1 Chronicles Chapter 7
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1 Chronicles 7:1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
1 Chronicles 7:2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600.
1 Chronicles 7:3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men.
1 Chronicles 7:4 And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7:5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.
1 Chronicles 7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
1 Chronicles 7:7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.
1 Chronicles 7:8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles 7:9 And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.
1 Chronicles 7:10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles 7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war.
1 Chronicles 7:12 And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher.
1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles 7:14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 7:15 And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
1 Chronicles 7:16And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
1 Chronicles 7:17 The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 7:18 And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
1 Chronicles 7:19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
1 Chronicles 7:20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
1 Chronicles 7:21 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 raid their livestock.
1 Chronicles 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 7:23 And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.