–67, Jos 16:2–3, Gen 28:19
- 29Jdg 1:22–29, Rev 16:16, 2Ki 23:29, Zec 12:11, Jos 16:1–10, 2Ki 9:27, 2Ch 35:22, 1Ki 9:15
- 30Gen 46:17, Num 26:44–46
- 402Sa 24:1–9, 1Ch 21:1–5
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Aharah, Ahi, Ahian, Ahishahar, Alameth, Amal, Ammihud, Anathoth, Aniam, Ara, Arah, Aram, Asher, Ashvath, Asriel, Becher, Bedan, Beera, Bela, Benjamin, Bered, Beri, Beriah, Beth-Horon, Beth-Shean, Bezer, Bilhan, Bimhal, Birzavith, Chenaanah, Concubinage, Ehud, Eladah, Elead, Eliezer, Elioenai, Elishama, Ephraim, Ezbon, Ezer, Gaza, Gezer, Gilead, Guni, Hammoleketh, Hanniel, Heber, Helem, Hod, Hotham, Huppim, Hushim, Imna, Imnah, Imrah, Ir, Iri, Ishiah, Ishod, Ishuah, Ishui, Israel, Issachar, Ithran, Izrahiah, Jahmai, Jahzeel, Jahziel, Japhlet, Jashub, Jediael, Jehoshuah, Jehubbah, Jephunneh, Jeriel, Jerimoth, Jether, Jeush, Jezer, Jibsam, Joash, Joel, Joshua, Laadan, Maachah, Mahalah, Malchiel, Megiddo, Michael, Naaran, Naphtali, Obadiah, Omri, Pasach, Peresh, Phuvah, Pispah, Rakem, Rephah, Rephaiah, Resheph, Rezia, Rohgah, Serah, Shamer, Shamma, Shechem, Shelesh, Shemida, Shemuel, Sherah, Sheresh, Shillem, Shilshah, Shimron, Shua, Shual, Shuppim, Shuthelah, Suah, Taanach, Tahan, Tahath, Tarshish, Telah, Tharshish, Tola, Ulam, Ulla, Uzzen-Sherah, Uzzi, Uzziel, Zabad, Zelophehad, Zemira, Zethan, Zophah