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1 Chronicles 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

1Ch 7:1The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Pu'ah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
1Ch 7:2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephai'ah, Je'ri-el, Jah'mai, Ibsam, and Shem'uel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.
1Ch 7:3The sons of Uzzi: Izrahi'ah. And the sons of Izrahi'ah: Michael, Obadi'ah, Jo'el, and Isshi'ah, five, all of them chief men;
1Ch 7:4and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
1Ch 7:5Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

Descendants of Benjamin

1Ch 7:6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.
1Ch 7:7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uz'ziel, Jer'imoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
1Ch 7:8The sons of Becher: Zemi'rah, Jo'ash, Elie'zer, Eli-o-e'nai, Omri, Jer'emoth, Abi'jah, An'athoth, and Al'emeth. All these were the sons of Becher;
1Ch 7:9and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
1Ch 7:10The sons of Jedi'a-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Je'ush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chena'anah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahish'ahar.
1Ch 7:11All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.
1Ch 7:12And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

1Ch 7:13The sons of Naph'tali: Jah'zi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

1Ch 7:14The sons of Manas'seh: As'ri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
1Ch 7:15And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Ma'acah. And the name of the second was Zeloph'ehad; and Zeloph'ehad had daughters.
1Ch 7:16And Ma'acah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
1Ch 7:17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manas'seh.
1Ch 7:18And his sister Hammo'lecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-e'zer, and Mahlah.
1Ch 7:19The sons of Shemi'da were Ahi'an, Shechem, Likhi, and Ani'am.

Descendants of Ephraim

1Ch 7:20The sons of E'phraim: Shuthe'lah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-a'dah his son, Tahath his son,
1Ch 7:21Zabad his son, Shuthe'lah his son, and Ezer and E'le-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.
1Ch 7:22And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1Ch 7:23And E'phraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beri'ah, because evil had befallen his house.
1Ch 7:24His daughter was She'erah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-hor'on, and Uz'zen-she'erah.
1Ch 7:25Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
1Ch 7:26Ladan his son, Ammi'hud his son, Eli'shama his son,
1Ch 7:27Nun his son, Joshua his son.
1Ch 7:28Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Na'aran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;
1Ch 7:29also along the borders of the Manas'sites, Beth-she'an and its towns, Ta'anach and its towns, Megid'do and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

Descendants of Asher

1Ch 7:30The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.
1Ch 7:31The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith.
1Ch 7:32Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a.
1Ch 7:33The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.
1Ch 7:34The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehub'bah, and Aram.
1Ch 7:35The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
1Ch 7:36The sons of Zophah: Su'ah, Har'nepher, Shu'al, Beri, Imrah,
1Ch 7:37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-e'ra.
1Ch 7:38The sons of Jether: Jephun'neh, Pispa, and Ara.
1Ch 7:39The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a.
1Ch 7:40All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.
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