chapter: 7
Verse 1
Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
Verse 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.
Verse 3
The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
Verse 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.
Verse 5
Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
Verse 6
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
Verse 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.
Verse 8
The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
Verse 9
They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
Verse 10
The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
Verse 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.
Verse 12
So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
Verse 13
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
Verse 14
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 17
The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
Verse 18
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
Verse 19
The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
Verse 20
The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
Verse 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.
Verse 22
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Verse 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.
Verse 24
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
Verse 25
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
Verse 26
Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
Verse 27
Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
Verse 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;
Verse 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.
Verse 30
The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
Verse 31
The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
Verse 32
Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
Verse 33
The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
Verse 34
The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
Verse 35
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
Verse 36
The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
Verse 37
Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
Verse 38
The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
Verse 39
The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
Verse 40