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Issachar’s Descendants

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam,[a] and Samuel.[b] They were leaders of their families.[c] In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records.[d]

The son[e] of Uzzi: Izrahiah.

The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were leaders.

According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons.[f] Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors.[g]

Benjamin’s Descendants

The sons of Benjamin:[h] Bela, Beker, and Jediael—three in all.

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. The five of them were leaders of their families. There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records.

The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records.

10 The son[i] of Jediael: Bilhan.

The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All these were the sons of Jediael. There were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle.

12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.[j]

Naphtali’s Descendants

13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel,[k] Guni, Jezer, and Shallum[l]—sons of Bilhah.

Manasseh’s Descendants

14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine.[m] She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. 15 Now Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites.[n] (His sister’s name was Maacah.)

Zelophehad was Manasseh’s second son;[o] he had only daughters.

16 Maacah, Makir’s wife, gave birth to a son, whom she named Peresh. His brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17 The son[p] of Ulam: Bedan.

These were the sons of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh. 18 His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

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

Ephraim’s Descendants

20 The descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath, 21 his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah (Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath, who were natives of the land, when they went down to steal their cattle. 22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him. 23 He slept with[q] his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim[r] named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family.[s] 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon, as well as Uzzen Sheerah),

25 his[t] son Rephah, his son Resheph,[u] his son Telah, his son Tahan, 26 his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, his son Elishama, 27 his son Nun,[v] and his son Joshua.

28 Their property and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding towns, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its surrounding towns to the west, and Shechem and its surrounding towns as far as Ayyah and its surrounding towns. 29 On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth Shean[w] and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived here.

Asher’s Descendants

30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

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

33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet’s sons.

34 The sons of his brother[x] Shemer:[y] Rohgah, Hubbah,[z] and Aram.

35 The sons of his brother Helem:[aa] Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran,[ab] and Beera.

38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.

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

40 All these were the descendants of Asher. They were the leaders of their families, the most capable men, who were warriors and served as head chiefs. There were 26,000 warriors listed in their genealogical records as capable of doing battle.[ac]

Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 7:3 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
  6. 1 Chronicles 7:4 tn Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.”
  7. 1 Chronicles 7:5 tn Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”
  8. 1 Chronicles 7:6 tc The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but בְּנֵי (bene, “sons of”) has dropped out by haplography (בְּנֵי בִּנְיָמִן, bene binyamin).
  9. 1 Chronicles 7:10 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
  10. 1 Chronicles 7:12 tn The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.
  11. 1 Chronicles 7:13 tn The name “Jahziel” appears as “Jahzeel” in Gen 46:24.
  12. 1 Chronicles 7:13 tc Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49.
  13. 1 Chronicles 7:14 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 1:32.
  14. 1 Chronicles 7:15 tn Some translations treat the terms שֻׁפִּים (shuppim) and חֻפִּים (khuppim) as proper names of individuals (“Huppim” and “Shuppim”), but others consider these forms to be plurals and refer to tribal or clan names.
  15. 1 Chronicles 7:15 tn Heb “and the name of the second was Zelophehad.”
  16. 1 Chronicles 7:17 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
  17. 1 Chronicles 7:23 tn The expression בּוֹא אֶל (boʾ ʾel) means “come to” or “approach,” but is also used as a euphemism for sexual relations.
  18. 1 Chronicles 7:23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ephraim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  19. 1 Chronicles 7:23 tn Heb “because in tragedy there had come to his house.” The preposition prefixed to רָעָה (raʿah) should probably be omitted. The Hebrew noun רָעָה (“tragedy”) should be understood as the subject of the feminine verb form that follows.
  20. 1 Chronicles 7:25 tn The antecedent of the pronoun “his” is not clear. The translation assumes that v. 25 resumes the list of Ephraim’s descendants (see vv. 20-21a) after a lengthy parenthesis (vv. 21b-24).
  21. 1 Chronicles 7:25 tc The Hebrew text has simply “Resheph,” but the phrase “his son” has probably been accidentally omitted, since the names before and after this one include the phrase.
  22. 1 Chronicles 7:27 tn Heb “Non” (so KJV, NASB; cf. Exod 33:11, where the more familiar spelling “Nun” occurs).
  23. 1 Chronicles 7:29 tn “Beth Shean” is a variant spelling of “Beth Shan.”
  24. 1 Chronicles 7:34 tc The Hebrew text has אֲחִי (ʾakhi, “the brother of”), but this should probably be emended to אֲחִיו (ʾakhiv, “his brother”). Cf. v. 35. Most English versions treat this Hebrew word as a proper name (“Ahi”) and list it before “Rohgah.”
  25. 1 Chronicles 7:34 tn Or “Shomer,” cf. v. 32.
  26. 1 Chronicles 7:34 tc “Hubbah” is the marginal reading (Qere); the consonantal text (Kethib) has “Jachbah.”
  27. 1 Chronicles 7:35 tn Or “Hotham,” cf. v. 32.
  28. 1 Chronicles 7:37 tn The name “Ithran” is sometimes understood to be another name for “Jether” (v. 38).
  29. 1 Chronicles 7:40 tn Heb “all these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, selected, warriors, heads of the leaders, and there was listed in the genealogical records in war, in battle, their number, men, 26,000.”

I figli di Issacar furono Tola, Puvah, Jashub e Scimrom, quattro in tutto.

