1 Chronicles 7:1-19 ▼

1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.

4 In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.

5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies.

6 The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies.

8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.

9 Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their families—20,200 mighty men of valor.

10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11 All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle.

12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.

14 The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.

15 Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16 Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17 The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

18 His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19 And these were the sons of Shemida: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.