1 Chronicles 7

The Sons of Issachar

1The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron — four. 2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola, mighty warriors through their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah — five, all of them heads. 4With them, by their generations, by their fathers’ houses, were bands ready for war numbering thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons. 5Their kinsmen throughout all the clans of Issachar were mighty warriors; all told, as listed in their genealogy, they numbered eighty-seven thousand.

The Sons of Benjamin

6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael — three. 7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri — five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, listed in the genealogy as twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth — all these were sons of Becher. 9Listed in their genealogy by their generations, the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, numbered twenty thousand two hundred. 10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these were sons of Jediael, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred fit to go out to war and battle. 12And Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir; Hushim was a son of Aher.

The Sons of Naphtali

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

The Sons of Manasseh

14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she also bore Machir, the father of Gilead. 15Machir took wives for Huppim and Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. The name of the second son was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16Maacah, Machir’s wife, bore a son and named him Peresh; the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. 17The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. 18His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

The Sons of Ephraim

20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, 21Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, born in that land, killed, because they had come down to take their livestock. 22Ephraim their father mourned for many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 23Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; he named him Beriah, because there had been trouble in his house. 24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. 25Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 26Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27Nun his son, Joshua his son. 28Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its towns; to the east, Naaran; to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns; 29and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the descendants of Joseph son of Israel.

The Sons of Asher

30The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. 31The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel — he was the father of Birzaith. 32Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, and 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 sons of Asher, heads of their fathers’ houses, chosen men, mighty warriors, chief among the leaders; listed in the genealogy for military service, their number was twenty-six thousand.