I figli di Tola furono Uzzi, Refaiah, Jeriel Jahmai, Jibsam e Scemuel, capi delle loro case paterne. I figli di Tola furono uomini forti e valorosi nelle loro generazioni; il loro numero, al tempo di Davide, era diventiduemilaseicento.

Il figlio di Uzzi fu Izrahiah. I figli di Izrahiah furono Mikael, Obadiah, Joel e Isciah; essi erano tutti e cinque capi.

Con loro avevano, secondo le loro generazioni e in base alle loro case paterne, schiere pronte a combattere che ammontavano a trentaseimila soldati, perché avevano un gran numero di mogli e figli.

I loro fratelli, appartenenti a tutte le varie famiglie di Issacar e registrati nelle loro genealogie, erano in tutto ottantaseimila uomini forti e valorosi.

I figli di Beniamino furono Belah, Beker e Jediael tre in tutto.

I figli di Belah furono Etsbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth e Iri, cinque capi delle loro case paterne, uomini forti e valorosi, ed erano registrati nelle genealogie in numero di ventiduemilatrentaquattro.

I figli di Beker furono Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth e Alemeth. Tutti questi erano figli di Beker;

essi erano registrati nelle genealogie secondo le loro generazioni, e come capi delle loro case paterne, uomini forti e valorosi, in numero di ventimiladuecento.

10 Il figlio di Jediael fu Bilhan. I figli di Bilhan furono Jeush, Beniamino, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish e Ahishahar.

11 Tutti questi erano figli di Jediael, capi delle loro case paterne, uomini forti e valorosi, in numero didiciassettemiladuecento pronti ad andare in guerra a combattere.

12 Shupim e Huppim furono figli di Ir; Huscim fu figlio di Aher.

13 I figli di Neftali furono Jahtsiel, Guni, Jetser, Shallum, figli di Bilhah.

14 I figli di Manasse furono Asriel, che la sua concubina sira gli partorì assieme a Makir, padre di Galaad;

15 Makir prese una moglie per Huppim e per Shuppim, il nome di sua sorella era Maakah e il nome della seconda Zelofehad; Zelofehad ebbe solo figlie.

16 (Maakah, moglie di Makir, partorì un figlio, al quale pose nome Peresh; suo fratello invece si chiamava Sceresh e i suoi figli Ulam e Rekem.

17 Il figlio di Ulam fu Bedan). Questi furono i figli di Galaad, figlio di Makir, figlio di Manasse.

18 La sua sorella Hammoleketh partorì Ishod, Abiezer e Mahlah.

19 I figli di Scemida furono Ahian, Scekem, Likhi e Aniam.

20 I figli di Efraim furono Shuthelah, il cui figlio fu Bered, il cui figlio fu Tahath il cui figlio fu Eladah, il cui figlio fu Tahath,

21 il cui figlio fu Zabad, i cui figli furono Shuthelah, Ezer e Elead, che furono uccisi dagli uomini di Gath, nativi del paese, perché erano scesi a razziare il loro bestiame.

22 Il loro padre Efraim li pianse per molto tempo e i suoi fratelli vennero a consolarlo.

23 Poi entrò da sua moglie, che concepí e partorí un figlio; ed egli lo chiamò Beriah, perché sulla sua casa era caduta l'avversità.

24 Egli ebbe per figlia Sceerah che edificò Beth-Horon inferiore e superiore e Uzzen-Sceerah.

25 Suo figlio fu Refah, assieme a Rescef di cui fu figlio Telah, di cui fu figlio Tahan,

26 di cui fu figlio Ladan, di cui fu figlio Ammihud, di cui fu figlio Elishama,

27 di cui fu figlio Nun, di cui fu figlio Giosuè.

28 Le loro proprietà e abitazioni furono Bethel, e i suoi villaggi limitrofi: a est Naaran, a ovest Ghezer coni suoi villaggi limitrofi, e Sichem con i suoi villaggi limitrofi fino a Gaza con i suoi villaggi limitrofi.

29 Lungo i confini di Manasse c'erano: Beth-Scean con i suoi villaggi limitrofi, Taanak con i suoi villaggi limitrofi, Meghiddo con i suoi villaggi limitrofi e Dor con i suoi villaggi limitrofi. In queste località abitarono i figli di Giuseppe, figlio d'Israele.

30 I figli di Ascer furono Jimnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah e loro sorella Serah.

31 I figli di Beriah furono Heber e Malkel, che fu il padre di Birzavith.

32 Heber generò Jaflet, Shomer, Hotham e loro sorella Shua.

33 I figli di Jaflet furono Pasak, Bimhal e Ashvath. Questi erano i figli di Jaflet.

34 I figli di Scemer furono Ahi, Rohagah, Jehubbah e Aram.

35 I figli di suo fratello Helem furono Tsofah, Imna, Scelesh e Amal.

36 I figli di Tsofah furono Suah, Harmefer, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

37 Betser, Hod, Shamma, Scilshah, Jithran e Beera.

38 I figli di Jether furono Jefunneh, Pispah e Ara.

39 I figli di Ulla furono Arah, Anniel e Ritsia.

40 Tutti questi furono figli di Ascer, capi delle loro case paterne, uomini scelti, forti e valorosi, capi tra i principi. Essi erano registrati secondo le genealogie nel servizio militare per andare a combattere; il loro numero era di ventiseimila uomini.