Chapter 7

1. NOW the sons of Is-sa-char were, To-la, and Pu-ah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
2. And the sons of To-la; Uzzi, and Re-phai-ah, and Jer-i-el, and Jah-ma-i, and Jibsam, and She-mu-el, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
3. And the sons of Uzzi; Iz-ra-hi-ah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ish-i-ah, five: all of them chief men.
4. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
5. And their brethren among all the families of Is-sa-char were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
6. The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Be-cher, and Jed-i-a-el, three.
7. And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uz-zi-el, and Jer-i-moth, and I-ri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
8. And the sons of Be-cher; Ze-mi-ra, and Joash, and El-i-e-zer, and El-i-o-e-nai, and Omri, and Jer-i-moth, and A-bi-ah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
9. And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
10. The sons of Jed-i-a-el; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Je-ush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Che-na-a-nah, and Ze-than, and Thar-shish, and A-hi-sha-har.
11. All these the sons of Jed-i-a-el, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
12. Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hu-shim, the sons of A-her.
13. The sons of Naph-ta-li; Jah-zi-el, and Gu-ni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14. The sons of Ma-nas-seh; Ash-ri-el, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Ar-am-i-tess bare Ma-chir the father of Gil-e-ad:
15. And Ma-chir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Ma-a-chah;) and the name of the second was Ze-loph-e-had: and Zelophehad had daughters.
16. And Ma-a-chah the wife of Ma-chir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17. And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gil-e-ad, the son of Ma-chir, the son of Ma-nas-seh.
18. And his sister Ham-mo-le-keth bare I-shod, and A-bi-e-zer, and Ma-ha-lah.
19. And the sons of Shem-i-dah were, A-hi-an, and She-chem, and Lik-hi, and A-ni-am.
20. And the sons of E-phra-im; Shu-the-lah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and El-a-dah his son, and Tahath his son,
21. And Zabad his son, and Shu-the-lah his son, and Ezer, and El-e-ad, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
22. And E-phra-im their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
23. And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Be-ri-ah, because it went evil with his house.
24. (And his daughter was She-rah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uz-zen-she-rah.)
25. And Re-phah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Ta-han his son,
26. La-a-dan his son, Am-mi-hud his son, E-li-sha-ma his son,
27. Non his son, Je-hosh-u-a his son.
28. And their possessions and habitations were, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Na-a-ran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; she-chem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
29. And by the borders of the children of Ma-nas-seh, Beth-she-an and her towns, Ta-a-nach and her towns, Me-gid-do and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30. The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Is-u-ah, and Ish-u-ai, and Be-ri-ah, and Serah their sister.
31. And the sons of Be-ri-ah; Heber, and Mal-chi-el, who is the father of Bir-za-vith.
32. And Heber begat Japh-let, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shu-a their sister.
33. And the sons of Japh-let; Pa-sach, and Bim-hal, and Ash-vath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34. And the sons of Shamer; A-hi, and Rohgah, Je-hub-bah, and Aram.
35. And the sons of his brother Helem; Zo-phah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36. The sons of Zo-phah; Suah, and Har-ne-pher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37. Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beer-a.
38. And the sons of Jether; Je-phun-neh, and Pispah, and Ar-a.
39. And the sons of Ulla; Ar-ah, and Han-i-el, and Re-zi-a.
40. All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

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