The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 07
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
hisbrother was Sheresh; andhis 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,
3 7Bezer, 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.