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I Chronicles
Chapter 7
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Now the sons of Issachar were,
Tola,
and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
2
And the sons of Tola;
Uzzi,
and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai,
and
Jibsam, and Shemuel,
heads
of their father's house, to wit, of Tola.
They
were valiant men of might in their generations;
whose
number was in the days of David
two
and twenty thousand and six hundred.
3
And the sons of Uzzi;
Izrahiah.
And
the sons of Izrahiah;
Michael,
and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah . . .
five
. . . all of them chief men.
{meaning Izrahiah and his four sons
were all 'chief men'}
4
And with them, by their generations,
after
the house of their fathers,
were
bands of soldiers for war,
six
and thirty thousand men . . .
for
they had many wives and sons.
5
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar
were
valiant men of might,
reckoned
in all by their genealogies
fourscore
and seven thousand.
6
The sons of Benjamin;
Bela,
and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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And the sons of Bela;
Ezbon,
and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five.
Heads
of the house of their fathers,
mighty
men of valor;
and
were reckoned by their genealogies
twenty
and two thousand and thirty and four.
8
And the sons of Becher;
Zemira,
and Joash, and Eliezer,
and
Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth,
and
Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth.
All
these are the sons of Becher.
9
And the number of them,
after
their genealogy by their generations,
heads
of the house of their fathers,
mighty
men of valor,
was
twenty thousand and two hundred.
10
The sons also of Jediael;
Bilhan.
And
the sons of Bilhan;
Jeush,
and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah,
and
Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11
All these the sons of Jediael,
by
the heads of their fathers,
mighty
men of valor,
were
seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers,
fit
to go out for war and battle.
12
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,
and
Hushim, the sons of Aher.
13
The sons of Naphtali;
Jahziel,
and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,
the
sons of Bilhah.
14
The sons of Manasseh;
Ashriel,
whom she bare . . .
(but
his concubine the Aramitess
bare
Machir the father of Gilead).
15
And Machir took to wife
the
sister of Huppim and Shuppim,
whose
sister's name was Maachah.
And
the name of the second was Zelophehad.
And
Zelophehad had daughters.
16
And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son,
and
she called his name Peresh;
and
the name of his brother was Sheresh;
and
his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17
And the sons of Ulam;
Bedan.
These
were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir,
the
son of Manasseh.
18
And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod,
and
Abiezer,
{mentioned
in Judges 6:11}
and
Mahalah.
19
And the sons of Shemidah were,
Ahian,
and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20
And the sons of Ephraim;
Shuthelah,
and Bered his son, and Tahath his son,
and
Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21
and
Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son,
and
Ezer, and Elead,
whom
the men of Gath
who
were born in that land slew,
because
they came down to take away their cattle.
22
And Ephraim their father mourned many days,
and
his brethren came to comfort him.
23
And when he went in to his wife, she conceived,
and
bare a son, and he called his name Beriah,
because
it went evil with his house . . . 24
(and
his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-Horon
the
nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
25
And Rephah was his son,
also
Resheph,
and
Telah his son,
and
Tahan his son, 26
Laadan
his son,
Ammihud
his son,
Elishama
his son, 27
Non
his son,
Jehoshuah
his son.
28
And their possessions and habitations were,
Bethel
and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran,
and
westward Gezer, with the towns thereof;
Shechem
also and the towns thereof,
unto
Gaza and the towns thereof.
29
And by the borders of the children of Manasseh,
Bethshean
and her towns,
Taanach
and her towns,
Megiddo
and her towns,
Dor
and her towns.
In
these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30
The sons of Asher;
Imnah,
and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31
And the sons of Beriah;
Heber,
and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
32
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33
And the sons of Japhlet;
Pasach,
and Bimhal, and Ashvath.
These
are the children of Japhlet.
34
And the sons of Shamer;
Ahi,
and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35
And the sons of his brother Helem;
Zophah,
and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36
The sons of Zophah;
Suah,
and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, 37
Bezer,
and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38
And the sons of Jether;
Jephunneh,
and Pispah, and Ara.
39
And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
40
All these were the children of Asher,
heads
of their father's house,
choice
and mighty men of valor,
chief
of the princes.
And
the number throughout the genealogy
of
those who were apt to the war
and
to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
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