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1 Chronicles Chapter 7
1And as for the sons of Issachar, they were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron – four of them.
2And the sons of Tola were Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Jibsam and Samuel – heads of their paternal house. To Tola valiant warriors were recorded in their genealogies. Their number in David's days was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3And the sons of Uzzi were Izrahiah and his line. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Ishiah – five of them – all heads in rank.
4And alongside them according to their genealogies, according to their paternal house, were the troops of the army for war – thirty-six thousand men – for they had many wives and sons.
5And their brothers according to all the families of Issachar were valiant soldiers – eighty-seven thousand of them in total according to their registration by their genealogy.
6The sons of Benjamin were Bela and Becher and Jediael – three of them.
7And the sons of Bela were Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri – five of them – heads of the paternal house, valiant soldiers – and they were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four in number in their registration by their genealogy.
8And the sons of Becher were Zemira and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jeremoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All those were the sons of Becher.
9And their registration according to their genealogy was as heads of their paternal house – as valiant warriors – twenty thousand two hundred in number.
10And the sons of Jediael were Bilhan and his line. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.
11All those were the sons of Jediael according to the paternal heads – valiant soldiers – seventeen thousand two hundred in number who would go out to battle in the army.
12And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and there was Hushim, of the sons of someone else.
13The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, being the sons of Bilhah.
14The sons of Manasseh were Asriel to whom his wife gave birth. His Aramaean concubine gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.
15And Machir took as wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of his sister was Maachah. And the name of the second son was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
16And Maachah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called him Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.
17And the sons of Ulam were Bedan and his line. Those were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18And his sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.
19And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.
20And the sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son and Tahath his son,
21and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elad, but the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them, because they came down to take their cattle.
22And Ephraim their father mourned for many days, and his brothers came to console him.
23And after he had gone in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son, and he called him Beriah, because it was troublesome in his house.
24And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-Sheerah.
25And Rephah was his son, as were Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
26Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27Non his son and Joshua his son.
28And their estate and place of residence was Beth-El and its satellite villages. And to the east it was Naaran, and to the west it was Gezer and its satellite villages, and Shechem and its satellite villages, as far as Ajah and its satellite villages.
29And next to the sons of Manasseh were Beth-Shean and its satellite villages, Taanach and its satellite villages, Megiddo and its satellite villages, and Dor and its satellite villages. It is in these places that the sons of Joseph the son of Israel lived.
30The sons of Asher were Jimnah and Jishvah and Jishvi and Beriah, and Serah was their sister.
31And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel – he was the father of Birzoth.
32And Heber begot Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua their sister.
33And the sons of Japhlet were Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. Those were the sons of Japhlet.
34And the sons of Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah and Jahbah and Aram.
35And the sons of Helem his brother were Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.
36And the sons of Zophah were Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,
37Bezer and Hod and Shammah and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera.
38And the sons of Jether were Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.
39And the sons of Ulla were Arah and Hanniel and Rizia.
40All of those were the sons of Asher – heads of the paternal house, elite men, valiant soldiers, top ranking leaders – and their genealogical registration was in the army for warfare. They were twenty-six thousand men in number.