1 Chronicles 7 - Legacy Standard Bible

1 Chronicles 7

Sons of Issachar

Now the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah.

And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men.

4 With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons. 5 Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, recorded by genealogy, in all 87,000.

Sons of Benjamin

The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 recorded by genealogy.

The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

9 They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor. 10

The son of Jediael was Bilhan.

And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who went out with the army to war. 12 Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

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

Sons of Manasseh

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

Sons of Ephraim

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

Sons of Asher

The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath.

These were the sons of Japhlet.

The sons of Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, and Imrah,

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them recorded by genealogy for the army in war was 26,000 men.