Chapter 7
Issachar. 1 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. There were four of them in all.
2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, all leaders of their ancestral clans. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola had twenty-two thousand, six hundred brave warriors in their generations.
3 The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were leaders. 4 According to the generations of their ancestral clans, they had thirty-six thousand warriors, for they had many wives and children. 5 There were eighty-seven thousand brave warriors in all of their genealogies from among the brethren who belonged to the clans of Issachar.
Benjamin. 6 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, and Jediael. There were three of them in all.
7 The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were the five leaders of the ancestral clans. There were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four brave warriors according to their genealogies.
8 The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All of these were the sons of Becher. 9 These are the genealogies of the leaders of the ancestral clans and their twenty thousand, two hundred brave warriors.
10 The son of Jediael was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All of the sons of Jediael were leaders of the brave warriors, of whom there were seventeen thousand, two hundred ready for battle.
12 The Shuppites and the Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushim were descendants of Dan.
13 Naphtali and Manasseh. The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. They were descendants of Bilhah.
14 [a]The descendants of Manasseh included Ashriel who was a descendant of his Aramean concubine. She bore Machir, the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and the Shuppites. His sister’s name was Maacah. Another of his descendants was Zelophehad who only had daughters.
16 Maacah, the wife of Machir, gave birth to a son named Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17 The son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the descendants of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18 His sister was Hammolecheth. She gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20 Ephraim. The descendants of Ephraim were Shuthelah, Bered, his son, Tahath, his son, Eleadah, his son, Tahath, his son, 21 Zabad, his son, and Shuthelah, his son. Ezer and Elead were killed by men born in the land of Gath when they led a raid to take away their cattle. 22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them for a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23 Then he slept with his wife again, and she conceived and bore a son whose name was Beriah because misfortune had visited his family.[b] 24 His daughter was Sheerah. She built upper and lower Beth-horon as well as Uzzen-sheerah.
25 Rephah was his son as well as Resheph. There was 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 Now their possessions and their dwelling places included Bethel and the towns dependent upon it, to the east Naaran, to the west Gezer and the towns dependent upon it, Shechem and the towns dependent upon it, Ayyah and the towns dependent upon it.[c] 29 Near the boundary with Manasseh there were Beth-shean and the towns dependent upon it, Taanach and the towns dependent upon it, Megiddo and the towns dependent upon it, and Dor with its towns. The descendants of Joseph, the son of Israel, dwelt in them.
30 Asher. The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
31 The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.
33 The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the children of Japhlet.
34 The sons of Shomer were Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 The sons of his brother Hotham were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 These were all the descendants of Asher, the leaders of the ancestral clans, the mighty brave warriors, and the main leaders. In their genealogies there were twenty-six thousand warriors ready for battle.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 7:14 Manasseh had contacts with the Arameans (see Gen 31:46f). Machir was the half-tribe that dwelt across the Jordan (see Num 32:39f) and was certainly the older of the two half-tribes (see Jdg 5:14). The Huppites and Shuppites belonged to the tribe of Benjamin, while Jabesh in Gilead, a town in the territory of Manasseh, was allied with the Benjaminites (see Jdg 21:12).
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 The clan of Beriah later became part of Benjamin (see 8:13).
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 Shechem is usually placed in the tribe of Manasseh. In this passage, the Chronicler seems to be giving the name Ephraim to the combined tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.