1 Chronicles 7

₁Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

₂Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of families of the clan of Tola and were famous soldiers. At the time of King David their descendants numbered 22,600.

₃Uzzi had one son, Izrahiah. Izrahiah and his four sons, Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, were all heads of families. ₄They had so many wives and children that their descendants were able to provide 36,000 men for military service.

₅The official records of all the families of the tribe of Issachar listed 87,000 men eligible for military service.

₆Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

₇Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 22,034 men eligible for military service.

₈Becher had nine sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. ₉The official record of their descendants by families listed 20,200 men eligible for military service.

₁₀Jediael had one son, Bilhan, and Bilhan had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ₁₁They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 17,200 men eligible for military service. ₁₂Shuppim and Huppim also belonged to this tribe.

Dan had one son, Hushim.

₁₃Naphtali had four sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. (They were descendants of Bilhah.)

₁₄By his Aramean concubine, Manasseh had two sons, Asriel and Machir. Machir was the father of Gilead. ₁₅Machir found a wife for Huppim and one for Shuppim. His sister's name was Maacah. Machir's second son was Zelophehad, and he had only daughters.

₁₆Maacah, Machir's wife, gave birth to two sons, whom they named Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two sons, Ulam and Rakem, ₁₇and Ulam had a son named Bedan. These are all descendants of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh.

₁₈Gilead's sister Hammolecheth had three sons: Ishod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ₁₉(Shemida had four sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.)

₂₀These are the descendants of Ephraim from generation to generation: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath, ₂₁Zabad, Shuthelah. Ephraim had two other sons besides Shuthelah: Ezer and Elead, who were killed when they tried to steal the livestock belonging to the native inhabitants of Gath. ₂₂Their father Ephraim mourned for them for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. ₂₃Then he had intercourse with his wife again, and she became pregnant and had a son. They named him Beriah, because of the trouble that had come to their family.

₂₄Ephraim had a daughter named Sheerah. She built the towns of Upper and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah.

₂₅Ephraim also had a son named Rephah, whose descendants were as follows: Resheph, Telah, Tahan, ₂₆Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama, ₂₇Nun, Joshua.

₂₈The territory which they took and settled in included Bethel and the towns round it, as far east as Naaran and as far west as Gezer and the towns round it. It also included the cities of Shechem and Ayyah, and the towns round them.

₂₉The descendants of Manasseh controlled the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the towns round them.

All these are the places where the descendants of Joseph son of Jacob lived.

₃₀These are the descendants of Asher. He had four sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and one daughter, Serah.

₃₁Beriah had two sons, Heber and Malchiel. (Malchiel founded the city of Birzaith.)

₃₂Heber had three sons: Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham; and one daughter, Shua.

₃₃Japhlet also had three sons: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath.

₃₄His brother Shomer had three sons: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

₃₅His brother Hotham had four sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

₃₆The descendants of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, ₃₇Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

₃₈The descendants of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara, ₃₉and the descendants of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

₄₀All these were descendants of Asher. They were heads of families, famous fighting men, outstanding leaders. Asher's descendants included 26,000 men eligible for military service.