1 Chronicles 7
1599 Geneva Bible
7 1 The genealogy of Issachar, Benjamin, 13 Naph-tali, 14 Manasseh, 20 Ephraim, 30 and Asher.
1 And the sons of Issachar were Tola and [a]Puah, [b]Jashub, and Shimron, four,
2 And the sons of Tola, Uzzi, and Rephaiah and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads in the households of their fathers. Of Tola were valiant men of war in their generations, [c]whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand, and six hundred.
3 And the son of Uzzi was Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, and Ishiah, [d]five men all princes.
4 And with them in their generations after the household of their fathers were bands of men of war for battle six and thirty thousand: for they had many wives and children.
5 And their [e]brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of war, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
6 ¶ The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Becher, and [f]Jediael, [g]three.
7 And the sons of Bela, Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri five heads of the households of their fathers, valiant men of war, and were reckoned by their genealogies, two and twenty thousand and thirty and four.
8 And the sons of Becher, Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth: all these were the sons of Becher.
9 And they were numbered by their genealogies according to their generations, and the chief of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of war, twenty thousand and two hundred.
10 And the son of Jediael was Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan, Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these were the sons of Jediael, chief of the fathers, valiant men of war seventeen thousand and two hundred, marching in battle array to the war.
12 And Shuppim, and Huppim were the sons of [h]Ir, but Hushim was the son [i]of [j]another.
13 ¶ The sons of Naphtali, Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and [k]Shallum [l]of the sons of Bilhah.
14 The son of Manasseh was Asriel whom she bare unto him, but his concubine of Aram bare Machir the (A)father of Gilead.
15 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah. And the name of the second son was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had had daughters.
16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and called his name [m]Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17 And the son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 And [n]his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 ¶ The sons also of Ephraim were Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and his son Eladah, and Tahath his son,
21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead: and the men of [o]Gath that were born in the land, slew them, because they came down to take away their cattle.
22 Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his [p]brethren came to comfort him.
23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare him a son, and he called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house.
24 And his [q]daughter was Sheerah, which built Beth Horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
25 And Rephah was his [r]son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.
28 And their possessions and their habitations were Bethel, and the villages thereof, and Eastward Naaran, and Westward Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem also and the villages thereof, unto [s]Ayyah, and the villages thereof,
29 And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and her villages, Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In those dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30 ¶ (B)The sons of Asher were Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31 And the sons of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, which is the father of Birzaith.
32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33 And the sons of Japhlet were Pasach, and [t]Bimhal, and Ashvath: these were the children of Japhlet.
34 And the sons of Shemer, Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 And the sons of his brother Helem were Zophah and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah, Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37 Bezer and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Jithran, and Beera.
38 And the sons of Jether, Jephunneh, and Pispah and Ara.
39 And the sons of Ulla, Arah, and Haniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their father’s houses, noble men, valiant men of war and chief princes, and they were reckoned by their genealogies for war and for battle to the number of six and twenty thousand men.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 Or, Punah.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 Who also is called Job, Gen. 46:13.
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 That is, their number was found thus great when David numbered the people, 2 Sam. 24:1.
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 Meaning, the four sons, and the father.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 Or, kinsmen.
- 1 Chronicles 7:6 Called also Ashbel, Gen. 46:21; Num. 26:38.
- 1 Chronicles 7:6 Which were the chief: for else there were seven in all as appeareth, Gen. 46:21.
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 Or, Iri.
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 Meaning, that he was not the son of Benjamin but of Dan, Gen. 46:23.
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 Or, of Aher.
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 Or Shillem, Gen. 46:24.
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 These came of Dan, and Naphtali, which were the sons of Bilhah, Gen. 46:23, 24, 25.
- 1 Chronicles 7:16 Or, Jeezer, Num. 26:30.
- 1 Chronicles 7:18 Meaning, the sister of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 7:21 Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines, slew the Ephraimites.
- 1 Chronicles 7:22 Or, kinsfolk.
- 1 Chronicles 7:24 Or, neice.
- 1 Chronicles 7:25 To wit, of Ephraim.
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 Or, Adaiah.
- 1 Chronicles 7:33 Or, Kimbal.
1 Chronicles 7
Legacy Standard Bible
Sons of Issachar
7 Now the sons of Issachar: Tola, [a]Puah, [b]Jashub, and Shimron, four.
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; (A)their number in the days of David was 22,600.
3 The [c]son of Uzzi was Izrahiah.
And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were (B)chief men.
4 With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 [d]troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons. 5 Their [e]relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, recorded by genealogy, in all 87,000.
Sons of Benjamin
6 (C)The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 recorded 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 recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.
10 The [f]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 went out with the army to war. 12 [g]Shuppim and [h]Huppim were the sons of [i]Ir; Hushim was the [j]son of [k]Aher.
Sons of Naphtali
13 The sons of Naphtali were [l]Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and [m]Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
Sons of Manasseh
14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. 15 Now Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, [n]whose sister’s name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16 And 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 [o]son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18 And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and [p]Abiezer and Mahlah. 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.
Sons of Ephraim
20 (D)The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and [q]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 And their father Ephraim (E)mourned many days, and his relatives (F)came to comfort him. 23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him [r]Beriah, because calamity had come upon his house. 24 And his daughter was Sheerah, and (G)she 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 [s]Non his son and (H)Joshua his son.
28 (I)Now their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east [t]Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as [u]Ayyah with its towns, 29 and along the [v]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 (J)sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Sons of Asher
30 (K)The 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 [w]became the father of Japhlet, [x]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 [y]Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.
35 The [z]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 recorded by genealogy for the army in war was 26,000 men.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 In Gen 46:13, Puvvah; in Num 26:23, Puvah
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 In Gen 46:13, Iob
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 Or bands
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 Lit brothers, so in ch
- 1 Chronicles 7:10 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:39, Shephupham
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:39, Hupham
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In v 7, Iri
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:38, Ahiram
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 In Gen 46:24, Jahzeel
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 In Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49, Shillem
- 1 Chronicles 7:15 Lit and his
- 1 Chronicles 7:17 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:18 In Num 26:30, Iezer
- 1 Chronicles 7:20 In Num 26:35, Becher
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 Lit on misfortune
- 1 Chronicles 7:27 In Ex 33:11, Nun
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 In Josh 16:7, Naarah
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 Many mss Azzah
- 1 Chronicles 7:29 Lit hands
- 1 Chronicles 7:32 Lit begot
- 1 Chronicles 7:32 In v 34, Shemer
- 1 Chronicles 7:34 In v 32, Shomer
- 1 Chronicles 7:35 Lit son
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