1 Chronicles 7

Issachar's Descendants

1 Issachar's sons:[a] Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron-four.
2 Tola's sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral houses. During David's reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as warriors in their genealogies.
3 Uzzi's son: Izrahiah. Izrahiah's sons: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.
4 Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the genealogical records of their ancestral houses, for they had many wives and children.
5 Their tribesmen who were warriors belonging to all the families of Issachar totalled 87,000 in their genealogies.

Benjamin's Descendants

6 Three of Benjamin's [sons]: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
7 Bela's sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri-five. They were warriors and heads of their ancestral houses; 22,034 were listed in their genealogies.
8 Becher's sons: 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 ancestral houses-20,200 warriors.
10 Jediael's son: Bilhan. Bilhan's sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these sons of Jediael listed by heads of families were warriors; there were 17,200 who could serve in the army.
12 Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.[b]

Naphtali's Descendants

13 Naphtali's sons:[c] Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum-Bilhah's sons.

Manasseh's Descendants

14 Manasseh's sons through his Aramean concubine: Asriel and Machir the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took wives from Huppim and Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, but he 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 Ulam's son: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh.
18 His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 Shemida's sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.[d]

Ephraim's Descendants

20 Ephraim's sons: Shuthelah, and his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath,
21 his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah, Ezer, and Elead.[e] The men of Gath who were born in the land killed Ezer and Elead because they went down to raid their cattle.
22 Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.
23 He slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his home.[f]
24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah,
25 his son Rephah, his son Resheph, his son Telah, his son Tahan,
26 his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, his son Elishama,
27 his son Nun, and his son Joshua.
28 Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its villages; Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages,
29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Asher's Descendants

30 Asher's sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, with their sister Serah.
31 Beriah's sons: Heber, and Malchiel, who fathered Birzaith.[g]
32 Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, with their sister Shua.
33 Japhlet's sons: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet's sons.
34 Shemer's sons: Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.
35 His brother Helem's sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 Zophah's sons: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 Jether's sons: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
39 Ulla's sons: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were Asher's sons. They were the heads of their ancestral houses, chosen men, warriors, and chiefs among the leaders. The number of men listed in their genealogies for military service was 26,000.

1 Chronicles 7 Commentary

Chapter 7

Genealogies.

- Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, ( Judges 18 ) and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, ( Revelation 7 ) . Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.

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Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 7

In this chapter are given the genealogies of the tribes of Issachar, 1Ch 7:1-5 of Benjamin, 1Ch 7:6-12 Naphtali, 1Ch 7:13, of Manasseh, 1Ch 7:14-19 of Ephraim, 1Ch 7:20-29 and of Asher, 1Ch 7:30-40, even of the chief men of them; and their numbers are reckoned as in the times of David. The tribes of Dan and Zebulun are omitted.

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