Chapter 7
1 Of the sons of Issachar : Tola , Puah , Jashub , and Shimron , four.
2 The sons of Tola : Uzzi , Rephaiah , Jeriel , Jahmai , Ibsam , and Shemuel , heads of their fathers’ houses , of Tola ; mighty men of valour in their generations . Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand and six hundred .
3 The son of Uzzi : Izrahiah . The sons of Izrahiah : Michael , Obadiah , Joel , and Isshiah , five ; all of them chief men .
4 With them , by their generations , after their fathers’ houses , were bands of the army for war , thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons .
5 Their brothers amongst all the families of Issachar , mighty men of valour , listed in all by genealogy , were eighty-seven thousand.
6 The sons of Benjamin : Bela , Becher , and Jediael , three .
7 The sons of Bela : Ezbon, Uzzi , Uzziel , Jerimoth , and Iri , five ; heads of fathers’ houses , mighty men of valour ; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand and thirty-four .
8 The sons of Becher : Zemirah , Joash , Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri , Jeremoth , Abijah, Anathoth , and Alemeth . All these were the sons of Becher .
9 They were listed by genealogy , after their generations , heads of their fathers’ houses , mighty men of valour , twenty thousand and two hundred .
10 The son of Jediael : Bilhan . The sons of Bilhan : Jeush , Benjamin , Ehud, Chenaanah , Zethan , Tarshish , and Ahishahar.
11 All these were sons of Jediael , according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valour , seventeen thousand and two hundred , who were able to go out in the army for war .
12 So were Shuppim , Huppim , the sons of Ir , Hushim , and the sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali : Jahziel , Guni , Jezer , Shallum , and the sons of Bilhah .
14 The sons of Manasseh : Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore . She bore Machir the father of Gilead .
15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim , whose sister’s name was Maacah . The name of the second was Zelophehad ; and Zelophehad had daughters .
16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son , and she named him Peresh . The name of his brother was Sheresh ; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem .
17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir , the son of Manasseh .
18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah .
19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem , Likhi , and Aniam.
20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah , Bered his son , Tahath his son , Eleadah his son , Tahath his son ,
21 Zabad his son , Shuthelah his son , Ezer , and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed , because they came down to take away their livestock .
22 Ephraim their father mourned many days , and his brothers came to comfort him .
23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son , and he named him Beriah , because there was trouble with his house .
24 His daughter was Sheerah , who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper , and Uzzen Sheerah .
25 Rephah was his son , Resheph his son , Telah his son , Tahan his son ,
26 Ladan his son , Ammihud his son , Elishama his son ,
27 Nun his son , and Joshua his son .
28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns , and eastward Naaran , and westward Gezer with its towns ; Shechem also and its towns , to Azzah and its towns ;
29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh , Beth Shean and its towns , Taanach and its towns , Megiddo and its towns , and Dor and its towns . The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
30 The sons of Asher: Imnah , Ishvah , Ishvi , and Beriah . Serah was their sister.
31 The sons of Beriah : Heber and Malchiel , who was the father of Birzaith .
32 Heber became the father of Japhlet , Shomer , Hotham , and Shua their sister.
33 The sons of Japhlet : Pasach , Bimhal , and Ashvath . These are the children of Japhlet .
34 The sons of Shemer : Ahi, Rohgah , Jehubbah , and Aram.
35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah , Imna , Shelesh , and Amal .
36 The sons of Zophah : Suah , Harnepher , Shual , Beri , Imrah ,
37 Bezer , Hod , Shamma , Shilshah , Ithran , and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether : Jephunneh , Pispa , and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla : Arah, Hanniel , and Rizia .
40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses , choice and mighty men of valour , chief of the princes . The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men .