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1 Chronicles 7
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1 Chronicles 7
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Sons of Issachar
7 Now the sons of Issachar were
Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four in all.
2 The sons of Tola were
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel. They were heads of their father’s house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3 The son of Uzzi was
Izrahiah,
and the sons of Izrahiah were
Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah, five chiefs in all. 4 With them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were thirty-six thousand troops of war, battle-ready, for they had many wives and sons.
5 Now their brothers from all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, in all eighty-seven thousand registered by genealogy.
Sons of Benjamin
6 Benjamin had
Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three sons in all.
7 The sons of Bela were five:
Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, and registered by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty four in number.
8 The sons of Beker were
Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these are the sons of Beker. 9 Now their registration according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand two hundred.
10 The son of Jediael was
Bilhan,
along with the sons of Bilhan:
Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, numbering seventeen thousand two hundred soldiers, ready to go out to war for battle.
12 And the Shuppites and Huppites were the sons of Ir; the Hushites the sons of Aher.
Sons of Naphtali
13 The sons of Naphtali were
Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, descendants of Bilhah.
Sons of Manasseh
14 The sons of Manasseh were
Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore. She also bore Makir the father of Gilead. 15 Now Makir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maakah.
The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maakah the wife of Makir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. His brother’s name 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 Makir, the son of Manasseh. 18 His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida were
Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
Sons of Ephraim
20 The sons of Ephraim were
Shuthelah, 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 born in that land killed because they came down to take their livestock. 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, so he called his name Beriah, because evil had been in his house 24 (his daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah).
25 Rephah was also his son, as were Resheph,
Telah his son, Tahan his son,
26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son,
Elishama his son, 27 Nun his son,
and Joshua his son.
28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns; 29 also along the borders of the Manassites, Beth Shan and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Sons of Asher
30 Now the children of Asher were
Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
31 The sons of Beriah were
Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.
33 The sons of Japhlet were
Pasak, Bimhal, and Ashvath.
These were the children of Japhlet.
34 The sons of Shomer were
Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, 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, Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether were
Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla were
Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers’ houses, choice men, mighty men of valor, and heads of the leaders. They were registered by their genealogy among the army fit for war. Their number was twenty-six thousand men.
1 Chronicles 7
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1 Chronicles 7
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Issachar’s Descendants
7 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.
2 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]
3 The son[e] of Uzzi: Izrahiah.
The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were leaders.
4 According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons.[f] 5 Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors.[g]
Benjamin’s Descendants
6 The sons of Benjamin:[h] Bela, Beker, and Jediael—three in all.
7 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.
8 The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. 9 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 Chronicles 7:2 tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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).
- 1 Chronicles 7:10 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 tn The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 tn The name “Jahziel” appears as “Jahzeel” in Gen 46:24.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 7:14 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 1:32.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 7:15 tn Heb “and the name of the second was Zelophehad.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:17 tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ephraim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 7:27 tn Heb “Non” (so KJV, NASB; cf. Exod 33:11, where the more familiar spelling “Nun” occurs).
- 1 Chronicles 7:29 tn “Beth Shean” is a variant spelling of “Beth Shan.”
- 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.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:34 tn Or “Shomer,” cf. v. 32.
- 1 Chronicles 7:34 tc “Hubbah” is the marginal reading (Qere); the consonantal text (Kethib) has “Jachbah.”
- 1 Chronicles 7:35 tn Or “Hotham,” cf. v. 32.
- 1 Chronicles 7:37 tn The name “Ithran” is sometimes understood to be another name for “Jether” (v. 38).
- 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.”
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Descendientes de Isacar
7 Los hijos de Isacar fueron cuatro en total:
Tola, Fuvá, Yasub y Simrón.
2 Los hijos de Tola:
Uzi, Refaías, Jeriel, Jamay, Ibsán y Samuel, todos ellos guerreros valientes y jefes de las familias patriarcales de Tola. Según sus registros genealógicos, en el tiempo de David eran veintidós mil seiscientos.
3 El hijo de Uzi fue
Izraías.
Los hijos de Izraías:
Micael, Abdías, Joel e Isías, en total cinco jefes. 4 Tan grande era el número de sus mujeres y niños que, según sus registros genealógicos, contaban con un ejército de treinta y seis mil hombres de guerra.
5 El número total de todos sus parientes de las familias de Isacar ascendía a ochenta y siete mil guerreros valientes.
Descendientes de Benjamín
6 Los hijos de Benjamín fueron:
Bela, Béquer y Jediael, tres en total.
