Descendants of Other Tribes

7 The sons of Issachar:

Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron—four.

² The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their clans. The descendants of Tola were mighty men of valor; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

³ The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah:

Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah—all five of them were leaders.

⁴ Along with them, by their generations after their clans were 36,000 troops of the army for battle, for they had many wives and sons. ⁵ Their kinsmen among all the families of Issachar by genealogical records were mighty men of valor—87,700.

⁶ The sons of Benjamin:

Bela, Becher and Jediael—three.

⁷ The sons of Bela:

Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri—five. They were heads of clans, mighty men of valor; by genealogical records they were 22,034.

⁸ The sons of Becher:

Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth—all sons of Becher. ⁹ According to their genealogical records, their descendants were heads of their clans, 22,200 mighty men of valor.

¹⁰ Finally the sons of Jediael:

Bilhan.

The sons of Bilhan:

Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar. ¹¹ All these were sons of Jediael, heads of their clans, mighty men of valor, 17,200 who were able to go out in the army for war. ¹² Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

¹³ The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

¹⁴ One of the sons of Manasseh was Asriel, whom she bore; his Aramean concubine bore Machir the father of Gilead. ¹⁵ Machir took a wife from Huppim and Shuppim. His sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

¹⁶ Machir’s wife Maacah bore a son and she named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. ¹⁷ Ulam’s son was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. ¹⁸ His sister Hammolecheth bore Ish-hod, Abiezer and Mahlah. ¹⁹ Shemida’s sons were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi and Aniam.

²⁰ The descendants of Ephraim:

Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, ²¹ Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son, also Ezer and Elead. The native-born men of Gath killed them because they came down to raid their cattle. ²² Their father Ephraim 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 and he called him Beriah^[a], because evil had befallen his house. ²⁴ His daughter was Sheerah, who built both lower and upper Beth-horon, and also Uzzen-sheerah. ²⁵ Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, 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 Beth-el and its villages, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its villages, as well as Shechem and its villages, as far as Aiah and its villages, ²⁹ and along the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, Dor and its villages. In these lived the children of Joseph son of Israel.

³⁰ The sons of Asher:

Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.

³¹ The sons of Beriah:

Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

³² Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer and Hotham, and their sister Shua.

³³ The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Asvath. These were the children of Japhlet.

³⁴ The sons of Shemer:

Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah and Aram.

³⁵ The sons of his brother Helem:

Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

³⁶ The sons of Zophah:

Suah, Harnepher, Shaul, Beri, Imrah, ³⁷ Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

³⁸ The sons of Jether:

Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

³⁹ The sons of Ulla:

Arah, Hanniel and Rizia. ⁴⁰ All these were the descendants of Asher, heads of the clans, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them recorded by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.

Descendants of Benjamin

8 Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel second, Ahrah third, ² Nohah the fourth, and Rapha fifth.

³ Bela’s sons were:

Addar, Gera, Abihud, ⁴ Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ⁵ Gera, Shephuphan and Huram.

⁶ These were the sons of Ehud—the heads of clans of the inhabitants of Geba, who were taken captive to Manahath:

⁷ Naaman, Ahijah and Gera—he took them captive and fathered Uzza and Ahihud.

⁸ Shaharaim fathered children in the country of Moab after divorcing his wives Hushim and Baara. ⁹ By his wife Hodesh he fathered Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, ¹⁰ Jeuz, Sachiah and Mirmah. These were his sons, family leaders.

¹¹ By Hushim he fathered Abitub and Elpaal.

¹² The sons of Elpaal:

Eber, Misham and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its villages; ¹³ Beriah and Shema, leaders of the clans living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath.

¹⁴ Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, ¹⁵ Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, ¹⁶ Michael, Ishpah, Joha were sons of Beriah.

¹⁷ Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber ¹⁸ Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were sons of Elpaal.

¹⁹ Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, ²⁰ Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, ²¹ Adaiah, Beraiah and Shimrath were sons of Shimei.

²² Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ²³ Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, ²⁴ Hananiah, Elam, Anthothiah, ²⁵ Iphdeiah and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.

²⁶ Shamsherai, Shechariah, Athaliah ²⁷ Jaareshiah, Elijah and Zichri were sons of Jeroham. ²⁸ These were leaders of the clans listed in their genealogies. These lived in Jerusalem.

²⁹ Now the father of Gibeon dwelt in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah, ³⁰ and his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, ³¹ Gedor, Ahio and Zecher ³² and Mikloth who fathered Shimeah. They lived with their relatives in Jerusalem, opposite their relatives.

³³ Ner fathered Kish and Kish fathered Saul. Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.

³⁴ Jonathan’s son was Merib-baal and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

³⁵ Micah’s sons:

Pithon, Melech, Taarea and Ahaz.

³⁶ Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth and Zimri, and Zimri fathered Moza, ³⁷ Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

³⁸ Azel had six sons and these were their names:

Azrikam, Bocru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah and Hanan—all these were sons of Azel.

³⁹ The sons of his brother Eshek:

Ulam his firstborn, Jeush second, and Eliphelet third. ⁴⁰ Now the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons and grandsons—150. All these were descendants of Benjamin.

Sailing for Rome

27 When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort. ² So we boarded a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, and we set out to sea—accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

³ The next day we set down at Sidon. Julius, treating Paul kindly, let him go to his friends to receive care. ⁴ Setting out to sea from there, we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. ⁵ When we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra in Lysia. ⁶ There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board.

⁷ Sailing slowly for a number of days, with difficulty we made it to Cnidus. As the wind did not allow us to go further, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone. ⁸ Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

⁹ Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was already dangerous because the Fast^[a] had already gone by, Paul kept warning them, ¹⁰ telling them, “Men, I can see that the voyage is about to end in disaster and great loss—not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives!”

¹¹ But the centurion was persuaded more by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was said by Paul. ¹² And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to set out to sea from there—if somehow they might reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing northeast and southeast, and spend the winter there.

Storm and Shipwreck

¹³ When the south wind blew gently, supposing they had obtained their purpose, they raised the anchor and started coasting along the shore by Crete. ¹⁴ But before long, a hurricane-force wind called “the Northeaster” swept down from the island. ¹⁵ When the ship was caught and could not face into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. ¹⁶ As we ran under the shelter of a small island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the dinghy. ¹⁷ When the crew had hoisted it up, they made use of ropes to undergird the ship. Then fearing they might run aground on the Syrtis,^[b] they let down the anchor and so were driven along. ¹⁸ But as we were violently battered by the storm, the next day they began throwing cargo overboard. ¹⁹ On the third day, they threw out the ship’s gear with their own hands. ²⁰ With neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm pressing on us, all hope of our survival was vanishing.

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Psalm 7

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