1 Chronicles 7

Genealogy from Issachar

1 Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron.

2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; ¹their number in the days of David was 22,600 * * *.

3 The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were ²chief men.

4 With them by their generations according to their fathers' households were 36,000 * * troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

5 Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000 * *.

Descendants of Benjamin

6 ³The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

7 The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. They were heads of fathers' households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 * * * * enrolled by genealogy.

8 The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

9 They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 * * mighty men of valor.

10 The son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 * * * mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.

12 Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah. And 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; and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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

18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.

19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim

20 ⁴The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take their livestock.

22 Their father Ephraim ⁵mourned many days, and his relatives ⁶came to comfort him.

23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named * him Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.

24 His daughter was Sheerah, ⁷who built lower and upper Beth-horon, also Uzzen-sheerah.

25 Rephah was his son along with Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27 Non his son and ⁸Joshua his son.

28 ⁹Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as Ayyah with its towns,

29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the ¹⁰sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher

30 ¹¹The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

31 The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

33 The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

34 The sons of Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

35 The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

38 The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

39 The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.

40 All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 * men.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Samuel 24:1-9
• 2. 1 Chronicles 5:24
• 3. 1 Chronicles 8:1-40
• 4. Numbers 26:35, 36
• 5. Genesis 37:34
• 6. Job 2:11; John 11:19
• 7. Joshua 16:3, 5; 2 Chronicles 8:5
• 8. Exodus 17:9-14; Exodus 24:13
• 9. Joshua 16:2
• 10. Judges 1:22-29
• 11. Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44-46

Footnotes

• [a] In Gen 46:13, "Puvvah;" in Num 26:23, "Puvah"
• [b] In Gen 46:13, "Iob"
• [c] Lit "sons"
• [d] Or "bands"
• [e] Lit "brothers," and so throughout the ch
• [f] Lit "sons"
• [g] Lit "going out"
• [h] In Num 26:39, "Shephupham"
• [i] In Num 26:39, "Hupham"
• [j] In v 7, "Iri"
• [k] Lit "sons"
• [l] In Num 26:38, "Ahiram"
• [m] In Gen 46:24, "Jahzeel"
• [n] In Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49, "Shillem"
• [o] Lit "and his"
• [p] Lit "sons"
• [q] In Num 26:30, "Iezer"
• [r] In Num 26:35, "Becher"
• [s] I.e. on misfortune
• [t] In Ex 33:11, "Nun"
• [u] In Josh 16:7, "Naarah"
• [v] Many mss read "Azzah"
• [w] Lit "begot"
• [x] In v 34, "Shemer"
• [y] In v 32, "Shomer"
• [z] Lit "son"

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.