King James Version

1 Chronicles • Chapter 7

1 And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah; Jashub and Shimron, four. 2 And the sons of Tola were Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibzan, and Shemuel; they were heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors of Tola, their genealogies, in the days of David, twenty-two thousand and six hundred. 3 And the sons of Uzziah were Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, and Joel; six heads all together. 4 And to them for their generations, to the houses of their fathers, were groups of the army for battle, thirty-six thousand, for they multiplied men and women. 5 And their brothers for all the families of Issachar, mighty warriors, eighty and seven thousand were counted among them all. 6 Benjamin, Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. 7 And the sons of Bela were Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jeremoth, and Iri; five heads of the house of fathers, mighty men of valor. And they were reckoned at twenty-two thousand and thirty-four. 8 And the sons of Becher were: Zamirah, and Joash, and Eleazar, and Elyoeni, and Amri, and Jeremoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alamet. All these were the sons of Becher. 9 And they were counted to the genealogies of the heads of their fathers, mighty warriors, twenty thousand and two hundred. 10 And the sons of Jediael, Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaana, Zetan, Tarshish, and Ahishachar. 11 All these are the sons of Yediael, the heads of the fathers, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who go out to the army for battle. 12 And they shall be thrust and covered, the sons of the town of Hushim, the sons of another. 13 The sons of Naphtali are Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem, the sons of Bilhah. 14 The descendants of Machir, the son of Manasseh, whose concubine the Aramean bore him, gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead. 15 And Machir took a wife for his son, and the name of his sister was Maachah, and the name of the second was Zelophehad, and they were daughters of Zelophehad. 16 And Maacah, the wife of Machir, bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and his brother's name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17 And the sons of Ulam in Dan, these are the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18 And his sister who is reigning bore him Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah. 19 And the sons of Shmida were Achyan, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniyam. 20 And the sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son. 21 And Zebad, his son, and Shutelach, his son, and Ezer and Elad killed the men of Gath, the inhabitants of the land, because they had come down to take their livestock. 22 And Ephraim mourned many days for his father, and his brothers came to comfort him. 23 And he came to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Brei'ah, for evil had been in his house. 24 And his daughter that he married built the lower Beth Horon and the upper and the Uzzen Sheerah. 25 And Rephah, his son, and Reshef, and Telach, his son, and Tahan, his son. 26 Ladan, his son, Amihud, his son, Elishama, his son. 27 Non son of Joshua. 28 And their possession and their dwellings are in Bethel and its daughters, and to the east Nar'an and to the west Gezer, and its daughters, and Shechem and its daughters, to Aiah and its daughters. 29 And by the hands of the sons of Manasseh of Bethshan and her daughters, Taanach and her daughters, Megiddo and her daughters, Dor and her daughters, in these, the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, settled. 30 The sons of Asher are Jimnah, and Ishwah, and Ishwi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. 31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel; he is the father of Berzavith. 32 And Heber fathered Japheth and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. 33 And the sons of Japheth are Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvat; these are the sons of Japheth. 34 And the sons of Shemer, brother of Rhohgeh, and Rahgah, and Chubbah, and Aram. 35 And the son of Helm, my brother, is Tsophach, and he will restrain, and Shelesh, and Amал. 36 The sons of Zophach: Suach, and Charnefer, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah. 37 Beter and Hod and Shamma and Shilsha and Yitran and Be'era. 38 And the sons of Jether were Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. 39 And the sons of Ulla: Arakh, and Haniel, and Ritza. 40 All these are the sons of Asher, heads of the house of their fathers, chosen mighty men of valor, chief of the princes, and they were enlisted in the army for the war, the number of men being twenty-six thousand.