Chapter 07 - Genealogy of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Joseph, Asher




1 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.


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.

7 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 valour; 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 valour, 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 valour, 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, 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 that 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 Bethhoron 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 valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy (of them) that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.



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