1 Chronicles
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- The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub
and Shimron--four in all.
- The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel,
Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel -- heads of their families. During the reign of David,
the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered
22,600.
- The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah:
Michael, Obadiah, Joel and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.
- According to their family genealogy, they
had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.
- The relatives who were fighting men belonging
to all the clans of Issachar, as listed in their genealogy, were 87,000 in
all.
- Three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker and
Jediael.
- The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth
and Iri, heads of families -- five in all. Their genealogical record listed
22,034 fighting men.
- The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer,
Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the
sons of Beker.
- Their genealogical record listed the heads
of families and 20,200 fighting men.
- The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of
Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.
- All these sons of Jediael were heads of
families. There were 17,200 fighting men ready to go out to war.
- The Shuppites and Huppites were the descendants
of Ir, and the Hushites the descendants of Aher.
- The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer
and Shillem -- the descendants of Bilhah.
- The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel was
his descendant through his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Makir the
father of Gilead.
- Makir took a wife from among the Huppites
and Shuppites. His sister's name was Maacah. Another descendant was named
Zelophehad, who had only daughters.
- Makir's wife Maacah gave birth to a son
and named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam
and Rakem.
- The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons
of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh.
- His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod,
Abiezer and Mahlah.
- The sons of Shemida were: Ahian, Shechem,
Likhi and Aniam.
- The descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered
his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
- Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son. Ezer
and Elead were killed by the native-born men of Gath, when they went down
to seize their livestock.
- Their father Ephraim mourned for them many
days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
- Then he lay with his wife again, and she
became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there
had been misfortune in his family.
- His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower
and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah.
- Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah
his son, Tahan his son,
- Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama
his son,
- Nun his son and Joshua his son.
- Their lands and settlements included Bethel
and its surrounding villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to
the west, and Shechem and its villages all the way to Ayyah and its villages.
- Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth
Shan, Taanach, Megiddo and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants
of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
- The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi
and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.
- The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who
was the father of Birzaith.
- Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer
and Hotham and of their sister Shua.
- The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal and
Ashvath. These were Japhlet's sons.
- The sons of Shomer: Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah
and Aram.
- The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna,
Shelesh and Amal.
- The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual,
Beri, Imrah,
- Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and
Beera.
- The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah and
Ara.
- The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.
- All these were descendants of Asher -- heads
of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number
of men ready for battle, as listed in their genealogy, was 26,000.
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