1 Chronicles 7:1–40

¹ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all. ² The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor. ³ The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs. ⁴ In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children. ⁵ Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies. ⁶ The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. ⁷ The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies. ⁸ The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons. ⁹ Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their families—20,200 mighty men of valor. ¹⁰ The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹ All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle. ¹² The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher. ¹³ The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum —the descendants of Bilhah. ¹⁴ The descendants of Manasseh: Through his Aramean concubine, Asriel, as well as Machir the father of Gilead. ¹⁵ Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters. ¹⁶ Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. ¹⁷ The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. ¹⁸ His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹ And these were the sons of Shemida: 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. Ezer and Elead were killed by the natives of Gath, because they went down to steal their livestock. ²² Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. ²³ And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house. ²⁴ His daughter was Sheerah, who…