1Chronicles Chapter 7
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1Chronicles Chapter 7

Descendants of Issachar
1   Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
2   And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and   Jeriel,   and   Jahmai,   and   Ibsam,   and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, namely, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
3   And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five: all of them chief men.
4   And with them, by their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
5   And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, listed in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

Descendants of Benjamin
6   The sons 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 the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor; and were listed by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
8   And  the  sons  of  Becher;  Zemirah,  and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth,   and   Abiah,   and   Anathoth,   and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
9   And the number of them, according to their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
10   The sons also 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, according to the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
12   Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

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

Descendants of Manasseh (West)
14   The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bore: (but his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead:
15   And Machir took as his wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad:  and  Zelophehad  had  only daughters.
16   And Maachah 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.
17   And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of

Manasseh.
18   And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19   And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim
20   And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
21   And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
22   And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
23   And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because tragedy came to his house.
24   (And his daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen- sheerah.)
25   And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
26   Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27   Nun his son, Joshua his son.
28   And  their  possessions  and  habitations were, Beth-el and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, unto Ayyah 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, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher
30   The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31   And  the  sons  of  Beriah;  Heber,  and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzaith.
32   And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33   And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34   And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35   And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36   The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37   Bezer,  and  Hod,  and  Shamma,  and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38   And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
39   And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.
40   All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers’ house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were fit to go to war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.