7 Los hijos de Bela fueron:
Esbón, Uzi, Uziel, Jerimot e Irí, cinco en total. Todos ellos eran jefes de las familias patriarcales y guerreros valientes, que sumaban veintidós mil treinta y cuatro.
8 Los hijos de Béquer fueron:
Zemirá, Joás, Eliezer, Elihoenay, Omrí, Jeremot, Abías, Anatot y Alemet. Todos ellos eran hijos de Béquer, 9 jefes de sus familias patriarcales y guerreros valientes. Según sus registros genealógicos, eran veinte mil doscientos.
10 El hijo de Jediael fue
Bilán.
Los hijos de Bilán fueron:
Jeús, Benjamín, Aod, Quenaná, Zetán, Tarsis y Ajisajar. 11 Todos ellos descendían de Jediael. Eran jefes de sus familias patriarcales y guerreros valientes. En total, eran diecisiete mil doscientos hombres aptos para la guerra.
12 Los hijos de Ir fueron Supín y Jupín. Jusín fue el hijo de Ajer.
Descendientes de Neftalí
13 Los hijos de Neftalí fueron:
Yazel, Guní, Jéser y Salún. Estos eran descendientes de Bilhá.
Descendientes de Manasés
14 Los hijos que Manasés tuvo con su concubina[a] aramea fueron
Asriel y Maquir, este último, padre de Galaad. 15 Maquir tomó por esposa a Macá, de la familia de Jupín y Supín. El segundo hijo se llamaba Zelofejad, quien solamente tuvo hijas. 16 Macá, la esposa de Maquir, dio a luz un hijo, al que llamó Peres. Este fue hermano de Seres y padre de Ulán y Requen.
17 El hijo de Ulán fue
Bedán.
Estos fueron los hijos de Galaad, hijo de Maquir, hijo de Manasés.
18 Su hermana Hamoléquet fue la madre de Isod, Abiezer y Majlá.
19 Los hijos de Semidá fueron:
Ahián, Siquén, Liquejí y Anián.
Descendientes de Efraín
20 Estos fueron los descendientes de Efraín en línea directa:
Sutela, Béred,
Tajat, Eladá,
Tajat, 21 Zabad,
Sutela,
Ezer y Elad. Los habitantes de Gat mataron a estos dos últimos porque bajaron a robarles sus ganados. 22 Durante mucho tiempo Efraín guardó luto por sus hijos, y sus parientes llegaron para consolarlo. 23 Luego se unió a su esposa, la cual concibió y dio a luz un hijo, a quien él llamó Beriá por la desgracia[b] que su familia había sufrido. 24 Su hija Será edificó Bet Jorón la de arriba y Bet Jorón la de abajo, y también Uzén Será.
25 Los descendientes de Beriá en línea directa fueron:
Refa, Résef, Télaj, Taján,
26 Ladán, Amiud,
Elisama, 27 Nun
y Josué.
28 Sus posesiones y lugares de residencia fueron Betel con sus aldeas; Narán, al este; Guézer con sus aldeas, al oeste; y Siquén con sus aldeas hasta Aías con sus aldeas. 29 Los descendientes de Manasés tenían en su poder a Betseán, Tanac, Meguido y Dor, con sus respectivas aldeas. En estos lugares se asentaron los descendientes de José, hijo de Israel.
Descendientes de Aser
30 Los hijos de Aser fueron:
Imná, Isvá, Isví, Beriá y Sera, su hermana.
31 Los hijos de Beriá fueron:
Héber y Malquiel, padre de Birzait.
32 Los hijos de Héber fueron:
Jaflet, Somer, Jotán y Suá, su hermana.
33 Los hijos de Jaflet fueron:
Pasac, Bimal y Asvat.
Estos fueron los hijos de Jaflet.
34 Los hijos de Somer fueron:
Ají, Rohegá, Yehubá y Aram.
35 Los hijos de su hermano Hélem fueron:
Zofa, Imná, Seles y Amal.
36 Los hijos de Zofa fueron:
Súaj, Harnéfer, Súal, Berí, Imrá, 37 Béser, Hod, Sama, Silsa, Itrán y Beerá.
38 Los hijos de Jéter fueron:
Jefone, Pispa y Ará.
39 Los hijos de Ula fueron:
Araj, Janiel y Risiyá.
40 Todos ellos fueron descendientes de Aser, jefes de familias patriarcales, hombres selectos, guerreros valientes e importantes. Según sus registros genealógicos eran veintiséis mil hombres, aptos para la guerra.
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