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1 Chronicles 7:1-40 — Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Asher

1Chr.7.1-40

¹The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ²The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty men of valor according to their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. ³The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them were heads. ⁴And with them, according to their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons. ⁵And their brothers among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor; enrolled by genealogy in all, they were eighty-seven thousand. ⁶The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three. ⁷The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were enrolled by genealogy, twenty-two thousand thirty-four. ⁸The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. ⁹And they were enrolled by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. ¹⁰The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹All these were the sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war. ¹²And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and Hushim the sons of Aher. ¹³The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. ¹⁴The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. ¹⁵And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim, and his sister's name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. ¹⁸And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. ²⁰The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, ²¹and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them, because they came down to take their livestock. ²²And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. ²³And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah , because tragedy had come upon his house. ²⁴And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. ²⁵And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, ²⁶Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷Nun his son, Joshua his son. ²⁸And their possessions and their settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns; ²⁹and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. ³⁰The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. ³¹And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. ³²And Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. ³³And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. ³⁴And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram. ³⁵And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. ³⁶The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, and Imrah, ³⁷Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. ³⁸And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. ³⁹And the sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. ⁴⁰All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, chosen mighty men of valor, chief of the leaders. And they were enrolled by genealogy in the army for war; their number of men was twenty-six thousand.

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4/11/2026

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